shaun wrote:
Why do people with less than home user knowledge have access to a server?!
Because mostly they don't pay for the damage, "Mr. Jones will fix it!"
Anyway if it was a RAID5 and the OS was fully reinstalled the original RAID structure was overwritten, block size etc. It is a tough job. Every drive should be analyzed and the whole RAID set in turn. Anyway don't panic : I was able to reconstruct a destroyed and partailly overwritten RAID but it was an awful job and it did cost a lot of $ to the customer. In my case one of the drives failed and the customer tried to fix the drive while keeping it on the RAID set. Not a clever idea.
P.S. "he should be prepared to bite his own ass" ... LOL... we say he should be prepared to eat his own... er... family jewels in case of male customers. (a bit of humour to point out the differences in saying the same thing around the world)