by eleven29 » Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:29 am
I am in the process of recovering files from a braindead 4TB WD Sharespace in the standard Raid 5 setup. From what I can gather R-Studio found all my missing files and they are being transferred as I type this.
Here's what I did:
- create an image of each of the four drives, labeling them as they were labeled in the rack: 4,3,2,1 from top to bottom.
- create a virtual raid array in R-Studio
- load the images and add only the largest of the four partitions (partition 4 in my case) of every image to the virtual array. The order of the images has to correspond to the order in the Sharespace: image 4 comes first, then 3, 2, 1.
- Setup the virtual raid as a standard Raid 5, 64 KB blocksize, block order left synchronous. I kept the offset set to 0.
- Scan the array. Abort the scan after it detected filesystem and superblock data.
- Open the newly discovered partition and find all my files and folders. Open a few of the bigger image and video files and be relieved that they are not corrupt
- recover the files to an external drive
I cannot (yet) say with 100% certainty that I'll get each and every file back uncorrupted but this is by far the most success I had on my months long quest of recovering the data.
Hope it helps!
I am in the process of recovering files from a braindead 4TB WD Sharespace in the standard Raid 5 setup. From what I can gather R-Studio found all my missing files and they are being transferred as I type this.
Here's what I did:
[list][*]create an image of each of the four drives, labeling them as they were labeled in the rack: 4,3,2,1 from top to bottom.
[*]create a virtual raid array in R-Studio
[*]load the images and add only the largest of the four partitions (partition 4 in my case) of every image to the virtual array. The order of the images has to correspond to the order in the Sharespace: image 4 comes first, then 3, 2, 1.
[*]Setup the virtual raid as a standard Raid 5, 64 KB blocksize, block order left synchronous. I kept the offset set to 0.
[*]Scan the array. Abort the scan after it detected filesystem and superblock data.
[*]Open the newly discovered partition and find all my files and folders. Open a few of the bigger image and video files and be relieved that they are not corrupt
[*]recover the files to an external drive[/list]
I cannot (yet) say with 100% certainty that I'll get each and every file back uncorrupted but this is by far the most success I had on my months long quest of recovering the data.
Hope it helps!