From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 1 16:09:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D742016A4DA for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 16:09:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from atom.powers@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B3E343D70 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 16:09:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atom.powers@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id x3so292613nzd for ; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:09:08 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=uM/jFmSQ56RvXXJvMxmr6Du4BFF7G8JFUYtceL2/hv7gltmNjCmKBsdxqnZS5HiIhE6AONLvFikhsfBaNp2B1iEYeXfMtB+10mBSjtEHNOEcQbwYTyw87X3tLyOrck4B8xhdl5h8mk8ILwQIToF6+3/lKLMO6HarrOk21ecp36w= Received: by 10.35.117.5 with SMTP id u5mr5921398pym; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:09:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.110.6 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 09:09:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 09:09:08 -0700 From: "Atom Powers" To: justin@pcmedicsite.com In-Reply-To: <000001c6b4c5$19e54290$6b08a8c0@pcmoperations> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <000001c6b4c5$19e54290$6b08a8c0@pcmoperations> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID Repair X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:09:09 -0000 On 7/31/06, Justin wrote: > > My question is: Is there a way to scan the RAID, and recover the NTFS > partition? I've Google'd, but only come up with half results claiming that > a "dd" script can be written, reading 64K chunks off of each drive and > rebuilding a complete image. I also have a 250GB HDD on a separate > controller that is currently blank where I can rebuild this image if needed. > In my opinion you are pretty much out of luck. Sure, it might be possible to write a dd script that can put the chunks back togeather onto a new volume. But the amount of work it would take almost always exceeds the value of the data you are trying to recover. Have you tried swapping the drive positions? 0->1, 1->0. -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers--