trying to recover spanned volume 4x2tb (8TB volume)

[seed.helper]

i have been contacted by DataPlanet and he was been of great help

lets see what we can do... im learning tomorrow i will be results

for now WD this morning and DataPlanet this afternoon tried to figure whats wrong to help

se ya tomorrow guys... im happy i see some light ...

[seed.helper]

i have been contacted by DataPlanet and he was been of great help

lets see what we can do... im learning tomorrow i will be results

for now WD this morning and DataPlanet this afternoon tried to figure whats wrong to help

se ya tomorrow guys... im happy i see some light ...

Just a small advice from someone that is on the data recovery field for some years now ...
Don't trust any person that claims to be a data recovery expert just because they say they are.

Check here and decide for yourself.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28686

i understand mate. Muhammad Ali from DataPlanet realy helped me starting the recovery of my files.

WD team was analysing the NAS firmware bug related first... but i prefer DataPLanet approach because i could see some of my files after an hour or so... the scan will finish tomorrow

i think you shouldnt bash DataPlanet because of one situation

have a good day sir thanks for all opinions and help again

you have here an wonderfull forum with great people

for now DataPlanet approach is where i am getting results more quickly ( and good ones)

[seed.helper]

Good luck then.

thanks

[seed.helper]

Good luck then.

thanks

Please tell us how it went and if you manage to get the data back !
Also, are you from Portugal ?
Regards.

still scanning

data is still there

connected to pc and scanning ... let see after recovery

the interesting bit

[lcoughey]

It looks like you are doing it the hard slow way.

[seed.helper]

I dont know other way

[seed.helper]

i could recover 70% of what i didnt had backup previously

im trying with r-studio now... but i have one problem. I dont know how to tell this program that this drives are a spanned volume... im scanning one by one.... the first is getting good results..

the seconds its getting many orphan files ( without any directory)

maybe the info about the path are in the first drive

is there any other way to make this program know that is a spanned volume and search the 8TB of data instead of searching 2tb at a time...

recreating the spanned volume without formatting and try to recover from that. What do you think guys ???

lcoughey you say that i did the hard slow way? is there any other way that i can do here at home ??

[einstein9]

Slow Mode: not knowing anything about RAID stripe size n parameters, and scan the drives (and you may/may not find what ur looking for

Fast (Pro.) Mode: Pay someone who knows and watch and learn ur mistakes n improve

searching each 2TB alone is a WASTE OF TIME

good luck

[seed.helper]

you didnt answer to my question einstein

but if you dont want to answer lets see if others can help me...i have an idea but waiting for more input

i have already recovered at least 70% of the data that i wanted i will not need to pay a pro to recover the other 30%

if you are not willing to help please dont but let other do ok?
im asking a way to connect all drives to pc and let r-studio read all the hdds sequencialy instead of one by one like im doing
I will have many time to ask for help when i have any drive to crash

all HDDS are fine so im trying the hard way and its working

have a good day


and for a starter... i know that is a spanned volume, i know that is 64 KB and i know the order of the drives

and i like people who tries to help instead of keeping all secrets when its not needed

it wont hurt your business helping one guy that is almost their homework done... you will have plenty of recovery in the future to get money from them. I learned somehing... when i do something good karma helps me in the good day and i noticed that im my life several times

I offered one hard 500gb to a good friend of mine and i won an 500gb hard drive in a competition on the internet from hard disk sentinel contest ... so i have all the space that i had before and i helped my friend with an hard drive. Its cool when this things happen

[Dmitri]

im scanning one by one

That's meaningless.

You picked the software and misusing it, while the overall idea has been posted already

you need data recovery software, which will reassemble your RAID based on the parameters you provide

the first is getting good results

Save few relatively large files and try to open them.

