After power loss one of the drives of the array was showing as "Unmountable drive". With a quick search I saw a suggestion to unassigned the drive and re-assign it, that didn't work. Then, my brain farted and press the "Format and restore" drive, assuming that unRaid would rebuild the drive based on the parity disk, and, nope, that didn't happen. Instead I'm now the owner of a new empty drive in the array. Great.

 

Is there anyway I can restore that drive's content? Parity started to sync and rebuild on the last array start, but I cancelled with the hope that it still contains my drive's content.

 

The drive in question is formatted as XFS.

 

Thank you

Edited October 17, 20178 yr by joelrfernandes

7 minutes ago, joelrfernandes said:

and press the "Format and restore" drive

 

It only says format, not restore.

 

Only way you can recover the data is using a file recovery utility, this one has been used with success by other users in the past:

 

http://www.ufsexplorer.com/download_stdr.php

Thank you Johnnie!

 

I'm pretty sure it mentioned something about rebuilding or restore, I'm not sure, and really doesn't matter anymore anyway  

 

Anyway, is that the only solution? Since I can't install that software in the unRaid machine, it basically means I have to take the drive out and attempt to restore it.

14 minutes ago, joelrfernandes said:

Anyway, is that the only solution?

 

AFAIK yes.

 

13 minutes ago, joelrfernandes said:

I'm pretty sure it mentioned something about rebuilding or restore

 

 

Thank you. I'm downloading a live CD from them and will try it out. Fingers crossed.

Edited October 2, 20178 yr by joelrfernandes

johnnie.black - thank you for your suggestion, I was able to recover a lot of data from that drive. Still unsure if it was all of it, but what I needed at least is now safe and sound.

 

Thank you.