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									4 Disk Raid 5, one disk down, one disk out of sync. - Other Problems				            </title>
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                        <title>4 Disk Raid 5, one disk down, one disk out of sync.</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/other-problems/4-disk-raid-5-one-disk-down-one-disk-out-of-sync/#post-3162</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 19:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[A disk is missing, see the &quot;missing disk&quot; comment? 

This must have been a 5 disk RAID 5 volume?

Where is the 5th disk? Is it connected and just not showing up?]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[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?]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>4 Disk Raid 5, one disk down, one disk out of sync.</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/other-problems/4-disk-raid-5-one-disk-down-one-disk-out-of-sync/#post-3158</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 06:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Diskwarrior completed, and updated the drive&#039;s directory, some files lost, drive mounts now.  But SoftRaid still reporting that that disk is &quot;out-of-sync&quot;]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[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"]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://forums.softraid.com/other-problems/">Other Problems</category>                        <dc:creator>NotASpammer</dc:creator>
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                        <title>4 Disk Raid 5, one disk down, one disk out of sync.</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/other-problems/4-disk-raid-5-one-disk-down-one-disk-out-of-sync/#post-3157</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 06:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[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 &quot;Disk Identifier&quot;, even ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[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.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>4 Disk Raid 5, one disk down, one disk out of sync.</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/other-problems/4-disk-raid-5-one-disk-down-one-disk-out-of-sync/#post-3154</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 01:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Thanks for the advice!

Here&#039;s what it looks like currently:

And i&#039;m now running diskwarrior:

I&#039;m not sure how to look for a &quot;valid disk identifier&quot; ?]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Thanks for the advice!

Here's what it looks like currently:
https://i.imgur.com/nhVAZMV.png

And i'm now running diskwarrior:
https://i.imgur.com/UxADyEo.png

I'm not sure how to look for a "valid disk identifier" ?]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://forums.softraid.com/other-problems/">Other Problems</category>                        <dc:creator>NotASpammer</dc:creator>
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                        <title>4 Disk Raid 5, one disk down, one disk out of sync.</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/other-problems/4-disk-raid-5-one-disk-down-one-disk-out-of-sync/#post-3153</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[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.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>4 Disk Raid 5, one disk down, one disk out of sync.</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/other-problems/4-disk-raid-5-one-disk-down-one-disk-out-of-sync/#post-606</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[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 t...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[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.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://forums.softraid.com/other-problems/">Other Problems</category>                        <dc:creator>NotASpammer</dc:creator>
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