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Re: Solved faulty RAID1 problems

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On 03/16/2015 04:44 PM, asdf wrote:
> Finally I solved the faulty RAID1 problem using Testdisk.
>
> (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk)
>
> I recreated the RAID array on a new pair of disks, then connected one
> of the two unreadable RAID disks and fired up Testdisk. I chose the
> right partition then left it analyzing the surface overnight and this
> morning it had found all files and asked me for a place to restore
> them. I gave it the newly created RAID path and in a few hours had all
> my files back, including some copies of them that I renamed just
> before the crash.
>
> I have no idea why the old disks -all of them, including not faulty ones-
> were suddenly seen as 232.9G instead of 2TB and were unmountable
> and/or unusable as RAID although I never wrote a bit on them, Anyway
> problem solved, and a few bucks donated to the guy who wrote that
> tool.
>
>



Glad you save your data.

I have also used Testdisk and it worked so well, I sent them a 
contribution.

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