January 23, 201412 yr Hi, Had some water damage in home, so had to move my machine containing 11 disks to another floor and salvage whatever I can. Parity check started and the process disabled one disk, #5. I replaced this disk with a precleared disk and the data rebuild started. I think (I was away from home) the process went more than 50% when it stopped and disabled disk #1 as well. So the current status is: Disk1: Disabled Disk5: Invalid (the new replaced drive) Both the disks 1 and 5 appear to be accessible but not sure how much data I can pull from them. I have another replacement in box and two more enroute. I want to recover as much data as possible from disks 1 and 5 and get the machine in a protected raid mode. Now my question is what is the best way to do this? Can I use the information from parity drive to reconstruct as much data as possible? Thanks!
January 23, 201412 yr Author ^^ Bump .. any ideas on how I can copy available data from the two failed drives and start the raid?
January 23, 201412 yr i think that i am having a problem like yours... the only think that i would suggest is ensure that the connections in the box are good... I had mine shipped and im having issues... mat
January 24, 201412 yr Author I think HDDs are the source of trouble, plugged them to an external SATA box and one of the drive is not even mountable (no first partition, sdn1). I am attempting to copy off files from one drive that shows the folders. For the second one, I may have to copy off the disk image and try to recover data from that. The forum and FAQ has details to get started. Hope to recover as much data as possible before these spinners conk off permanently. have you tried connecting the two "bad" HDDs on a different CPU...
January 24, 201412 yr if it were me i wouldnt try to mess with the data that much... because if it's just a ckfs? that can fix the data on the drive and mount it you can recover the data that's resting on the lost HDD... but if you were to copy the data to a different disk that will mess with your parity drive leaving you unable to recover it... mat
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