LaCie Drive Question, Issue, Concern
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Last time I have a computer come up with a boat load of disk space used and no files found,.. required a full disk wipe to get it back.
Nothing seem to find the errant file that was nearly 180GBs...
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Does remounting work?
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Might be worth breaking out something like Recuva to look through the filesystem. But as this is RAID, I doubt it is going to do any good.
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Try mounting it on a linux system then DD the whole damn thing to another drive and see if you can read it there
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Well my concern is that it could be rebuilding the RAID and that the Red LED is just dead. But I've never had an LED go, on anything ever..
So my concern is that if we drop it, and reconnect it then we'll end up having to try recovering from backup.
Edit: Boss just told me this drive isn't backed up..... (because RAID is it's own backup... isn't it)
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Good idea, get a raw image and try to fix from there.
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That was sarcasm guys...
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Then inform management that USB external consumer drives means, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that at the end of the day the data on those drives was deemed "trivial." No matter what words they used, the actions prove the final intent. Whoever approved that did not agree with the idea that the data was important in any way.
Assuming... no backups either?
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We're letting it run for a bit to see if it is trying to rebuild the Array
as nothing else seems to really fit
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Yes, let it attempt a rebuild. HOWEVER, no amount of drive failure should cause an issue like this until the array itself has failed. This is not a drive rebuilding issue, this is sadly bigger than that.
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Hopefully this is just a corrupt file system table that can be repaired.
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Yeah as someone else said, the decision to put company archive data on an external consumer grade drive simply means that the data is expendable...
So if everyone is at a loss, 'here's to the best'
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Should only take a few hours for the RAID to resilver. Can you disconnect and reconnect the USB? Maybe it just needs to reread the NTFS table.
I assume that we are on NTFS here?
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Yeah windows file server / DC / print server / USB Network Share host on consumer grade equipment......
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@DustinB3403 said:
Yeah windows file server / DC / print server / USB Network Share host on consumer grade equipment......
But is it NTFS? Could be ReFS, FAT32, etc.
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Yes Windows running NTFS
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I like Scotts idea of imaging the drive and working on the image... A simple chkdsk might fix the drive... or it might eat the data.
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Have you run chkdsk yet?
