X-Raid Recovery using PC(Windows/Linux)

Found some info.
http://www.ext2fsd.com/?page_id=16
http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs

Can anyone recommend one of those?

Well this was a populated part of the forum...

After a lot of searching the web I have found out A LOT of different ways, and 95% of em don't work.
You can do it by connecting it to your PC, booting in to Linux(or Ubunto for example) and using R-Linux.
The bad part is that R-linux cost 80$ and the free version can only restore 64kb in file size :/

Will update as soon as a similar windows program is done scanning the HDD. A free one btw.

UPDATE!]
Windows recovery=FAIL!!
The though part is that is "works" but every file inside a specific extension folder. Lets say for example I got "blah.zip". That file will be shown as "00000000001.zip" inside the folder "Compressed files (zip)".... And as you guessed right, what happens when you got 1000 zip? Completely random named between 000000000001-000000000001000.zip. So good luck find and renaming all the files.

Ubuntu recovery=WIN!!
The savior in all this was Ubuntu witch I ran from a boot'able USB stick.
Using the program "R-Studio for Linux" I got back the folder structure and was able to recover ALL files :D :D :D


IF you can find R-Studio for windows and make it to work, please let me know!

Can you detail how you used R-Studio to recover data off of your hard drives? How was your ReadyNAS failing? I am in a situation where i had a drive fail. I replaced it, but now my shares are inaccessible, and when i ssh into it, i don't see the files at all. So if you could provide help, I would greatly appreciate it.

TheWierd wrote:
Ubuntu recovery=WIN!! The savior in all this was Ubuntu witch I ran from a boot'able USB stick. Using the program "R-Studio for Linux" I got back the folder structure and was able to recover ALL files :D :D :D

Please clarify too that you used R-Studio for Linux FREE? You'd said free-for-Windows was limited...

To Anyone reading this. Anyone that can help us recover this data without a clean room we will reward financially. We are trying to recover some deleted luns using r-studio have been unsuccessful. If someone would please give me a call at 9126678900 that would be great.

hi maxblack,


are you able to describe which settings you used in r-studio?


Regards
Chris

Man... it stinks when people come to forums looking for help, find a solution, but don't post it for the next guy.

cameronjones wrote:
Man... it stinks when people come to forums looking for help, find a solution, but don't post it for the next guy.

Well, I think the OP (TheWierd) did find his solution. The question asked/unanswered of him by me was "did you succeed using the Free version". If you want to try what he did, AFAICT you would start with the "for Linux" software at the bottom of this page:

http://www.r-tt.com/

which TheWierd sadi he ran under Ubuntu.

I successfully recovered data from a lost volume/partition on a Duo V2 with RAID X2 using R-Studio 6.1 for Windows on a WIn7 Pro 64bit machine. 250Gigs of data, 14hours to create image, 12 hours to scan it and 3 hours to restore. The folder structure was preserved. Hope this helps other people (late post I know!)