The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Shomval on 2024-08-27 08:41:57.
crossposting to this sub since r/datarecovery only has 1.7k members vs the 770k in here
I got this enclosure recently: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B086YCWCRG
And have been using it just fine for the past few months. These are the drives I have:
- 4tb WD RED (contains all the data I care about)
- 16tb Seagate Seagate Exos X18 16TB
- 16tb Seagate Seagate Exos X18 16TB
I thought I'd make a Raid 1 drive with the other drives 2 & 3. I proceeded to do it and selected the drives correctly (I was aware you'll need to reformat drives when creating new raid partitions), however after the operation was complete, it seems like the software for the enclosure "ORICO HW RAID Manager" wiped all of them? Including the 1st one I didn't want to do anything to. The warning did not indicate that it'll impact all drives connected, even the ones you didn't intend to action.
I then couldn't view them in file explorer, and to be able to see them I had to open Disk Management, format the new 16tb volume as a new volume to see it again.
It seems like the same will need to be done for the 4tb drive to even run Recuva if anything is salvageable, but I am hesitating to run another format on the 4tb drive in the event it make it even 'worse' if that makes sense. I get the feeling I deleted what was called the partition table? Might be wrong.
I suspect I have lost all possibility of recovering the data, but if someone out there knew something more about data recovery and knew of a better course of action, do let me know?
- To proceed with the reformat and hope Recuva still picks it up, or
- Go somewhere else/use another method to recover the data
(let me know your fav data recovery tools, I stayed w Recuva cause I've used it for years and it's free)
update: I found TestDisk/PhotoRec but like Recuva, it doesn't detect the drive/lost partition