Raid-5 wrong rebuild - recovery
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:38 pm
Hi..
I have situation, what can be called a stupid mistake..
I did set up my raid-5 on Windows 7.. 4x2TB drives.. so total size was something around 5+TB..
then I had a problem running one software on Win7 and rebooted my PC to Windows XP.. forgot to turn off my drives on RAID.. so when I got WinXP running, I noticed rebuilding of my Raid going on.. but size was not 5+TB, but 2TB only.. I cancelled rebuild somewhere on 1 or 2%.. so I hope most of data is still somewhere on those disks..
Raid was built on Promise FastTrack TX4310
Disks were ST32000540AS (Seagate 2TB)
any tips how should I start this rebuild/recovery? I am currently using Linux Mint 10 (Ubuntu)
What hardware/software I need?
currently I see on Disk1 following Partitions:
Part1 - Start 31.50 KB - Size 376.49 MB
Part2 - Start 376.52 MB - Size 133.35MB
Part3 - Start 509.88 MB - Size 558.17 GB
Part4 - Start 558.66 GB - Size 1.27 TB
Best Regards
Eduard
tau12est @ Skype
tau12 @ uis.ee
I have situation, what can be called a stupid mistake..
I did set up my raid-5 on Windows 7.. 4x2TB drives.. so total size was something around 5+TB..
then I had a problem running one software on Win7 and rebooted my PC to Windows XP.. forgot to turn off my drives on RAID.. so when I got WinXP running, I noticed rebuilding of my Raid going on.. but size was not 5+TB, but 2TB only.. I cancelled rebuild somewhere on 1 or 2%.. so I hope most of data is still somewhere on those disks..
Raid was built on Promise FastTrack TX4310
Disks were ST32000540AS (Seagate 2TB)
any tips how should I start this rebuild/recovery? I am currently using Linux Mint 10 (Ubuntu)
What hardware/software I need?
currently I see on Disk1 following Partitions:
Part1 - Start 31.50 KB - Size 376.49 MB
Part2 - Start 376.52 MB - Size 133.35MB
Part3 - Start 509.88 MB - Size 558.17 GB
Part4 - Start 558.66 GB - Size 1.27 TB
Best Regards
Eduard
tau12est @ Skype
tau12 @ uis.ee