My system produced a blinking red light and would not allow me to access my data. After contacting technical support I was told that the Raid Array had failed and needed to be rebuilt. They instructed me as to how to accomplish that. The raid restructuring should have run for 4-5 hours, but instead ran for 5 days. I contacted technical support again and was told that the frame was in an endless loop and needed to be restarted. They had me unplug it and power it back up, but it never came back up. Technical support had me download their TFPT.exe utility as they said that the kernal (of the device) had failed to load. They were excited when their TFPT.exeutility seemingly communicated with the drive, but they were unable to help me reflash the unit.
They told me my best chance for recovery was to use Ubuntu to communicate with the drive.
After successfully installing Ubuntu on my SATA enabled PC, I was unable to mount the partitions and the error was something about Raid. I tried reading both drives and I got the same error. Using Gparted, which I had to find and install on my Ubuntu system, it got the same errors and could not recognize the partitions. It could see them but they had yellow exclamation marks on the partitions I wanted to mount.
After reading several blogs and other postings on the internet I found a product that looked promising, but the cost was $5000 for a single user license.
Data recovery was being offered at many locations at prices starting at $500.
I searched and searched for an answer and found a false listing here on this forum that stated that a product called LTOOLS could read an XFS file system, but when I looked further this product could do no such thing.
Then I found my answer, a product called "Raise Data Recovery for XFS", which only costs about $30.
http://www.filebuzz.com/files/Collateral_Damage/1.html
With Raise Data Recovery for XFS you may undelete your recently deleted files from XFS file system as well as recover lost information even after severe file system damage. The software is intended for self-service recovery of lost information after file deletion, file system damage, disk partitions modifications, format and other factors caused data loss. The software contains comprehensive tool set to recover lost information in most situations that might occur: it has set of deterministic and heuristic algorithms which allow to find lost information even in case of very severe file system damage. As the last chance you could enable the modern IntelliRAW(tm) engine that allows to recover good files even after complete file system metadata destruction and produce fair enough recovery result. The features set include: - access to files on XFS-formatted partitions; - true 'undelete' for recently deleted files; - lost partitions recovery; - file system reconstruction for damaged file systems; - raw files recovery (by signature) with IntelliRAW.
License: Shareware | Price: $29.94 | Size: 1.0 MB | Downloads (115)
Platform: Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000 , Windows Vista
I had this problem. You need to put the drive into an enclosure and used Ubunto that I booted from a disk. I used an Antec VERIS and recovered all of my data. I was using the drive in RAID 1 mode.