Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

Thanks Alt

I think you're right! The block size is definitely correct, so there must be something trickier going on.

Thanks for all your help.
Ben

Hi Alt

I've created the virtual RAID and run scans with all five disks and the original 3. Neither the folder structure or any correctly named files are found, although there are various fragments with numeric names that show up.

I guess this hasn't worked or I've got something wrong with the ...

Thanks - that's great.

I'll get back to you when I've done the scans.

OK, thanks.

What about the parent sector numbers and where we go from there? Can you also let me know about the 'numbers of rows' field.

Thanks
Ben

Hi Alt

So...I've got the the point of completing the first consistency check (on the full 5-disk set). Everything green except for a small strip at the start of the blocks - here, hovering over a block gives the message that 356791 are OK, 8 failed. That's for sectors 0-720,895.

Before I continue ...

Thank you - that makes it clear to me...

I'll come back to you when I've got all that sorted out.

Many thanks
Ben

Hi Alt

Can you get back to me so I can run the checks that you suggested.

Thanks
Ben

Hi Alt

Just to follow up...the scan has now completed and I see the following in Device view:
Virtual volumes set 1 with the following partitions:
EFI System Partition
The original data partition
Extra Found Files
Recognised2

If I right click and select Open Drive Files , the original partition ...

Thank you. The cost of data recovery for this size of RAID (12TB) makes it impossible for me to go to a company to do this, unfortunately.

I just want to make sure that I've understood a couple of the things you've said correctly...

Second, create a virtual RAID out of the 5 (new and old) disks ...

Oh dear. I was hoping you wouldn't say that!

I can see some of the files - maybe 30% and some of the folder structure. Almost all the data on the disk are video files, but I've only been able to preview some of the smaller ones - up to about 1GB. The larger files that make up 95% of the data are 4 ...