Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

Further update - r-studio keeps experiencing crashes, from straight away up to 4 or 5 mins into a check.

Thank you for your very detailed response.

Just a few more query s

Is it usual for a RAID 5 to show empty space? My RAID is showing 2 partitions 31.5kb and 62.75mb respectively and empty space 12.07gb.

Also I chose the detail scan option on the 12.07gb and it is has not move from 0% in over an ...

Apologies i seem to be answering my own problems :D I am now on the box using the safe GUI.

I have a 191gb empty space that i am currently scanning. It seems to be finding files (docs, jpegs etc) so all looks very good (fingers crossed).

Is there a way after the drives have been scanned to ...

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I have changed the setting for the BIOS RAIDs in the start up option on the create boot disk and it boots in the non gui interface. Is there something i should do/check to try and get it to boot in one of the GUI modes? as the text interface is quite daunting?


Once again - thank you for your ...

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Ignore my post above - i have used my eyes and found it

Thank you for your prompt help.

I may be being thick but at what point can i access the Startup Media Troubleshooting Options?

When creating a live cd i do not see a point to enter an advanced set up.

Once again thank you for your help.

Thank you for your suggestion - i will check when i get the RAID controller details. Just for guidance, initializing and getting to a stage where you can use the software, minutes usually?

Thank you once again

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I am working with a dead Dell Poweredge 6600 server with a 7 drive raid 5 set up. I have used the R-Studio emergency gui disk on the dead server and it goes past the select which interface you want to run R-studio (I just let it select the default one). It is at the initializing screen where it ...