Strange RAID
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:22 pm
Hi,
I end up with R-Studio after trying other solutions and this software may be the one that might solve my issue.
I have two identical disks that were joined into a logical disk using XP's dynamic disk feature. Each had 1.6TB and together they created a 3.2TB RAID-1 (stripe) volume. Suddenly, one of them started with the problems and here I am now.
Right now, this is the current situation at my XP Disk Manager: I have a "unreadable" disk which should be the missing disk in that RAID.
When using R-Studio, I get the following info:
RorkeGalaxy #1SCSI - Which is the "unreadable" disk in windows RorkeGalaxy #2SCSI - Which contains the RAID information And strangelly, another Disk1, that holds only information about the LDM that should be on RorkeGalaxy #1SCSI. Disk1 is not a physical disk, and I guess something may have gone really bad with RorkeGalaxy #1SCSI in order to appear something like this in R-Studio.
I've tried to manually create the Virtual RAID (using RorkeGalaxy #1SCSI and RorkeGalaxy #2SCSI) and I do see some of the folders and files, but whenever I attempted to visualize something, R-Studio would tell me that the file could not be opened.
I ran the scan procedure on RorkeGalaxy #1SCSI and it was also able to find information about my previous partition (3.2TB), but I also had the same results when trying to view anything from there.
I believe there must be something wrong with LDM or MFT on the first Rorke disk, but I don't seem to know how to fix it. I believe it is necessary to perform an additional step prior to build the RAID and try to recover my content.
Does anyone know if this is doable?
I end up with R-Studio after trying other solutions and this software may be the one that might solve my issue.
I have two identical disks that were joined into a logical disk using XP's dynamic disk feature. Each had 1.6TB and together they created a 3.2TB RAID-1 (stripe) volume. Suddenly, one of them started with the problems and here I am now.
Right now, this is the current situation at my XP Disk Manager: I have a "unreadable" disk which should be the missing disk in that RAID.
When using R-Studio, I get the following info:
RorkeGalaxy #1SCSI - Which is the "unreadable" disk in windows RorkeGalaxy #2SCSI - Which contains the RAID information And strangelly, another Disk1, that holds only information about the LDM that should be on RorkeGalaxy #1SCSI. Disk1 is not a physical disk, and I guess something may have gone really bad with RorkeGalaxy #1SCSI in order to appear something like this in R-Studio.
I've tried to manually create the Virtual RAID (using RorkeGalaxy #1SCSI and RorkeGalaxy #2SCSI) and I do see some of the folders and files, but whenever I attempted to visualize something, R-Studio would tell me that the file could not be opened.
I ran the scan procedure on RorkeGalaxy #1SCSI and it was also able to find information about my previous partition (3.2TB), but I also had the same results when trying to view anything from there.
I believe there must be something wrong with LDM or MFT on the first Rorke disk, but I don't seem to know how to fix it. I believe it is necessary to perform an additional step prior to build the RAID and try to recover my content.
Does anyone know if this is doable?