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by diskresc
02 Oct 2019, 10:20
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Search MFT number now surpassed expected size?
Replies: 9
Views: 11109

Re: Search MFT number now surpassed expected size?

The cabinette is connected to another machine when the 6th disk crashed, i am now trying to simulate a crash on another 8tb drive that wasn't present in the cabinette when it all started, i cannot get it to crash so mabye the cabinette isn't at fault anyway. My guess is whatever damage was done when ...
by diskresc
02 Oct 2019, 07:42
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Search MFT number now surpassed expected size?
Replies: 9
Views: 11109

Re: Search MFT number now surpassed expected size?

Holy smokes i just lost another drive, it's the cabinette that is corrupting the drives... i have no idea what to do.

I inserted a working drive into the cabinette in order to access some files, i did a chkdsk on the drive first:

Volume D: (\Device\TrueCryptVolumeD) is healthy. No action is ...
by diskresc
02 Oct 2019, 03:04
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Search MFT number now surpassed expected size?
Replies: 9
Views: 11109

Re: Search MFT number now surpassed expected size?

So after running a full rebuildBS on one of the drives it does absolutely nothing, i cannot list files after it gives me the same messages as before. (This time it was run on the unencrypted volume).

I try to decrypt the volume but truecrypt tells me the volume is not encrypted even though it's ...
by diskresc
01 Oct 2019, 13:58
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Search MFT number now surpassed expected size?
Replies: 9
Views: 11109

Re: Search MFT number now surpassed expected size?



Thanks for the reply cgrenier.

Do you think there's a bigger chance of MFT recovery if i decrypt the drive first or is that pointless?

As long as you apply your recovery on the unencrypted volume it should not make any difference.
Decrypting a volume results in a heave drive load on the ...
by diskresc
30 Sep 2019, 20:27
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Search MFT number now surpassed expected size?
Replies: 9
Views: 11109

Re: Search MFT number now surpassed expected size?

Thanks for the reply cgrenier.

Do you think there's a bigger chance of MFT recovery if i decrypt the drive first or is that pointless? I'm currently running GetDataBack on one of the drives to see if it can find any MFT records, right now it's at 60% it's found 300 000 files which doesn't make ...
by diskresc
30 Sep 2019, 12:46
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Search MFT number now surpassed expected size?
Replies: 9
Views: 11109

8 Disk USB Drive critical failure, 5 out of 8 disks MFT corrupt simultaneously?

Hello,

I am under distress, here's my scenario. iIve been using a Startech 8 disk usb enclousure in jbod setting and encrypted every disk with truecrypt (full disk encryption).

Yesterday i initiated a large data copy via explorer from one usb drive to another usb drive (inside the same enclosure ...
by diskresc
30 Sep 2019, 05:09
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Search MFT number now surpassed expected size?
Replies: 9
Views: 11109

Search MFT number now surpassed expected size?

Hi,

I have a 8 disk usb storage unit that suddenly ran into issues when i was moving a lot of files around between disks on the same usb interface, lessons learned i guess... But 2 disks out of 8 have the same problem, when mounted in truecrypt they mount but it's impossible to access the drive.

I ...