HELP!!!!

[chad]

We have a server running RAID 5 on three SCSI drives. Two drives lost
power, and one remained. However, the system will not boot. We were
able to force a boot and tried to reconstruct the RAID. We ran a
chkdsk after installing Windows again, and found that our Filemaker
database files were all there....correct size, and names. Some open,
and most others say they are corrupted. Is there a way to recover
these files correctly by reconstructing the RAID? Would a data
recovery service even be able to make the files there useable?

 

[Kurt]

We have a server running RAID 5 on three SCSI drives. Two drives lost
power, and one remained. However, the system will not boot. We were
able to force a boot and tried to reconstruct the RAID. We ran a
chkdsk after installing Windows again, and found that our Filemaker
database files were all there....correct size, and names. Some open,
and most others say they are corrupted. Is there a way to recover
these files correctly by reconstructing the RAID? Would a data
recovery service even be able to make the files there useable?

First of all, don't attempt any further operations on the drives
(rebuilding, write operations, formatting, etc). If you can't restore
from backup, everything that gets written to the drives will destroy
existing data.

Second, a service like OnTrack Data Recovery (Google) will most likely
be able to recover all of your files other than those that have been
overwritten by some other process. This service is not cheap ($8,000 -
$20,000), but they will get 99% of your data back to you.

....kurt

 

[leew [MVP]]

First of all, don't attempt any further operations on the drives
(rebuilding, write operations, formatting, etc). If you can't restore
from backup, everything that gets written to the drives will destroy
existing data.

Second, a service like OnTrack Data Recovery (Google) will most likely
be able to recover all of your files other than those that have been
overwritten by some other process. This service is not cheap ($8,000 -
$20,000), but they will get 99% of your data back to you.

...kurt

Data recovery service is the best bet - but you could also try this:
http://www.runtime.org/raid.htm (given that data recovery isn't going to
be cheap). What happened to your backups?

 

[chad]

Data recovery service is the best bet - but you could also try this:http://www.runtime.org/raid.htm(given that data recovery isn't going to
be cheap). What happened to your backups?- Hide quoted text -

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Well guys, thanks for the information. Unfortunately, I messed with
the drives before reading this post. The post said don't mess with the
drives. What did I do? That's right, I screwed with them and pretty
much killed all chances at data recovery. Lesson learned at a high
cost.