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by hachi
13 Dec 2020, 18:24
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: RAID5 partition recovery - how important is disk order when recreating volume?
Replies: 3
Views: 1386

Re: RAID5 partition recovery - how important is disk order when recreating volume?



The order is crucial. It's noted somewhere - either in some config files or on the disks themselves.


so in my case it would be simple as swapping a>b>c to b>a>c in the raid menu, rebuild the volume and scan should find it right away? the third drive is new and should not contain data at all ...
by hachi
13 Dec 2020, 16:31
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: RAID5 partition recovery - how important is disk order when recreating volume?
Replies: 3
Views: 1386

RAID5 partition recovery - how important is disk order when recreating volume?

My situation is this - 1 out of 3 drives crash in 3x2TB raid5, which reset cmos config on reboot and cause intel RST to trash the partition on remaining 2 drives. Now replaced with new drive and mobo, my goal is to recover the remaining data and rebuild it.

Following the method to delete and ...
by hachi
13 Nov 2014, 22:31
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Recovering the MSR on GPT/NTFS RAID5 Array
Replies: 2
Views: 3876

Re: Recovering the MSR on GPT/NTFS RAID5 Array

no trace of it, here is the log which shows only main partitions, they are always found right away


TestDisk 6.14, Data Recovery Utility, July 2013
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler: GCC 4.7, Cygwin 1007.17
Compilation date ...
by hachi
13 Nov 2014, 00:12
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Recovering the MSR on GPT/NTFS RAID5 Array
Replies: 2
Views: 3876

Recovering the MSR on GPT/NTFS RAID5 Array

I have recently recovered 3 partitions from a 3x2TB RAID5 array (thank you btw) with a quick scan using TestDisk, after the raid controller decided to trash the file system during an unrelated hardware upgrade.

The remaining issue now is it still hasn't found this 128MB system reserved partition ...