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Hi Fiona,

Restorer Ultimate Pro was able to successfully recover all the files on the drive.

Thank you so much for your help! You are a life saver!

Saurabh

Running the restore using Restorer Ultimate Pro. Looks promising. I will keep you posted.

Saurabh

Rebuild BS completed. Still not able to list files. Tried Repair MFT as well. It says it cannot be repaired.

Is there anything else that I should try? Or should I just start looking at data recovery software?

Saurabh

It is still running. If I am not able to list the data, what data recovery software would you recommend?

Saurabh

Update - I created the spanned volume. It automatically prompted me that the disks will be converted to Dynamic.

Output from Advanced -> Boot

Drive X: - 966 GB / 899 GiB - CHS 117486 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
P NTFS 0 0 1 117486 189 15 1887424512

Boot sector
Status: Bad

Backup ...

Question - The disks are marked as "Basic". Should I convert them to "Dynamic" first and then create the spanned volume?

Yes, the size of 966 GB is correct.

I have requested a copy of the original disks from the SAN administrator (had made some changes to the last one which I wasn't comfortable with). That takes a couple of hours. Will upload a snapshot of advanced -> boot once it is available.

Saurabh

Don't run TestDisk Analyse but Advanced / Boot.

There is no option for Boot under Advanced. Please see below.


TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Drive Z: - 966 GB / 899 GiB - CHS 117486 255 63

Partition Start ...

It is a spanned volume. The 300 GB disk was setup first and then the 600 GB was added to expand the volume.

The main thing I need to do right now is extract the data from the 600 GB disk, whichever way possible. I already have the data from the 300 GB disk.

Saurabh

Hi Fiona,

Thank you for the reply.

When you say "Re-create the dynamic volume exactly like before", can you please elaborate what exactly you mean?

I had the SAN administrator create a block copy of the disks and presented to the server. They showed up as "Basic" and "Un-allocated". I converted ...