Overwritten partition table
Posted: 30 Mar 2015, 11:51
Hello everyone,
Everything started after a BIOS update which made 2 out of 4 disk non-member disks.
Found some instructions here: http://www.overclock.net/t/478557/howto ... disk-error
My main mistake was that it was late in the night when I tried to recover it and since I was in panic mode, I didn't read everything with full attention, and that is of course my mistake.
I will tell you what I have done and perhaps you let me know what are the chances of getting anything back.
First of all my setup is
4x4TB drives in Intel RAID5, H87 chipset
I had two non-member disks
Made all of them non-member disks then recreated the RAID array with the same name, cluster size, order, everything.
Booted into windows, nothing
Started TestDisk, selected Intel instead of GPT
Quick search found a partition, I have only 1 anyway, and I chose to write the partition info
Rebooted
Booted into windows, still drive unavailable
Moved the RAID to another PC, again two disks were non-member,
Did the same procedure as above [remove member disks and recreated the RAID5]
Booted into windwos
Started TestDisk, selected Intel instead of GPT
Quick search found a partition, I have only 1 anyway, and I chose to write the partition info
Rebooted
Quick search found a partition, looked at the files and I saw just a bunch of directories, not all but didn't give it a lot of thought, and I chose to write the partition info
Rebooted
Booted into windows, still drive unavailable
Now, I realize my biggest mistake was chosing Intel over GPT, as the program initially suggested, but I simply didn't read that. I wasn't ignoring it, I simply didn't see it.
Now, I'm in deeper search in hope of fixing everything but at this point I lost all hope. I think I messed everything up.
Thanks for your attention.
Everything started after a BIOS update which made 2 out of 4 disk non-member disks.
Found some instructions here: http://www.overclock.net/t/478557/howto ... disk-error
My main mistake was that it was late in the night when I tried to recover it and since I was in panic mode, I didn't read everything with full attention, and that is of course my mistake.
I will tell you what I have done and perhaps you let me know what are the chances of getting anything back.
First of all my setup is
4x4TB drives in Intel RAID5, H87 chipset
I had two non-member disks
Made all of them non-member disks then recreated the RAID array with the same name, cluster size, order, everything.
Booted into windows, nothing
Started TestDisk, selected Intel instead of GPT
Quick search found a partition, I have only 1 anyway, and I chose to write the partition info
Rebooted
Booted into windows, still drive unavailable
Moved the RAID to another PC, again two disks were non-member,
Did the same procedure as above [remove member disks and recreated the RAID5]
Booted into windwos
Started TestDisk, selected Intel instead of GPT
Quick search found a partition, I have only 1 anyway, and I chose to write the partition info
Rebooted
Quick search found a partition, looked at the files and I saw just a bunch of directories, not all but didn't give it a lot of thought, and I chose to write the partition info
Rebooted
Booted into windows, still drive unavailable
Now, I realize my biggest mistake was chosing Intel over GPT, as the program initially suggested, but I simply didn't read that. I wasn't ignoring it, I simply didn't see it.
Now, I'm in deeper search in hope of fixing everything but at this point I lost all hope. I think I messed everything up.
Thanks for your attention.