Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

When the drives are plugged in to Windows 8, they have the MS reserved partitions and the Storage pool partition. The storage pool partition usually comes up as an unknown format (probably due to the incompatibility). It doesn't show that it has any free space.

One of the things I've noticed is ...

Hi All,

Sorry that I've gone dark for so long. I had sent out the drives to be evaluated, and the diagnosis came back that it was a purely logical issue. No physical damage to the drive. Unfortunately, I was told that the data could not be recovered without developing custom software to piece the ...

Here is a screenshot of the scan results ...

Just a quick update ...

No luck as of yet with the recovery effort. Reclaime file recovery software will allow me to save out all of the files, but it does not support deduplication and therefore saves a number of files with empty data. This leads me to believe that the disks are not physically ...

SMART status is Good on all 6 drives.

If I had to guess, I would say it's complaining because it thinks one of the disks is missing or doesn't quite understand the parity structure. Not sure though.