Corrupt File System on Media Stripe
by Mark Crenshaw
on
Aug 30, 2008 at 4:19:52 pm
Hello all,
MCA 2.02, XW8000, 3 gig RAM, XP Pro SP3, ATTO UL4D
I have a 2.5TB VideoRAID that is striped into 4 partitions. One of them is showing to have a corrupt file system. It shows up but cannot be opened in Win Explorer or My Computer and the media shows offline in MCA. I have looked at the drives in Windows Disk Manager and it appears as Striped, Dynamic, Healthy but the file system column is blank...the others show NTFS.
I have tried to run CHKDSK on the volume but it just flashes and shuts down. I have attemped it from My Computer, right click on the drive and select Tools. And also thru Run as a system command...same results.
Is there any other way to salvage the data? Why hasn't the RAID5 kicked in? Do I need to initiate a rebuild somehow?
Re: Corrupt File System on Media Stripe by Mark Crenshaw on Aug 31, 2008 at 8:42:26 pm
SOLVED:
I was able to recover all of my media files by using a program called Active@ File Recovery. The best $65 I've spent in a long time.
The interface is easy to use, it works on pretty much every type of drive and file system and it gives good feedback during scanning and restoring processes. Best of all, it works!!! It even listed about 170gig of intentionally deleted files that were availabe for potential recovery.
To answer a question from your first post...The RAID technology would have kicked in, in the event of a drive failure. What you had happen was a file system failure or corruption of some sort. All the drives where fine so as far as the raid controller is concerned nothering was wrong. But as far as windows was concerned the file system on the partition was bad (the raid controller does not track that).
So you went down the right path in trying to recover the file system on the partition.
Good to hear all is well,
Dan DeBruno
AVID Technology
Dan DeBruno
AVID Technology
Drive Sub-Systems
Application Engineer
