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<blockquote data-quote="jdeg" data-source="post: 344978" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>I'm amazed that worked! What software did you use? Luckily my drive that failed was still spinning, it just has bad sectors (9 to be exact).</p><p></p><p>Oh, and if anyone is curious, the program I ended up using is called ddrescue. You kind of have to know what you're doing with linux command prompts. The command I ran looked like this: <em>ddrescue -d -f -r3 /dev/dm-0 "/media/Storage 2/main_drive/main_drive.img" "/media/Storage 2/main_drive/rescue.log" </em> which means, image drive dm-0 to /media/Storage 2, which is just my large storage drive. You can also image directly to a new drive, but I did it to a file on an existing drive since I don't have the new drive yet and I wasn't sure it was going to work. </p><p></p><p>There are other programs out there, but most of them run on top of windows only. Since my primary partition went I would've had to reload windows fresh on a new drive, get windows & the program to recognize the damaged RAID partition, and hope that it works.</p><p></p><p>FYI, you can use ddrescue to image and restore anything - even an sd card gone bad. It'll 0 out the bad sectors so everything will be in order when loaded onto a new card.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jdeg, post: 344978, member: 1"] I'm amazed that worked! What software did you use? Luckily my drive that failed was still spinning, it just has bad sectors (9 to be exact). Oh, and if anyone is curious, the program I ended up using is called ddrescue. You kind of have to know what you're doing with linux command prompts. The command I ran looked like this: [I]ddrescue -d -f -r3 /dev/dm-0 "/media/Storage 2/main_drive/main_drive.img" "/media/Storage 2/main_drive/rescue.log" [/I] which means, image drive dm-0 to /media/Storage 2, which is just my large storage drive. You can also image directly to a new drive, but I did it to a file on an existing drive since I don't have the new drive yet and I wasn't sure it was going to work. There are other programs out there, but most of them run on top of windows only. Since my primary partition went I would've had to reload windows fresh on a new drive, get windows & the program to recognize the damaged RAID partition, and hope that it works. FYI, you can use ddrescue to image and restore anything - even an sd card gone bad. It'll 0 out the bad sectors so everything will be in order when loaded onto a new card. [/QUOTE]
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