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meanSpleen · 07-29-2008, 03:09 PM

Story - External HD loses its USB connection after it breaks off the board. We dismantle the unit, take out the hard drive, and try to slave it on a SATA computer

We didn't look hard enough and realized after the system starts up that we're on a RAID box (idiots = us). The system is RAID 5, mirroring, so it started the imaging process to get both hard drives sychronized. Note-we were the 2nd drive, being copied onto.

30-60 seconds, we notice it. Turn the computer off and go, "OH POOP!"

SO, it already started the process, and looking at it through Windows disk management, it had already started repartitioning the drive.

I am going to take the drive home with me since we seem to have zero SATA boxes here without RAID on it and cannot turn it off or get the system to recognize any drives after taking out the RAID controller.

So ignoring the box we were working on now - the drive is going home with me since I can use my box the way I want to. i have a copy of MiniPE and Hirens Boot CD with me that have recovery tools on it. I'm going to try what i can, but does anyone have any other ideas besides taking it to a professional shop? That is a last resort since this drive is full of pictures of the kid that this thing belongs too, and about 5 years of work and they never took precautions to have the data anywhere else.

Thanks!

07-29-2008, 03:09 PM	#1 (permalink)
meanSpleen Squid hat! Location: A Few Miles Away From Halx	? - Partial RAID recovery on HD we didn't want recovered Story - External HD loses its USB connection after it breaks off the board. We dismantle the unit, take out the hard drive, and try to slave it on a SATA computer We didn't look hard enough and realized after the system starts up that we're on a RAID box (idiots = us). The system is RAID 5, mirroring, so it started the imaging process to get both hard drives sychronized. Note-we were the 2nd drive, being copied onto. 30-60 seconds, we notice it. Turn the computer off and go, "OH POOP!" SO, it already started the process, and looking at it through Windows disk management, it had already started repartitioning the drive. I am going to take the drive home with me since we seem to have zero SATA boxes here without RAID on it and cannot turn it off or get the system to recognize any drives after taking out the RAID controller. So ignoring the box we were working on now - the drive is going home with me since I can use my box the way I want to. i have a copy of MiniPE and Hirens Boot CD with me that have recovery tools on it. I'm going to try what i can, but does anyone have any other ideas besides taking it to a professional shop? That is a last resort since this drive is full of pictures of the kid that this thing belongs too, and about 5 years of work and they never took precautions to have the data anywhere else. Thanks! __________________ Like TFP? Donate To Keep It Alive!!