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Well, thanks for the help, I have given up on recovery as of now and will format the drives.

/Micke

Just did a recovery of a JPEG file with very interesting result. most of the files was not viewable at all, but the ones that are might give you some clue to what has happened?

PartitionGuru recovery example.GIF

Quite interesting as all data seems to be in there, just not in the right place ...

Just re-booted and ran TestDisk. Partition is found, boot-sector and back up boot sector ok. Both MFT and MFT mirror bad, rapair command gives back "Failed to repair them". Any idears on what to do?

Having a look in the Windows disk manager, this is what I see now:

disk manager 3.GIF

I don´t ...

Thanks Fiona, but I think that I am but-slammed this time. Have done a complete analysis of the partition with R-studio, it detects multiple filesystems with varying size of partitions. One of the detected partitions seems to be the correct one, and I can browse the file system for that partition ...

Sry, didn't see it! :)
Looks like your RAID is not initialized.
Windows can only handle initialized RAID or disk.
This behavior is since W2k.
TestDisk windows executable gets their infos from the OS.
Also it should be GPT.
How many partitions did you use on your RAID?

The raid is initialized ...

Fiona wrote:10 TB last ages!
Would it be possible to get a screen from your Windows disk management console?
You don't need to interrupt your scan.

See my earlier post, diskmanager included.
/Micke

For some reason the pictures does not show up in the correct order in the post above, but I guess you get it.

This is the latest status from the deep check:

The partition seems to be the correct one, the label at least are correct (Data1). I´m not sure if writing it is a good idear, could there be a secondary GTP-header on the disk that is ok and that can be found during the deep check?

Could you explain a bit on what you mean with doing a boot sector ...

Just wanted to update the status, this is the current result from the ongoing deep scan of the drive:

deep scan so far.GIF

My guess is that the MAC HFS-stuff is from a sparce bundle created by iBackup in one of the folders of the partition for a mac book backup I made?

If the NTFS filesystem is ...

I apologize for butting in on this forum, but can anyone tell me how to post a question without using Post Reply like I am doing here? The instructions in FAQ say:
To post a new topic in a forum, click the relevant button on either the forum or topic screens.
Where is the button?
thanks so much for ...