Any Hope

[Indred]

OK I was trying to do some tests on my 4 hdds in RAID0 and I tried to just delete the array (not the files) so windows would see 4 hdds not the array. (didn't even work yet ) I went in to the RAID config and deleted the array and booted. Windows loaded and chkdsk ran for some time and then as you see i'm in windows now. I am showing when i click on propertys that the files are still on the hard drive (array) but they are in recovery looking files that total the same size as my orignal but i'm not able to access them to copy the few that i would like to keep then i can format and not worry about it. I'm assuming that because windows moved the files and did this and not just delete them that there must be some way of recovering them. I've sence rebuilt the array the same way it was and when it asked to clear the disk i said NO. Is there much hope for retriving my files back?

 

[HPTech]

Hi there,

Unless you've made an Image of them I doubt it very much that you would be able to save the data unfortunately as they were part of the array, with the data striped accross them. The file info would have been destroyed when you deleted the array.

From Microsoft Technet on arrays:

"Deleting Volumes and Volume Sets
You use the same technique to delete all volumes, whether they're simple, spanned, mirrored, striped, or striped with parity. Deleting a volume set removes the associated file system and data. So before you delete a volume set you should back up any files and directories that the volume set contains."
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodte...000serv/maintain/operate/11w2kada.mspx

Ja, it's for Win2k but the idea's the same.

MikeHP

 

[Indred]

Well thanks HP. I had some pictures of my daughter that i copyied that are safe which i was carefull about the rest not so. I gues all that other information is lost because i'm not really willing to sort thorugh that much stuff also LOL. 633 directorys plus sub files and crap. Thanks for the information regardless that it wasn't what i was hoping for.