Data Recovery

[Prime2515103]

Hi,

So, I accidentally deleted some files and they are no longer recoverable from the NTFS drive installed in my desktop.

The files were copied to my Synology NAS, but they have since been deleted.

I would like to scan one of the drives from the NAS (it is set to RAID1) to see if I can undelete the files.

Do both drives need to be installed in the desktop to do the scan even though it is RAID1?

I downloaded a program that is supposed to support exFAT but it doesn't see drives that don't have a drive letter assigned, and Disk Management won't let me assign a letter.

Where do I start?

Thanks

P.S. Encryption isn't enabled on the NAS so that should be a good thing.

 

[Elixer]

It would be easier to clone your desktop HD, and THEN perform recovery on that unit.
Trying to do it with RAID arrays isn't exactly a walk in the park.

Depending on when they were deleted, and how many writes you did to the drive since, that data might be long gone.

 

[Blain]

Yes... Always work on a cloned drive if at all possible.

 

[RecoveryForce]

If either the RAID unit or the desktop drive had much use following the deletions, the odds of recovery get lower with the amount of usage.

As already advised, get a clone, scan with a program like R-Studio and copy recovered files to a drive other than the source.

 

[Prime2515103]

So I ran R-Studio (thanks for the tip on that!). It recovered files I didn't even know were ever on there, and a lot of what I lost was recovered in triplicate! lol

I was afraid it was all going to be lost because a complete system backup (4 hard drives worth of crap) was done since the other files were deleted, but all is well.

 

[RecoveryForce]

I'm glad it worked out for you. It is better to get 3 copies of every file than none. Just note that sometimes only one of the 3 copies is healthy.