Ho-hum.... Hey guys I need some help with this one. I have 2 RAID 0's in my system, 2x Intel Postville SSD's for my system and 2x Samsung F1 spinpoint 750GB HDDs for my data. The Data RAID contained 3 partitons. Yesterday my data raid collapsed and is now to be found as a 1.3 TB drive in RAW format. I tried a recovery program (Diskinternals RAID Recovery it's called) that had to run for a whole night and indeed finding everything back that was on there only to tell me when I selected the files I needed to keep and pressed save that it would only do the save trick when I gave em $250,- So I know there is still recoverable data, complete with file trees and I could even see my former partitions in this program. However I do have a hard time finding a recovery tool that will get me the stuff back without paying a ton of money.. I seem to have a couple of ways of approaching this issue: * I can try to rebuild that RAID array as it was so I can access my old partitions/filestructure or, * I can try to salvage the data and save that to a 3rd disk (I got a nice 2TB spare sitting here).. If anybody has any idea what my next step should be, or a tip for a good (but free) RAID recovery or file recovery tool... motherboard is an Asus Sabertooth 55i with an P55 Intel chipset and an Intel RAID controller on it any suggestions?
Not a clue on the raid recovery tools, but I'd back up anything you can to that TB and rebuilt your array.
No possibility to backup now.. I now the files are retrievable for I've seen em recovered. I just need a way to save them.
I've seen this one as well, I'll let it run for a night but I think that when it's finished it's gonna tell me to run ReclaiMe File Recovery, and I don't think that one is free.. but I will give it a try fosho.
This is just sooo true! I always have a backup of the really, really, really important stuff, come to think of it... I don't actually own any really, really, really important data.. I like to thank you for your input anyway but if you would ponder on what's up, I'll try to be more clear than I was in my OP. RAID collapsed, I've seen the data (files, directories, partitions) still exists through a recovery tool, have not been able to salvage (yet) cuz I did not want to pay $250,- for some bogus data collection that I have mostly on backup anyway. The thing is: It's there, I can see it and I want it. It's not about the data, it's about the salvage, the learning of a new trick of seeing what's possible or impossible. Maybe I should not have named the topic "RAID Collapsed", which sounds very negativsy indeed, but "Dawning Opportunity for Enlightment" or "Chance to Improve 1337 Life H4X0r ftw!". I had a huge part of my porcelain clown pictures on that drive(s), nevertheless this one is for u bender: (Oh btw.. that array was striped for the fact that it was used mostly for write intensive hdd usage like collecting downloads, repairing, unraring and Fraps recording, not for definitive storage purposes.)
ReclaiMe did recover the boundaries/structure of my array, only to refer to a paid second piece of software for retrieval. It did how ever come with a couple of 3rd party programs and specified pretty neatly how to implement that data in such. I found a stolen version of Zero Assumption Recovery 9.1(love the name btw) and I'm currently copying 101073 recovered files to a 2TB... Let's see what happens..
Yeah some like that... 99.9% of the files I had is recovered and saved. Although I gotta admit that 100% of those files resemble the same kinda mess as a steak that went through a meatgrinder and got sown back together as a steak.. pretty useless.
As said, this is soooooo true! Let this be a warning to all of you kids! So if you have 2 fast identical disks and a RAID controller to spare next to your default data storage and back up only use it for INvalueable data, like like large downloads, stuff that needs unraring in large quantities, maybe some replaceable project files or some other crap that you just want to have fast access to and dont want to bother your data storage for. Be smart!
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