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Am I out of luck?
Story: I temporarily disconnected one of the disks because I needed a spare SATA port briefly to erase a hard drive for another computer (long story). Anyway, during this time, I guess the other 3 of the 4 disks got out of sync with the 4th (disconnected disk). Upon shutdown, and reconnection, I was no longer able to get past login prompt. Once logging in the computer would immediately crash. I believe this was due to the fact that the 4th disk was out of sync.
Since this was a RAID5, I believed the best course of action forward was wipe the 4th disk, and rebuild the array. So thats what I did.
Upon adding this 4th disk back into the array and attempting to rebuild, The rebuilding just hung with no progress meter or anything. (I have a theory this might be because my Raid was partitioned into two partitions, but i'm not 100% sure).
As I could not get it to rebuild. I decided to cancel the rebuild and try a reboot. Upon rebooting I was stuck in the same problem as previous, immediately after login the computer would crash until the 4th disk was removed.
So, once again I erased the 4th disk (using a separate computer). Once again I placed it back into the raid array, and once again tried to add it into the array. Only to my Horror! this time I see that another disk is now saying "out of sync".
I have a terrible feeling this means I have now lost all hope of recovering my data.
Is there any way I could at least recover SOME of the data?
Please help.
Posted : 14/01/2019 7:04 pm
Connect only the 3 valid disks.
Run SoftRAID. See if there is a valid disk Identifier. If so, you may be OK.
Get Disk Warrior. It should be able to repair the directory.
Posted : 14/01/2019 7:58 pm
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Thanks for the advice!
Here's what it looks like currently:
And i'm now running diskwarrior:
I'm not sure how to look for a "valid disk identifier" ?
Posted : 14/01/2019 8:23 pm
The volumes are disk5 and disk6.
If there was no identifier, then the problem is more difficult. If the volume header is intact, then the volume will always get a "Disk Identifier", even if it is unable to mount at the time.
Posted : 15/01/2019 1:01 am
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Diskwarrior completed, and updated the drive's directory, some files lost, drive mounts now. But SoftRaid still reporting that that disk is "out-of-sync"
Posted : 15/01/2019 1:18 am
A disk is missing, see the "missing disk" comment?
This must have been a 5 disk RAID 5 volume?
Where is the 5th disk? Is it connected and just not showing up?
Posted : 15/01/2019 2:18 pm
