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Michgan
Dec 29, 2025Aspirant
RND6000 Remove inactive volumes Disk 1,2,3,4,6
Hello, I am requesting your assistance in my attempt to recover my data following a failure of one of my hard drives (slot 5) on my RNDP-6000 running under OS6. 1°) I replaced my defect...
StephenB
Dec 30, 2025Guru - Experienced User
Michgan wrote:1°) I replaced my defective slot5 hard drive (4 to) with a smaller one (3 to) so as not to lose any data.
5°) I deleted the 1 to partition from disk 6
Both of these actions were mistakes, and as a result you might not be able to save your data.
Likely you will need data recovery - either
- getting a USB enclosure+purchasing recovery software that supports both linux RAID and BTRFS
- contracting with a company that does data recovery
Was the defective disk completely dead? Do you still have it (not erased or reformatted)?
Michgan
Dec 30, 2025Aspirant
No, I don't think it was completely dead (the volume had gone to dead and errors were accumulating).
The disk was coming to the end of its warranty, so I sent it back quickly.
For recovery, do I need to connect all the RAID disks to USB?
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