Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
June 18th, 2009, 7:33
Very dear BlackST,
Yesterday morning my LaCie NAS (BigDisk 1TB) was not available. After the standard checking, I got that it was not starting up. Then, I decided to open it and I discovered that the 1 TB was made of 2 disks of 500GB each.
Then I tried disconnecting one of them. The LaCie restarted! But with no data available. It would means that the data are in the disk I disconnected. It is a SATA then I used an USB adapter for SATA and started FileSalvage. Incredible! The files where coming out easily. So, I created all the map and I recovered all the pictures.
My thinking, then, was to try to recover also the structure of the file and I bought also CopyCatX. I also bought a 1 TB disk as a place for the recovery disk image.
CopyCatX started and, finally, I got an image of the exact size of the original disk. But, trying to mount the image, it won't work. Disk Utility info sees both the drive from NAS by USB adapter (ST350063 OAS Media) and the disk image where it says "no disk partition" but trying to mount the disk image it says something that sounds like "No File System available".
Is there any way to recreate the FileSystem and to recover the files structure?
For Your info, the Hard Disk under the light is a Seagate - Barracuda 7200.10 500 Gbyte
My very best wishes,
Carmine