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by rexyboy
Mon Dec 17, 2018 4:39 pm
Forum: RAID Recovery
Topic: RAID5 - Reverse RAID Required?
Replies: 6
Views: 37833

Re: RAID5 - Reverse RAID Required?

The advice re cloning the failing drive before commencing is obviously solid.

A bit of a summary of the scans:

Scan 1: All 5 of the 5 disk array present. One of the disks had errors. Most of the file system was available. I think some of the items with red crosses were actually deleted files etc ...
by rexyboy
Sun Dec 16, 2018 4:15 pm
Forum: RAID Recovery
Topic: RAID5 - Reverse RAID Required?
Replies: 6
Views: 37833

Re: RAID5 - Reverse RAID Required?

One thought I had was that I need to do a scan before it will let the 'reverse raid' the disk level. Does anyone know if this is required?

From the first screen shot I included you can see what I right clicked on. I think this is the right level.

When I did the scan the first time I was able to ...
by rexyboy
Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:43 am
Forum: RAID Recovery
Topic: RAID5 - Reverse RAID Required?
Replies: 6
Views: 37833

RAID5 - Reverse RAID Required?

Hi,
I am in the process of trying to recover files from my 5 disk RAID5 array. The drives come from a QNAP NAS which is having a problem with more than one drive. Yesterday I managed to assemble a Virtual Block RAID array using the disks based on data from ReclaiMe. I could see pretty much the ...