HDD wiped by RAID create & copy.

[Guest]

After installing a replacement drive on one of my mirrored RAID sets tonight, I performed a copy to, what I thought was re-sync the existing drive to the new one. What I ended up doing was to copy the contents of the new (blank) drive over the one that contained the data.

What I need to know before I go any further is whether there are any techniques which I can use to recover the data on the HDD that got wiped?

I do still have the dead HDD that came out of the array. I might be able to run something on this if I can be given pointers.

 

[chunkymonster]

Check out RunTime.org for disk and data recovery software. Specifically, check out GetDataBack and/or RAIDReconstructor.

Tough lesson to learn...not sure why you copied data from one drive to another in a RAID0 but typically those operations are done through the RAID software utility or in the BIOS of the RAID controller itself.

Good luck!

 

[Guest]

Check out RunTime.org for disk and data recovery software. Specifically, check out GetDataBack and/or RAIDReconstructor.

Tough lesson to learn...not sure why you copied data from one drive to another in a RAID0 but typically those operations are done through the RAID software utility or in the BIOS of the RAID controller itself.

Good luck!

I had to install a new drive into a RAID 1 (Mirror) because one of the drives had been dropped. What I was trying to do was to mirror the data from the existing good drive over to the drive I'd just installed. Thus making it redundant again.

Anyhow... I'll take a look at this and "phone a friend" etc... I've got a fair idea that I can use my mate's copy of GRCs Spinrite 6 to do a similar job.

Thanks for your assistance...

 

[jitpublisher]

Redundacy is the ability of a drive staying alive and keeping a PC running 24 hours, 7 days a week, which a RAID 1 array is the perfect solution.
You are using RAID 1 as a BACKUP, and RAID 1 is not meant as a backup, because there are number of ways you can very, very easily lose all your data. Unfortunately, you have discovered why RAID 1 is a very poor platform when used as a backup, reason #27.

 

[djbrad007]

Most raid controller do an automatic rebuild once the os is booted and a new replacement drive detected.

Brad

 

[jitpublisher]

Yeah, for what it's worth now, once you installed the new drive, the controller should have automatically rebuilt the array, or offered you options, a message or something that would have guided you into the rebuild process.