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Data Recovery of IBM 75 GXP's in raid 0 array..

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Bimmer318i

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ok, it can be done...but can it be done affordably?..

one drive is fine..
the other has errors on it...big surprise..

I really would love to have this data back..or atleast my pictures from my digi cam 🙁..stupid me for not backing up..

i was thinking an image created by winhex..or rather a duplicate onto another drive and see if it recognizes it as the other drive and just take what I can...i can deal with a few missing files..

LMK if you guys have any suggestions..

and technical guru's, go ahead..i'm willing to learn..


Thanks,
Abirinder..
 
Yes, it can. it's called very expensive physical data recovery....which i don't have the money for (from 500-5,000) out of my league..i'd be willing to spend about 200-300 on it...

 
Originally posted by: Bimmer318i
do you have any idea as to their pricing?..just wondering if you have any personal experience ?..

Thanks..
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We sent a few drives their way at my old work, I'm not 100% sure, but I seem to remember their prices varying from $1.000 upto $5.000 depending on what had happened to the drive.
For example, restoring data from a drive that simply had a bad head or something would be much cheaper than recovering from a drive that had been in a fire.
 
thanks for the info 🙂..

a little rich for my blood but I guess that's what you pay for being stupid and not backing up..
anyhow..

thanks,
and any more ideas out there guys?..

 
Yes, it can. it's called very expensive physical data recovery....which i don't have the money for (from 500-5,000) out of my league..i'd be willing to spend about 200-300 on it...
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No. It can't. Raid-0 stipes every single file across both drives. So, half the file is on one drive and half the file is on the other. If you only have one drive left, the most that they could possibly recover is half of every file which would be useless. If you're talking about restoring from the bad raid array and then re-assembling the array, this also can't be done. An array can't be put back together once it has changed physical volumes.
 
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Yes, it can. it's called very expensive physical data recovery....which i don't have the money for (from 500-5,000) out of my league..i'd be willing to spend about 200-300 on it...
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No. It can't. Raid-0 stipes every single file across both drives. So, half the file is on one drive and half the file is on the other. If you only have one drive left, the most that they could possibly recover is half of every file which would be useless. If you're talking about restoring from the bad raid array and then re-assembling the array, this also can't be done. An array can't be put back together once it has changed physical volumes.
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Actually IBas claims to be able to recover data from RAID volumes as well.
Of course you'd need to send in all the drives from the array.

Not that we ever used this particular service at my old work, we only sent in a bunch of single drives, but you'd be surprised what they can do.
 
actually, a number of companies have the ability to recover raid arrays..

half the data...the other half the data...let's put it together now..

obviously in more technical terms but if they can get it back from a fire my case is not all that out there..

but anyways..

as for my array..it's intact...whether i can move it to another physical drive (image the bad drive)...that i doubt myself but worth a shot..

(p.s. I have seen people recreate their raid arrays and save all data with the same physical drives that were used in the original array)

 
I've had experience with data recovery houses when I used to consult. Yes it can be done. No, it cannot be done in the price range you want.

Their procedures are very labor intensive. They take the drive apart and use special equipment to read as much data as possible off the platters. I have seen RAID 0 arrays recovered (A number of years back and as I recall it cost the company about $2k).
 
yea, had a call from a firm this morning, they want to do an evaluation and said it would probably be in the 1,000-5,000 range, ah well, but I think i may be able to do it myself, sort of..

the drives are still somewhat readable (actually only 1 has errors on it), so i made a raw data image of the partitions ignoring the dead sectors and i am writing them back to another harddrive in raw data format as well and using a program called restorer pro 2000 to look @ the raw data and pull the files that I can..
 
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