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Old 03-23-2009, 09:40 PM
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The best search for you to run is a "Complete File Search". If you see the drive as a drive letter, then you can try searching the drive letter as this will default to a "cluster" level search and be relatively fast. The only problem with this is that it is possible that in the changes to the drive the old "cluster boundaries" have changed so not the deleted files are offset and are not recovered.

Try this search, and if you don't start getting files back, then run it again on the physical drive, which defaults to a sector scan.

The first part of this search looks at the Master File Table for deleted files - you will only have a new MFT for your drive so this is of no use to you but should not take long. The second part of this search is where it seeks the header and footer of the file types you selected. These files are returned as "Recovered_FileType_x".

I have not really tested any of the tools that claim to be good at raid recovery so its hard to recommend any. The best bet is to search google and give a few a try.
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