Guys, love the software, please point me in the right direction.

 

1 of my drives was not showing in the array, then it became disabled and data was emulated.  The drive showed.  there was an option at the bottom to format the drive.   I thought that since i reconnected it, it would format and rebuild...however i lost all data from that drive.  now its showing as empty.  i think i just lost all the data on that drive??

 

Help please

I was able to mount the disk outside the array and get my files!!!!

 

 

You were lucky!   

 

When Unraid disables a disk then it stops writing to the physical drive and only writes to the emulated one.    Therefore when you formatted the drive you were formatting the emulated drive and not the physical one. (and updated parity accordingly)   That is why mounting the disk out side the array worked and your files were still there.

 

it is worth emphasising that 'format' is never part of the process for recovering data - it is how you can lose data1!