I know there are several posts on this but I cannot find the exact answer. My wife slammed a bag into the USB drive I am using for my unRAID server. It was bent 90 degrees. When i took it out and examined, it looked ok and i carefully bent back into place. However, now unRAID will not load. When i place the USB into my win7 machine, it says device not formatted. Its showing as an untitled volume. I cant run a scandisk or chkdsk on it since its showing as unformatted. When i plug into my mac side, it mounts and i can open. I see the files but majority of them are named scrambled ascii characters and will not copy (i get a -36 error). These files are all listed as 0KB and as alias files. I tried to do a repair disk in disk utility but that seems to have done nothing.

 

I am assuming this drive is corrupt and unfixable. But my real problem is that i havent backed it up (stupid) in a safe place and instead the backup is on a user share on the unRAID server i call backups (another stupid thing i did). If i create a new unRAID flash drive, what will happen to my existing data in the RAID? Is there a way to salvage all of this even if it means recreating the shares (of which I only had 2 - one for movies and one for backups.

 

I am posting here only cause 4.4 was the latest version I had deployed. If i should post somewhere else please let me know.

 

Thanks and any help would be much appreciated.

 

 

You'll lose the specific user-share settings (split-level, allowed users, etc) but all the data and the user-shares themselves will all be there if you configure and insert a new flash drive.

 

If you have more than 2 data drives you'll need to request a new .key file from lime-technology before you'll be able to assign the drives. (translation... do NOT power down the unRAID server until then or you'll not be able to re-start with the damaged flash drive)

 

Take a screen-shot so you'll know how to re-assign the drives when you configure the new flash drive "devices" page.