• [Advanced!] Restore partition/data from a corrupted RAID 1 setup
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OK This is a bit long, and i'm looking for someone who knows there way around diskpart and a command prompt I have built myself a new computer and taken out a pair of WD RE (enterprise disks) full of very important data. I have put both drives into my new machine and plan on using them independantly from each other. I have formatted 1 of the disks and it works, However I need to recover my data from the other disk, this is where my headache started. When trying to access the disk I get the error "E:\ is not accessible. The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable." I initially thought that downloading some software and repairing the partition table would fix it, but all the software requires registration keys or is spyware. I know that diskpart can be used to fix this but I don't know the commands. I have spent since Monday morning, 8 - 10 hours a day trying to fix this and google the problem, however I have not come to a solution so I have sent the disk off to WD and they have informed me that the disk does work but is missing it's partition data and Windows cannot access it. They sent the disk back and wouldn't offer me any help. There is several years worth of client details, work asset files and my entire business is stored on this drive. I have been quoted $125,000 to recover the data from this particular drive as the data and drive are encrypted. I do not have this money and taking out a loan to cover it seems kind of stupid. If I cannot recover the data I will loose my business. Can someone here guide me on how to recover the partition table of this drive. [editline]22nd April 2013[/editline] Nevermind for now I think the motherboard is toast, it's not picking up my keyboard on boot and I can't access or update the bios.
Take an image of the drive first, quit using it.
Wait, why do you only have this data in one place? use Test disk to rewrite the partition table.
If it's so important to you, just buy a new disk temporarily, rebuild the raid and copy to it? I guess you're using some shite fake raid setup, this right here is the reason to use software raid
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