Hi guys,

I am trying to recover data from two JBOD drives for someone. When I mount both drives, they show up as needing to be formatted (as should be expected).

Recuva will not run on either of them because it cannot find the filesystem. I have purchased a copy of DMDE and am running a search on one of the drives right now, but thought I'd post to see if there would be any luck in recovering the data, and what I would need to do so?

I've found help here before so was hoping you guys could help again. Thanks!

Can you show us the contents of sector 0 of each drive, in hexadecimal mode?

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I'm just saving the NTFS search operation and it's taking a long time on "Completing Current Operation"..

Once it's done, could you tell me under which menu I'll be able to give you the sector information, or does it pop up automatically?

pot sec= 0 here like frank said you

maybe not JBOD!

Hi,

can you try reclaime file recovery?..i hope it will work with you.

An NTFS search should have found something within a few minutes.

To see sector 0, go to Drive -> Select Drive and select the appropriate Physical Device. Uncheck the Show Partitions box and click OK. You should now be at sector 0 in hex mode. If not, select Mode -> Hexadecimal.

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Ok so this is coming from an Iomega iX2-200. It was taken somewhere already and they said supposedly tested one of the drives and found it to be bad. It was no longer getting detected on the network (NAS drive).

With Drive #1 plugged in,

Here is LBA 0 (which I assume is sector 0):

http://imgur.com/RokAC2C

And here it is for drive #2:

http://imgur.com/YzONR0P

Quite typical situation for NAS drives: structure of disk partitions is the same and the largest one is data partition.

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Well here's something I should've done (and this is why you should double check the customer, even if they took it to another tech shop).

I threw both drives in the NAS, run an angry ip scan, found the IP address fo the iomega (which the client said he couldn't connect to before) and I can see the files just fine! It may still have a failing drive but hopefully I can pull all the files out this way

If you don't have success, then show us sectors 1 and 2. That will tell us more about the actual partitions.

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Thanks Fzabkar, I've connected it to my network and was able to find the NAS. I am backing it up right now and then I'll test each drive to make sure there aren't actually bad sectors as the last tech said.

Thank you so much for your help guys, consider it solved for now.

Just FYI, many NAS boxes use Linux file systems. You can mount a Linux FS under Windows using Linux Reader for Windows (freeware).

http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/

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Thanks I'll keep that in mind

Yes approx. 10% - 15% of flash devices I get in I can either copy files off straight away or just image and recover from image, or mount with PFaM.

Generally the third version (after prodding and some decoding of customer-speak) is closer to the truth than the first.