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I have a 2.2tb array (six 500gb drives in a RAID 5) with one 2.0tb partition (the maximum allowed by Windows). The remaining 200gb is just unused.

A drive failed in the array (which had about 1tb of files on it at the time). I replaced it, rebuilt the array (apparently successfully), but got a disk read error on trying to boot Windows. I don't know why. I deleted the array, and rebuilt it as a 4-disk RAID 5 with 2 hotspares, and installed Windows.

Then someone suggested your product. So I deleted the array again, and rebuilt it as it was originally, then installed Windows and then the application.

My first try I used the Complete Format Recover option but selected the drive letter rather than the physical drive (sector search) since there was only one partition and the leftover disk space from the array was unusable. This search yielded about 50,000 (mostly corrupted) files. However, no OS files were found, and there was no file structure rebuilt (the OS file counter never even appeared in the progress dialog). The only file types found were the default ones selected.

How should I proceed? Would I have a better chance of finding OS files with a physical drive search instead? If no OS files are found with either a drive letter or physical drive search, will I have to do an explicit search for the file types I'm interested in (text files, for example, which are not part of the default list of types)? If it matters, the Windows installed in all cases was/is Server 2008.

Lastly, since RMF can detect when a file is corrupted in the previewer, is there a way to hide those files from the list? With 50,000 anonymous files to sort through, such an ability would be a huge help.