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by skypickle
Sat Oct 19, 2024 9:42 am
Forum: RAID Recovery
Topic: Can bad sectors be excluded from a drive image?
Replies: 1
Views: 152428

Can bad sectors be excluded from a drive image?

I have a bad drive from a RAID 5 array. 4 sectors bad.
Is there a way to find out which files the bad sectors belong to?
Can I then ignore those sectors from imaging ?

This way I can reconstruct the array and know which files are corrupt.
by skypickle
Sat Oct 19, 2024 9:37 am
Forum: RAID Recovery
Topic: basic RAID5 recovery question [SOLVED]
Replies: 2
Views: 123235

Re: basic RAID5 recovery question [solved]

after some reading, I realized that these 2 kb files are aborted attempts at imaging. Obviously the disk could not be read.
I wish there were a way to find out which files the bad sectors belonged to.
I could then ignore those sectors from imaging (possible?)
and know which files are corrupt.
by skypickle
Sat Oct 19, 2024 9:35 am
Forum: RAID Recovery
Topic: proper way to make images?
Replies: 0
Views: 119697

proper way to make images?

I have 5 drives in a RAID 5 array. Their contents look like this:
Drives.jpg
The first drive is the failing one and its partitions are only 2kb.
Obviously read errors prevented it from being imaged.

In the last 4 drives, the partitions appear to be the same?
Which of these partitions do I need to ...
by skypickle
Fri Oct 18, 2024 7:12 pm
Forum: RAID Recovery
Topic: basic RAID5 recovery question [SOLVED]
Replies: 2
Views: 123235

Re: basic RAID5 recovery question

welll i found out that this drive is actually the bad one in my array. Restarting R studio and reinserting the drive allowed me to create images of each of the three volumes (but for some reason the volume numbers keep incrementing)

I get three files each of which is only 2kb
HarddiskVolume32.rdr ...
by skypickle
Fri Oct 18, 2024 7:00 pm
Forum: RAID Recovery
Topic: basic RAID5 recovery question [SOLVED]
Replies: 2
Views: 123235

basic RAID5 recovery question [SOLVED]

I read the manual here:

https://www.r-studio.com/Unformat_Help/volumesetsandraids.html

Step 1 is fine, it creates 'virtual block raid 1'
over in the raid parameters panel the only choice in the dropdown is raid0. Raid5 is grayed out.

Still, I forged ahead and inserted the first hard drive of my 5 ...