Formatted 1 side of Raid 0 drive

[Moxley]

Hey guys,

Yesterday I was having a somewhat rough day and was super over-tired, I was just about to do a backup of my 8tb Raid 0 drive with two 4tb g-drives, as I was doing so, I accidentally formatted one of the 4tb sectors of the Raid setup.

That was a year and a half of my filming portfolio! I am just going about whats the best way to potentially get any of this data back? Now, when I spoke on the phone with my brother, we came to terms that I potentially could have set it at a Raid 1 without knowing, although, I dont think this G-drive I have does raid 1 (pardon my computer knowledge, im a film maker!)

When I partitioned the drive, none of the security options were checked and it formatted somewhat quickly. I am currently running a scan on the formatted side of the drive, but from what ive understood, I will not be able to re build it. Is there anyone that can enlighten me on what I have done?

I really really appreciate the help, hopefully everything is recoverable!

Thanks guys,

 

[Moxley]

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/858457-REG/G_Technology_0G02289_G_Raid_with_Thunderbolt_4TB.html

This is the drive I used

 

[Lord_Permafrost]

do you know how much space the drive used to say?
it seems unlikely give the product sheet that you had it in RAID 1.
you have a couple of options,
1) take the drive to a data recover specialist (This is cost, but it's more likely you can get your data back)
2) Download data recovery software and try to get back the RAID 0 Data that way (If you plan on doing option one do not try option 2 first)

ether way do not try to do anything else to the drive.

 

[Moxley]

What kind of stuff do I have to download and how do I go about doing something like that?

 

[S Haran]

There are a few RAID recovery software apps. R-Studio is popular. UFSexplorer is also good.

To recover a RAID0 you need to know, or guess at, the original drive order and stripe size.

I've worked on many cases like this and from your description I think your chances of recovery are good.

 

[Lord_Permafrost]

I would also strongly recommend cloning the drive, i haven't done this kind of work in years but something like Symantec ghost and make a copy of the drive that has failed. if you can write that copy to a new drive (good plan to replace the drive that has failed anyway) and then work on the copy for recovery. this means if you do want to send of the drives for recovery you still have the original drive intact.