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by AmitDeshwar
24 Mar 2012, 05:22
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Virtual Solaris ZFS raw disks
Replies: 5
Views: 10228

Re: Virtual Solaris ZFS raw disks

In case anyone has the same problem as me in the future:
I managed to fix the problem using dd.
After examining the disks, it appeared that the Windows initialization only overwrote the MBR and left the rest of the GPT intact. Luckily in disks that use GPT, the MBR doesn't contain anything useful or ...
by AmitDeshwar
23 Mar 2012, 02:48
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Virtual Solaris ZFS raw disks
Replies: 5
Views: 10228

Re: Virtual Solaris ZFS raw disks

Even after manually adding the partition I still received the "write_sun_part" error.
What should I do?
by AmitDeshwar
19 Mar 2012, 15:06
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Virtual Solaris ZFS raw disks
Replies: 5
Views: 10228

Re: Virtual Solaris ZFS raw disks

Okay, that's good news that it can properly detect them.
As additional information, these disks are part of a RAIDZ configuration, with the whole disk being used by ZFS. Quick search finds the following partition:
2 P Whole disk 0 0 1 121601 80 63 1953525168
I tried using the write command, but ...
by AmitDeshwar
15 Mar 2012, 01:54
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Virtual Solaris ZFS raw disks
Replies: 5
Views: 10228

Virtual Solaris ZFS raw disks

Hi

I'm running a Solaris 11 VM (using Vmware Workstation) on a Win7 host. It looks like I may have accidentally "initialized" my ZFS disks in Windows (which were being accessed as raw drives from the solaris VM). Now, in Solaris the disks simply report "cannot open" and format cannot see the ...