Ive been digging through google and youtube for help here, until I was told about TestDisk and you guys.
My Asrock X99 OC motherboard experienced a CMOS reset, and it decided to change my RAID config to AHCI during Windows 10 bootup.
To my surprise my Raid 5 was gone, and after troubleshooting, rebooted into bios, changed back to RAID, booted up WIndows 10, but to no avail.
It reported back as failed raid array.
I followed instructions for using TestDisk to recover my raid partition configuration,
1) Deleting Raid Array
2) Creating Identical Array
3) Restarting Computer
4) Letting it initialize (even though that scared the living hell out of me)
Now, Ive ran TestDisk, let it sit for 8 hours, and its still running. Based on how it works through 1 sector per second, the remaining time is roughly 260 days.
What can I do here? I havent formatter the disks, but I let them reinitialize TWO times. (First time I recreated the array, then deleted it, because I thought initializing was going to make the partition unrecoverable)
Does initializing harm the partitions in any way?
Is there something else I can try? I hope my partition can be saved, as any recovery attempts doesnt actually show the important folders (only about 50gig, the rest I have backup of).
I am willing to donate a nice sum to the CGSecurity Team if you can help me out!
Update! It found some more:
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Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 10001 GB / 9315 GiB - CHS 1216005 255 63
Analyse cylinder 269249/1216004: 22%
Linux filesys. data 10240 3907037183 3907026944
Linux filesys. data 3907666086 3911776287 4110201 [M-: ]x~B~MM-*^A6^]M-(; U~Y]
Warning: number of heads/cylinder mismatches 2 (FAT) != 255 (HD)
Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 18 (FAT) != 63 (HD)
EFI System 4324719664 4324722543 2880 [EFI System Partition] [EFISECTOR]
Warning: number of heads/cylinder mismatches 16 (NTFS) != 255 (HD)
Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 2 (NTFS) != 63 (HD)
MS Data 4324723483 4324729656 6174
Warning: number of heads/cylinder mismatches 16 (NTFS) != 255 (HD)
Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 2 (NTFS) != 63 (HD)
MS Data 4324729656 4324735829 6174 [Boot]