Partition Recovery From Software Stripping

[CaNiDe]

Hi all,

I'm new in the forum and I have a serious problem. I stripped 3 HD's between them to create a partition. I formated one of them. So I lost the partition. When I go to the computer management, I can see the parts of the partition on each HD but the one I formated. What tool can I use to restore all the partition please ?

I already tried r-studio, it's a good program but I can't restore all the files.

Thank you very much for all the help you can give me!!

- CaN -

 

[mukinusa]

When you say that you have striped 3 drives, I will have to assume that you have set up your array in either raid 0 or raid 5.

If formatted one of the disks from your array and you were running raid 0. Sorry, but 66% of your data is gone, also depending on the size of the stripe that is on your raid array will depend on how much continuous data stream you have if you try to rebuild the array. Normally controller cards attribute a 64k stripe to auto setup raid 0. This means that you have a 128k uninterrupted data track then 64k of missing data.

There are solutions out there that would attribute zeros to the missing 64k however, depending on what you were storing on the drive then the missing data could be catastrophic or not, depending if you are using text based documents with no encryption or compression, or movie and music files. Oh, the whole recovery of the raid 0 will also be partially successful or not at all relative to the last time that you defragmented the array.

Raid 5, if it was hardware then you need to put the drive back in and rebuild the array from the parity on the other two drives, if it was software then you need to use the utility that you created the stripe with in the first place to rebuild with.


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