Single HDD w/ 6 partitions in Raid 5 data recovery?

[killerhurtalot]

So basically the company set the server up with 1x 2 TB HDD. They partitioned that one HDD into 6 different partitions of varying sizes and set the entire set-up into a raid 5 set-up.

Now today, we got partition 1 in the HDD that failed (boot-up detects Partition 0,2,3,4,5)

I know that the usual recovery for multi-HDD Raid 5 set-up is just replace the failed hard drive and go into partition recovery mode, but I have no idea how to recover the data from the corrupted/failed partition on a single HDD w/ 6 partitions in Raid 5 mode.

Anyone have any idea how to fix the issue or would we have to pay our contractor $1000 to get the data back and fix the issue?

I was also thinking of making the server into a Raid 5+1 set-up so there's a redundant copy as back up if/when it fails again.

 

[ss202sl]

Something's wrong. Raid takes the entire drive, not a partition. You need to explain how the raid was set up.
Also raid 5 need 3 drives.

Don't you have a backup of the data?

 

[USAFRet]

So basically the company set the server up with 1x 2 TB HDD. They partitioned that one HDD into 6 different partitions of varying sizes and set the entire set-up into a raid 5 set-up.

That is all kinds of 100% wrong. I'm not even sure how that is actually possible.

 

[killerhurtalot]

So basically the company set the server up with 1x 2 TB HDD. They partitioned that one HDD into 6 different partitions of varying sizes and set the entire set-up into a raid 5 set-up.

That is all kinds of 100% wrong. I'm not even sure how that is actually possible.

Got it. I took my co-worker's word and he was wrong.

It's 6 HDDs in Raid 5. I'll just pop out the failed HDD and insert a new one in and go into data recovery.

 

[USAFRet]

And after, set up an actual backup situation. Just because you have all that in a RAID is no guarantee of data loss prevention.