What's lost, Raid 0 array or partition?

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Hi Lance,

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 22:32:30 UTC, sraiper@yahoo.com (sraiper) wrote:

>
> Before I strike to restore the raid/data, I'd like to be sure which
> part makes the problem? Is raid array bad or the partition is lost, or
> both? If you know any good software (free) for raid 0/partition
> recovery, please let me know.

I can't help you with the Raid-0 aspect, but you can make a fairly
good analysis of partitioning (even damaged/deleted stuff) using
the 'DFSDISK' procedure in my DFSee tool.

One of the resulting files, 'DFSDISKI.SK1' is a large ASCII file
with many details about partition-records, bootsectors and so on ...

There is an OS2, Windows and a DOS version, but since Windows
does not boot, you would probably need to use the DOS version.
The easiest way to do that is download the bootable diskette in:

http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee6xx_dsk.zip

Running the executable inside (DOS format) will create a bootable
diskettes from an empty formatted one in the A: drive ...

Then, on the blue boot-menu you should get, select:

3 - Automatic analysis of partition-table problems for all disks

This is the same as the manual 'DFSDISK' procedure (UNFDISK).
In your case it should generate FOUR files for every disk, so a
total of 8 files.

The software can be run in evaluation mode without a registration
for over a month.

Regards, JvW

--
Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee: http://www.dfsee.com