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EzraGray
8th January 2009, 04:39
Hi, all...

I have 6 HP 36.4 GB SCSI drives housing C: & D: partitions in a RAID 5 array. I'm told that the controller in the DL380 housing these died. When the drives were transferred to another DL380 the system wouldn't boot.
I bought ZAR & Zlon about 18 hours ago and I've been sitting here since trying to rescue some user data through trial & error. I've reinstalled the OS onto another drive & made sector-by-sector copies of the 6 drives to work with (one of the original 6 is generating S.M.A.R.T. error messages).
Each scan attempt spends about 80-90 minutes identifying data before telling me that no volume can be found. I've scanned for a partition & tried various manual configs, but each result yields only lists of various "LostFiles" directories full of corrupted files.
Is there something obvious that I'm missing here?
I've probably omitted some key info... I'd be happy to supply it if anyone can offer suggestions.

Thanks!

Alexey V. Gubin
8th January 2009, 16:15
Refer to this procedure:

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/raid-recovery-tutorial.htm


You need six drives accessible separately.
Alternatively, you can load six image files (right click physical disk list in the step 3 of the above reference; select "Load image file").
If this does not help, could you please specify

What is the exact error message ("no volume could be found" may refer to several subtly different problems).
In which step is the error thrown?
What filesystem types were on these C: and D: volumes?