Issue with data recovery on an NTFS (RAID array)
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:14 pm
Hi,
I'm trying to recover some lost partitions from a RAID array, and when I run R-Studio scan, it DOES find the right partition (and a lot more partitions), and even the directory structure on that partition is correct. However, when I try to recover any files from that file system, almost all of the files are "corrupt". In looking at the "properties" for the partition in question, it seems a number of the parameters, like Partition offset, Start etc are negative numbers, which obviously is not right.
Since, it is finding the right directory structure and the partition, I'm assuming that the data can probably BE recovered, but something is wrong with the partition geometry or offset or something.
As background, the array in question is a 10TB raid array, and the raid card sees it fine, Windows sees it "technically" fine, but it is not showing the partitions that should have been there. The array is a RAID5 array and was recently rebuilt as one of the disks had crashed. The array rebuild went fine, but post rebuild, Windows seems to have lost the existing partitions. Nothing has been written to the array since then, and it is not a bootable array, it just stores data.
I'm running this on Windows 7 32 bit. The array is not what Windows is booting from, it's booting from a separate disk (which is just fine). Any ideas or help? Please?
Thanks.
Kap.
I'm trying to recover some lost partitions from a RAID array, and when I run R-Studio scan, it DOES find the right partition (and a lot more partitions), and even the directory structure on that partition is correct. However, when I try to recover any files from that file system, almost all of the files are "corrupt". In looking at the "properties" for the partition in question, it seems a number of the parameters, like Partition offset, Start etc are negative numbers, which obviously is not right.
Since, it is finding the right directory structure and the partition, I'm assuming that the data can probably BE recovered, but something is wrong with the partition geometry or offset or something.
As background, the array in question is a 10TB raid array, and the raid card sees it fine, Windows sees it "technically" fine, but it is not showing the partitions that should have been there. The array is a RAID5 array and was recently rebuilt as one of the disks had crashed. The array rebuild went fine, but post rebuild, Windows seems to have lost the existing partitions. Nothing has been written to the array since then, and it is not a bootable array, it just stores data.
I'm running this on Windows 7 32 bit. The array is not what Windows is booting from, it's booting from a separate disk (which is just fine). Any ideas or help? Please?
Thanks.
Kap.