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by rchinnis
04 May 2013, 06:07
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Win7-64 Intel RAID5 Recovery
Replies: 6
Views: 4508

Re: Win7-64 Intel RAID5 Recovery

Also, here's a copy of the log from the successful configuration / write. Just in case you guys see something else I need to take care of.



Fri May 3 13:45:53 2013
Command line: TestDisk

Incomplete multi sector transfer detected in $MFT.
ntfs_mft_load(): Failed.
Failed to load $MFT: Input/Output ...
by rchinnis
04 May 2013, 06:02
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Win7-64 Intel RAID5 Recovery
Replies: 6
Views: 4508

Re: Win7-64 Intel RAID5 Recovery

Ok, so, after doing some research online, I noticed that these GPT disks are supposed to have a 32- or 128-MB Microsoft Reserved partition at the beginning of the disk depending on size. For me, it's 128-MB.

So, I deleted the MS Data partition at the beginning of the disk (spanned 100 MB from 6400 ...
by rchinnis
03 May 2013, 22:00
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Win7-64 Intel RAID5 Recovery
Replies: 6
Views: 4508

Re: Win7-64 Intel RAID5 Recovery

Here's what Disk Management looks like

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by rchinnis
03 May 2013, 18:41
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Win7-64 Intel RAID5 Recovery
Replies: 6
Views: 4508

Re: Win7-64 Intel RAID5 Recovery

Fiona,

Thanks for the reply. I think I'm getting closer! One problem was that I was selecting Intel instead of GPT for the partition type. I have since selected GPT and verified that the boot sectors are ok and that I can list the files in TestDisk. I have written the partition table, but there ...
by rchinnis
02 May 2013, 16:08
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Win7-64 Intel RAID5 Recovery
Replies: 6
Views: 4508

Re: Win7-64 Intel RAID5 Recovery

A bit of additional info. Here's what Windows 7 is seeing in Disk Management

Disk 1: Basic: 5589.04 GB: Online
129MB Unallocated
(E:) 2048.00 GB RAW Healthy (Primary Partition)
3540.92 GB Unallocated
by rchinnis
01 May 2013, 05:56
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Win7-64 Intel RAID5 Recovery
Replies: 6
Views: 4508

Win7-64 Intel RAID5 Recovery

In short, I updated my ASUS BIOS, and 2 of my 4 disks were removed from my Intel RAID5 array. The array was not a boot drive. I was using it simply as a data drive. I deleted the array and recreated it identically to the previous array, and am hoping to use TestDisk to make this disk available to ...