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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 11:51 am
by GORDON
Giving this one more shot. I've reattached the suspect RAID 0 drives, and I have the new drive attached on which there's an option to directly restore RAID 0 files. Remember when I overwrote my C drive boot sector? Now I have a clean drive. I'll try it this way. If it fails, it fails and I'm done.
Currently have 5 HDDs attached to my PC. That's a record for me.
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:17 pm
by TheCatt
GORDON wrote:Currently have 5 HDDs attached to my PC. That's a record for me.
Noob.
I had 15 in my previous configuration. Currently back down to 10.
Hell, my laptop has 3.
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:57 pm
by GORDON
Never had the need. 3 has been the max, with 2 in RAID config. I haven't run massive file farms either, though, merely big ones.
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 1:32 pm
by TheCatt
I currently run 2 RAID 1 SSD boot drives + 8 drive RAID 5. 7 drives in the RAID with hot spare.
Admittedly... I have a lot of spare TB right now. Probably 10TB empty.
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 1:39 pm
by GORDON
RAID recovery currently 84% done.
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 2:06 pm
by GORDON
Welp....
Before the software started writing the data to the clean drive, it "locked" it and took the drive offline. I immediately saw it disappear from file manager.
It didn't bring it back online when it was done.
The only way I can view the contents is to mount it.
Once mounted it wont let me see anything because it says it isn't formatted, which it was before the recovery started.
So I guess this is a fail.
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 10:20 pm
by GORDON
Since I have all the drives connected I was thikning of trying again with different software, but I think I am going to give up. Only the program I was using seems to be free, and I don't feel like paying $100+ to try different software. Haven't really lost much, and am tired of messing with it.
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 11:34 am
by TPRJones
Wait ... give up? You mean let it beat you?
You can do that?
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 3:28 pm
by GORDON
For all I know, the data on the drives is actually corrupted. The two images I was able to pull suggested that, since I couldn't open, view, or mount the images the images.