LH4 HDD Issue

[Robert Haselman]

Hi, I added 3 36gb hdd to a set of 3 9gb hdd's. I seem to have lost all of my data on the original 3 drives. I used netraid to set all 6 drives together. Can I recover the data from the original 3?
Thanks.

[Andrew Rutter]

hi robert,

you might be lucky? depends upon how you did the array? you might now realise the importance of backups

if you initialized the new volume then you've probably lost it.

if you just re created it then you should be able to just reconfigure the 3 original drives as before but dont initialize the array

putting 3 36's with 3 9's isnt really a good idea either as you would only be able to use 9gb of the 36gb disks aswell. you would be better 3 9's one volume and 3 36's as another volume.

Andy

[e4services · Accepted solution]

Usually you would have created a second logical drive from the 3 newly inserted drives. You would have had to delete the existing logical drive of 9GB to create a new logical adding the 36 to the 9s but all you would do there is add 9gb of each 9 to the 9s, tracating each nine.
So if you did the former, you would have not lost the data on the 9s, so I assume the second.
"Intializing" is the formating of the Logical Drive the controller created to present to the OS, and in the process you would have had to say NO to Initializng, so you probably have and everything is lost.

[Robert Haselman]

Thanks for the reply's what a bummer, I lost alot of hard work.