Re: Utterly Gutted

["Rob West" <xplworld@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,

I had a similar catastrophe earlier in the year - but with Win2000 software
RAID.

After playing with a few recovery tools I finally found one that managed to
recover most of my data from the rest of the RAID disks. It's called File
Scavenger 2.1 - and you can find it at http://www.quetek.com

It claims to work on damaged hardware and software arrays, but of course
I've only ever used it on the software variety.

Incidentally, the biggest problem that I had was finding enough disk(s) to
write the recovered files to!

Hope it helps,

Rob.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 8:59 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Utterly Gutted


> Hi All,
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> Just thought I would share this tale of woe with you so some of you
don't
make the mistakes I did......
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> I had build a raid 5 system around the promise sx6000 hardware raid
card
with 6 x superstore caddies (not cheap by any stretch of the imagination)
thinking this would keep my data safe. One of the drives failed yesterday -
I didn't panic - put in a replacement - the array rebuilt itself and all
the
lights went green. Rebooted XP and nothing..... the array appeared as
un-partitioned space. All the data is gone including all our photos
(including those of my newborn daughter) / videos all our documents. The
500
albums I ripped and god knows what else.
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> I just wanted everyone who has raid setup and thinks they are in any
way
safe to get out there by the DVD-r's and get backing up - Raid as far as I
can see is worthless. The one time I needed it it failed.
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> Chris (Gutted)
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