I amRunning SBS 2k3, on raid 5, other partitions on raid (dell
utility) boot. With the raid drivers system sees the drive. Booted to
the windows recovery ran chkdsk /r and /p came back with 'The volume
appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems' . I then booted
to Helix rescue cd (v3) and the drive shows up as an Unknow partition
in Gparted. Ran fdsik -l and it returnd a file system id # 7, NTFS.
tried to force mount as NTFS but it errors out with, "dosen't have a
vaild ntfs".
Any ideas on how to repair the file system, or get to the data on the
drive?
As an aside to others who read this, this is why I don't advise placing the
system on RAID5. Raid1 is much easier to deal with.
-Larry
"smeg" <line...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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afaik, there is no magic bullet. The three sources of recovery that I know
about are: 1. The utilities furnished by the hardware manufacturer; 2. A
third party program similar to the link I gave you; and 3. Restore from
Backup after replacing, repairing the fault.
The link I gave you is the best I know. If you suspect problems with a
corrupted volume created by Windows, MS will try their best. If the problem
is with the controller, MS will (probably) disavow all knowledge.
The link I gave you has a trial version that will give you some indication
of whether or not the info can be recovered. Further, I hope you have a
recent viable backup, as you may very well need it.
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Larry
Please post the resolution to your
issue so that others may benefit.
"smeg" <line...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Still running the program you sugesed but so far it's finding the
files.Will Let you know but so far so good, Thank
steps i did
imaged unknown raid partition with Helix linux Cd over to a usb drive
then installed that program on to computer
ran it (default promts) on usb attachd storage
Has errros but not shore if its raid, dirve or USB problems
Got data back, used Testdisk
I added the tool you found to my list.
Well Done!
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Larry
Please post the resolution to your
issue so that others may benefit.
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