snazy2000 342 Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Few days ago a hard drive in my raid failed suddenly so i bought new hard drive and set to rebuild. 3 days later it was rebuilt. I thought woo! Went to Explorer and the hard drive was set as a RAW file type even though disk manager says its NTFS. So i set about trying to recover the data from the array using EaseUS Data recovery and it found all of my movies and tv shows!! (after 24 hours) I then set it to download the movies and tv shows and i thought lets try some stuff and guess what...... Its all corrupted so looks like ive lost it all I know this has happened to many people in the past and i now know how much it sucks! Im hoping someone will say "here use this to fix the partition" but i doubt it very much lol I guess its time to start collecting again. (I was only thinking few days before that i should get a few hard drives and back it all up!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redshirt 1487 Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 I know your pain. I lost everything a few months ago too. Fortunately my internet package gives me 750 GB a month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snazy2000 342 Posted August 22, 2014 Author Share Posted August 22, 2014 Ive got unlimited but i just dont have the energy to download everything again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snazy2000 342 Posted August 22, 2014 Author Share Posted August 22, 2014 @@Luke Ive never done Usenetting before. Wouldnt know were to start and the cost kind of puts me off Dont really know what package is needed etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6771 Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 (edited) Its all corrupted so looks like ive lost it all I know this has happened to many people in the past and i now know how much it sucks! Damn! Ive never done Usenetting before. Wouldnt know were to start and the cost kind of puts me off Dont really know what package is needed etc Wanna move this to dev forums. We can discuss incognito . Edited August 22, 2014 by CBers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Well, that just sucks.... sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidFX 135 Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 That really sucks, I had the same thing happen to all my pictures. As a person who takes a lot of shots and makes some pocket change on the side it really sucked. Never had it happen with my movie collection though. If you ripped them from your physical collection then I wouldn't even bother with every single movie, if you took the other route and downloaded them then I do have a possible solution that can help start your collection over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snazy2000 342 Posted August 22, 2014 Author Share Posted August 22, 2014 Some were ripped which was all my old movies which ive now got rid of. The rest were downloaded. Just annoyed me that i can see all the files but there all currpted lucky i had been backing photos and music to crashplan. Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidFX 135 Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Trakt and Media Center Master together are amazing, just saying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfonda 25 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 That's why I gave up on raid and started using Stablebit Drivepool. All the files are stored in normal NTFS partitions and I can set it to duplicate the data on multiple drives. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snazy2000 342 Posted August 23, 2014 Author Share Posted August 23, 2014 Ive never had a problem before lost many drives. Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6771 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 (edited) For the record @@snazy2000, I use Drive Bender - similar to Stablebit Drivepool. Both seem a lot less hassle than raid systems . Edited August 23, 2014 by CBers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snazy2000 342 Posted August 23, 2014 Author Share Posted August 23, 2014 Im kind of anti software raid becuase if the os drive dies then everything gone correct? And they require more cpu power ? Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6771 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 They're not raid, more drive pooling. All disks are still NTFS, so if you pull one you can still read it in Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chessdragon136 677 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 (edited) Hey @@snazy2000 - What was the setup of your disks - how many and in what enclusore / pc? I'm a digital forensics guy in my real job so data recovery is a large element of that - if you're in the uk pm me and you're welcome to send the disks to me to look at (how large is the raid - i may not have enough space for it hah) If not, try getting some clones of the disks if you can (the more you have them plugged in the more you write over the raid data and thus more chance you're going to lose data) but look into osforensic - I think they have a free element that may let you do raid recovery and its a bit more professional than other tools out there Edited August 23, 2014 by chessdragon136 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snazy2000 342 Posted August 23, 2014 Author Share Posted August 23, 2014 Will take a look thanks! Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chessdragon136 677 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Let me know how you get on - The other tool you may want to try first is Diskinternals Raid Recovery - Think they offer a full feature trial if i recall correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snazy2000 342 Posted August 23, 2014 Author Share Posted August 23, 2014 Software ive used seem to get the files but dont.seem.to.put the correct parts were they need to.be. :/ fipms become. Fully currupted or just jumpy. Images wont open. Excuse all the . Im on phone and seems to keep pressing at every space.... Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Baron 64 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Would you consider, if your motherboard supports it, a hardware RAID option. This would be transparent to your operating system, it would only see the virtual disk presented to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snazy2000 342 Posted August 23, 2014 Author Share Posted August 23, 2014 I have a raid card. Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chessdragon136 677 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Never use a software raid - From a forensic point of view they are mostly trouble (Except windows 8 storage spaces.. they seem to work well) And yeah recovery tools for "civilian" use are like that - at work I have access to law enforcement software which is just in a different league. When I'm back in on Tuesday I'll ask our resident hardware guy what he uses for RAIDS and see if i can get a copy out to you (depends on licensing of course) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Jones 13 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 I use StableBit DrivePool on my home server (currently 2x2TB and 1x4TB hard drives in a single pool). DrivePool allows specifying how files are duplicated across drives, so personal files such as photos, videos and documents I've got being duplicated across all 3, movies and tv shows are duplicated across 2. I also have crashplan installed which backs everything up in case the worst happens. (raid/drive pooling are not replacement for backups). I also have StableBit Scanner which monitors all of the drives (file system health, SMART data etc.). It will alert you to problems (such as i got alerted to a bad sector error after adding a new hard drive, turned out to be a bad cable). This also either stops drivePool from balancing files to the drive or even evacuates the disk across the other remaining drives if it thinks it is on its way out to be as safe as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6771 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 (edited) Drive Bender has the same functionality as StableBit DrivePool, with HDD Sentinel included for SMART monitoring. Edited August 23, 2014 by CBers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecrispy 23 Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Its happened to many people. And there is one golden rule - never use RAID, and files must always be natively readable. I suppose thats 2 rules. But I'd never use any system with custom disk formats - RAID, Storage Spaces, ZFS, Qnap/Synology etc. There are too many drawbacks and dangers as you've found. Instead, if you use something like FlexRaid, you get most of the benefits with none of the cons. And its much more flexible and cheaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snazy2000 342 Posted August 24, 2014 Author Share Posted August 24, 2014 When got bit more money i want to update my server setup with new motherboard, cpu in the process i will most lickely move to something like Flexraid or something. Been looking at http://www.scan.co.uk/products/asrock-c2750d4i-intel-intel-octa-core-avoton-c2750-ddr3-sata-iii-6gb-s-d-sub-mini-itx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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