Help with raid1 array broken, encrypted with Trucrypt

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ease
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Help with raid1 array broken, encrypted with Trucrypt

#1 Post by ease »

I had problems with my Marvell 9128 raid controller, which contained a raid 1 array of (2) 2 TB discs. It was a single volume, that I had encrypted with Trucrypt. I believe it was NTFS. I had updated the firmware on the raid controller (stupid me) and all of a suddent my OS (win8) could not see the device any longer.

In an attempt to recover the data, I broke the raid1 array from the BIOS firmware. I believe I accidentally deleted the MBR record upon doing so.

Windows now can see two individual discs with no allocations.

If I run testdisk on the first hdd, it shows what I think are two fat partitions, at small sizes, like 250gb. I need to go through and screen shot the process again.

At some point, it had created a volume on the disk that was small, like 150gb. Obviously not what I was trying to achieve. Right now it is running a scan that looks like this :

http://i.imgur.com/Lp2nLO7.jpg

I really am not familiar with this kind of recovery or the physics of hard drives and their partitions. I'm depserate for help, as I have have family photos on here that are priceless to me.

ease
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Joined: 09 Jul 2013, 21:24

Re: Help with raid1 array broken, encrypted with Trucrypt

#2 Post by ease »

This is what I get right after hitting analyze :

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ease
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Joined: 09 Jul 2013, 21:24

Re: Help with raid1 array broken, encrypted with Trucrypt

#3 Post by ease »

Here is the screen when it is finished with a regular scan.

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After I hit enter :
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Not going to do anything after this, but what should I do here? Why is it finding a 226gb partition?

ease
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Re: Help with raid1 array broken, encrypted with Trucrypt

#4 Post by ease »

34% into a deep scan :

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Is it bad news it keeps finding fats?

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