[einstein9]

you didnt answer to my question einstein

but if you dont want to answer lets see if others can help me...i have an idea but waiting for more input

i have already recovered at least 70% of the data that i wanted i will not need to pay a pro to recover the other 30%

if you are not willing to help please dont but let other do ok?
im asking a way to connect all drives to pc and let r-studio read all the hdds sequencialy instead of one by one like im doing
I will have many time to ask for help when i have any drive to crash

all HDDS are fine so im trying the hard way and its working

have a good day


and for a starter... i know that is a spanned volume, i know that is 64 KB and i know the order of the drives

and i like people who tries to help instead of keeping all secrets when its not needed

it wont hurt your business helping one guy that is almost their homework done... you will have plenty of recovery in the future to get money from them. I learned somehing... when i do something good karma helps me in the good day and i noticed that im my life several times

I offered one hard 500gb to a good friend of mine and i won an 500gb hard drive in a competition on the internet from hard disk sentinel contest ... so i have all the space that i had before and i helped my friend with an hard drive. Its cool when this things happen

if you know the Stripe size n Order, then you are DONE
no need to run the scan, (except in 1 condition missing)

Anyway, Good luck with what ur doing

[seed.helper]

thank you.. now i need software that can reassemble raid

i will search on google then

[loki]

thank you.. now i need software that can reassemble raid

i will search on google then

You were using it r-studio can create virtual raids & volumes.
Check out their PDF manual
Are you using latest paid version or demo?


Loki

[dick]

If I understand correctly you have 6tb of data on a spanned set of 4x 2tb disks and you only have a certain number of 500gb disks to recover to.

R-studio can reassemble images of your disk set but it seems you are working on the original drives which is a big no no in data recovery. One mistake and you will be in deep water so take care!

[seed.helper]

I dont have money to buy drives for the clones :/
Will talk to WD tomorrow and see the best solution

I should have study more of r studio. Will read the manual

thanks for all the tips. Take care all

Tomorrow I will update

[dick]

Or maybe I understood incorrectly and you have a spanned set comprising of 2x 2tb and 2x 1tb = 6tb. It makes no difference to how you should carry out the recovery. The procedure would be the same. I wish you luck!

[lcoughey]

I already posted everything you need to do. With no clones, 5 minutes to assemble.

[DataPlanet]

Hello again David... like we found some data in TB's I told you to copy as much as possible on usb drives buy or lend from your friend's. we check almost 90% data is working... may be some data is not working because you stop the procedure the file size may be not copy completely.

With my Experience the video files are working and is in GB's so the offset and order is correct.

Try copy as much data as possible... and we will make a final try to Reconstruct the NAS like its running before.

[seed.helper]

Hello again David... like we found some data in TB's I told you to copy as much as possible on usb drives buy or lend from your friend's. we check almost 90% data is working... may be some data is not working because you stop the procedure the file size may be not copy completely.

With my Experience the video files are working and is in GB's so the offset and order is correct.

Try copy as much data as possible... and we will make a final try to Reconstruct the NAS like its running before.

thank you very much for all your help

scanning with R-TT now



lets see what happens

[seed.helper]

lcoughey could you please explain me what to do in linux ??? 5 minutes or 3 hours was great if it could be true

even NAS doesnt recognize ... Raw recovery...

im scanning one by one

That's meaningless.

You picked the software and misusing it, while the overall idea has been posted already

you need data recovery software, which will reassemble your RAID based on the parameters you provide

the first is getting good results

Save few relatively large files and try to open them.

yes some big files i cant open

thank you.. now i need software that can reassemble raid

i will search on google then

You were using it r-studio can create virtual raids & volumes.
Check out their PDF manual
Are you using latest paid version or demo?


Loki

im trying entire volume now almost all scanned

If I understand correctly you have 6tb of data on a spanned set of 4x 2tb disks and you only have a certain number of 500gb disks to recover to.

R-studio can reassemble images of your disk set but it seems you are working on the original drives which is a big no no in data recovery. One mistake and you will be in deep water so take care!

im trying to get other drives but i cant afford now... lets see if i dont loose everything after scanning with R studio