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Any suggestions on how to restore a super block from partition that is found via a deep scan? Restoring the super blocks from the current partition won't help.

I'm sure I recreated the RAID correctly. I had tried using the foremost tool and I was able to at least recover some files, however with the foremost tool most of the files are corrupt, it only recovers certain files that it knows the signature for and there are no file names.

What I'm afraid of is ...

Some more information. I think I may have created the RAID array right on top of the underlying partitioned drives. So I don't think there is a "partition" per se on my /dev/md5 device. Have I totally messed myself up?

So a little more progress. The latest test version of the program does allow me to change the cylinders to be > 8 TiB. I ran a deeper scan again and it came back with the same partitions as before. When I try to list files in it I get:

TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, May 2012
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I was hoping someone might be able to help me recover an EXT4 partition. I lost 2 drives in my RAID5 the other day and trying to find some instructions online led me to hose the existing file system. For some reason, all the tools complain that my partition is larger than the space allowed, not by ...