my drobo's file system was corrupted and chkdsk was unable to repair. i was able to recover most of the data using some recovery software, but there was still a few items left i couldn't get to.
i stumbled upon testdisk and the step by step guide and ended up writing a new partition structure

. this resulted in the drobo entering a nonstop reboot cycle, removing the drives is the only way the drobo starts up correctly so the device itself is fine, but with drives inserted it goes back to rebooting itself continuously.
i dont suppose anyone here has done something this stupid before?