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skydudie · Joined: 04 Aug 2010 Posts: 1

Hi, I have 2 hard drives which I had used in my Linksys mediahub. One being a WD5000AVVS which came with my mediahub and the other being a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 which I had just gotten back from Seagate repair for its crapped up firmware.

Being the idiot that I am I thought it would be a good idea to hook them up in Raid 0. Well everything worked fine for about a week. Then the Media hub started having problems accessing the files. So I contacted Linksys Support which proved to be a complete waste of time.

So I decided to check if the drives would work in Ubuntu. After booting into Ubuntu, the first drive, the WD one, was working fine. But the Barracuda did not show any partitions. So after using alot of HDD diagnostic tools I Found that the first 40 sectors are corrupted and that I have no MBR or partition tables intact.

I then ran a recovery program which says that it managed to find files.
So I'm thinking all the data is there but how do I retrieve it?

My question is, is there anyway to rebuild the MBR and partition table and still have all the data intact?
Since it is Raid 0 shouldn't the MBR and Partition table for both dives be similar?

Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance

albertnicolie · Guest

Hi
Let me guide you through the steps to let you reach a solution to your problem.
1. Confirm first which Raid you have in your computer - 64 kb, 128 Kb, 256 kb, or 512 kb
2. Check whether the two drives are being detected or not.
3. Is the data in both the drives? If yes you need to connect both the drivers simultaneously while scanning an drecovering Data.
4. Each RAID has its own data sectors so may be your RAID is not having 40 corrupt sectors as observed by you.
5. You have a third Hard drive ready at the time of recovering data from your two hard drives to store them.
You can use Windows data Recovery Software to do this as I have already tried my luck with this and it comes good at that time. In a similar situation earlier I have lost the data doing these myself and then I got this Windows data Recovery Software for my hard drives. You may also opt for a good data recovery service provider nearby your area. Good luck hope you can manage doing it yourself.