Sunday, May 2, 2010

[Avid-L2] Re: OT: good data recovery software for software RAID (stripe) on Windows 7?

Try SpinRite: http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

If anything can recover the drive it will. I can't recommend it highly enough.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, nat jencks <natjencks.lists@...> wrote:
>
> I pretty much know I am screwed but...
> Has anyone used any data recovery software capable of rebuilding a software RAID set on windows?
> I'm looking at "r-studio".
>
> I have a stripe set on windows 7 built from 2 disks (windows OS stripe), and something has gone haywire and one of the disks shows up as a failed dynamic disk, while the other shows up as a foreign disk. If I try to import the single foreign disk it warns that the otherdisk in the set is missing and data will be lost if I continue... So I don't want to.
>
> I've tried mounting the drives on another windows machine, and the machine doesn't boot while the disks are both attached... not good.
>
> Sending it out for pro data recovery would probably be prohibitively difficult and expensice (it's a big rackmount 12-drive array).
> I can live without the data but don't want to.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> best-
> -Nat
>


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