Oh, poo. Please help - data recovery

ChrisD.

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I'm having a proper weird "I'm a ****" day. Anyway I deleted an array that my 250 GB drive was in (single drive RAID array) by mistake. I've not gone to format it or anything.

What's the best way of getting my data back? To say it's important is an understatement!!!
 
MilanoChris said:
What's the best way of getting my data back? To say it's important is an understatement!!!
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This is what backups are for.

You could try and recreate an array on the drive but not wipe the existing contents (if you are given the option), that *might* give you the opportunity to access the existing contents but I can't guarantee it.
 
Yes I know. I was about to do one.

Anyway I ran RAID reconstructor which gave me an image file and now I've imported that into GetDataBack NTFS. It's scanning through atm, I'll see what it gives.
 
Ah great, after about 4 hours and the programm finding what I need it now tells me that copying is only available in the licensed version.

This is not my day.
 
Something similar happened to me a couple of weeks ago.

I have a Raid 0 array consisting of 3x 250GB drives used for Games/Downloads/My Documents/Programs etc (not my OS), and I nudged one of the sata cables while the pc was on, resulting in a BSOD. When I rebooted the array kept failing, saying 1 drive was missing, even though all 3 drives were connected fine. I only had 1GB free on this 698GB partition so it would have been pretty annoying had I lost it all. :)

I deleted the array, rebuilt it, booted into windows and used File Scavenger. It took about 10 seconds to scan the whole array and display the contents (I only built the array, didn't partition or format it).

Took ages to backup 697GB (used several smaller drives), but got it all back no problem.
File Scavenger is ace, especially since you can use the trial version to see if the data is recoverable before you fork out for the full program.

Good luck. :)
 
Well I had a go with different software and EASEUS Data Recovery has picked up every single file, is the quickest and most user friendly one I've used.

Thumbs up. 200GB worth of data on it's way onto my incredibly noisy Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3500630AS. Actually, looking at reviews it wasn't perhaps the best choice of 500GB drive... oh well.
 
Trixxy said:
Something similar happened to me a couple of weeks ago.

I have a Raid 0 array consisting of 3x 250GB drives used for Games/Downloads/My Documents/Programs etc (not my OS), and I nudged one of the sata cables while the pc was on, resulting in a BSOD. When I rebooted the array kept failing, saying 1 drive was missing, even though all 3 drives were connected fine. I only had 1GB free on this 698GB partition so it would have been pretty annoying had I lost it all. :)

I deleted the array, rebuilt it, booted into windows and used File Scavenger. It took about 10 seconds to scan the whole array and display the contents (I only built the array, didn't partition or format it).

Took ages to backup 697GB (used several smaller drives), but got it all back no problem.
File Scavenger is ace, especially since you can use the trial version to see if the data is recoverable before you fork out for the full program.

Good luck. :)
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I have the argee about file scavenger had a mini melt down this morning, external icybox corrupted itself, but lucky managed to recover everything with file scanvenger. Ace program!
 
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