darmar007

so, i'm back! with all my data!!! as i'm not too technical, i used 3rd party recovery software for complete scan of my HDD, it found my partition and one more which i had to delete to be able to recovery good one... it took aprox 16h to scan, 16 more to make image file to another hdd before i make more stupid actions, after successful recovery it took again 20 and some hour to copy data from one hdd to the other (both attached by usb)... i think avira made the process slower this time... i also copied all of my data from lap-top to the same hdd and now i'll try again to copy all that to the unRAID attached hdd... this was the point where i screwed with attaching data hdd to array... as Joe L. said: "Never assign ANY disk to unRAID unless it is ready to be re-used/re-partitioned/formatted." Thanks Joe, thanks lionelhutz!

thanks for your time! sorry for not writing, we got a baby so i was bit lost last thing i'we been watching was this forum... think there are some solutions too... http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/229699-14-erased-partition-external-hard-drive-mistake-help i will write asap i get some time and results! in the meanwhile my hdd is on ice!

Please, what exactly happens with non precleard hdd (full of personal data/windows formatted) if you add it to the array and start the array!?! (i never clicked format or any similar button) There were no parity disk just one already unRAID precleard / formatted disk1 and then the mentioned one i added thought it's needed prior to transfer it's content to disk1... And just after I saw Joe's post about transferring from internal drive with warning not to assign... it was to late... Now my drive is unrecognisable by my lap top... it is inaccessible for most format recovery software. I found some photos with one of data rescue programs but finally i stopped scan process to not mess up more i did already... Which way to go?! What actually happened here? Thanks

Works great! Thanks!

please... i want to do 2nd preclear of my HD and i tried option with email notifications ./preclear_disk.sh -M 4 /dev/sdX ("root" email address) what comes back is: bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' what is that, i didn't found similar post to guide me in this case...

many thanks!

i get stucked here too trying to figure ot what i've messed up this time

few hours of sleep and quick peek to the Configuration Tutorial gave me the answer to my question... my first preclear on WD20EARX 2T finished after 29h 45min with 0 errors the next one is on it's way!

lol! I needed this comment to cheer me a bit I stumbled upon unRAID a week ago and searching for a case for my home server I've got 5 years old HP pavilion from a friend of mine last Friday, Saturday morning bought 2T to join my existing saturated 1T in what seems to be relaxing weekend DIY project Went too sleep Sunday 4am just succeeded to make my MB boot from USB As 33 years old Linux virgin, you can imagine my frustration regarding the progress speed in finishing my first NAS... Luckily, 1st/3 pre-clearing of my 2T is hitting to it's 25th hour which leaves me just enough time to confuse myself even more... As I don't find a straight answer to next problem I'll dare to pose this question here where my adventure ends for today... How/should I transfer data from my 1T to pre-cleared/formatted 2T once the process is finished??? First thought was to use Hiren's boot CD to copy files under provided win xp environment but reading some posts here getting impression how naive I am... It's in option to buy another 2T this weekend... Even an appropriate link would be very appreciated! Thanks in advance!