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That makes sense. I do see parts of the image in most of them, so maybe there’s hope.
Any specific type of tool I should look for?
If the photos show half gray or partially visible, there’s a decent chance repair might work. I’ve had some images come back usable that way.
If they were totally blank, then it’d be a different story
Exactly. Think of it like this:
– Recovery = getting files back
– Repair = fixing broken files
You’re already in the repair phase
Nah, once the files are already recovered, other recovery tools won’t magically improve them.
You’re past that stage. Now it’s more about fixing the corrupted files themselves.
This has now happened twice in short time. A HD fail and the Synology server enters a state of horriblis. GUI does not work, but I can SSH to it. Most commands does not work, ie. neither restarting nginx nor sudo reboot. But I can navigate the file system, get htop to run (hardly any processes are running).
A forced restart (button) is the only way I have got to work. I have users requiring the server to be online, so not too much time with experimenting and diagnosing.
Server is rs18016xs+ running 7.2.2. It is in a VMM cluster with two other similar servers. All VMs also crash when this happens with a storage failure error.
RAID is RAID-6 with 17 x 12TB harddrives. It has a assigned spare drive with “automatic rebuild” checked. Disks are WD SAS He drives in expansion module. Two Intel 1TB SSDs as cache.
The server recognizes that the drive is dead, but instead of blocking the dead drive and start automatic rebuild on the designated spare disk it just goes bonkers. Why is this? A failing drive in a RAID-6 should not make anything fail; just log, alert and automatic reallocate data to spare.
Which logs should I take a look at now in retrospect to get any clues to what is going on?
Got it. So recovery won’t improve anything now? I was thinking maybe try another recovery app.
At this point, running recovery again won’t help much. You already got what was left.
What you can try now is a photo repair tool. Those can sometimes rebuild the image if enough data is intact.
Not ideal, yeah. Once overwritten, that data is basically gone.
But since your photos are partially opening, it means some data is still there. That’s actually better than completely dead files.
OS: Windows 11
I wanted two hard drives to mirror each other., so RAID 1 seemed good.
I had some software that came with the external caddy I have for these hard drives, which made the RAID 1 array.
Everything seemed to work fine.
I just went to back some stuff up to it and it seemed very, VERY slow at writing to it.
I tried to “safely remove hardware” but it wasn’t having any of it, so I just powered off the external caddy.
After plugging it in again, Windows 11 now says “The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable”.
I have tried each disk individually but I get the same error.
Where do I go from here?
I am happy to get rid of the RAID as it seems more problems than it’s worth.
If I delete the RAID (using the software), will it also delete the data?
Looked in Disk Management and it shows as a RAW volume.
Doing a chkdsk on it now.
Yeah… I didn’t realize that mattered. I used it normally for like 2–3 days before trying recovery.
So I guess I made it worse?
I have a dell poweredge with PERC H700 / Raid with 8 physical disk drive array / Raid 0
This morning drive 3 was showing offline. I forced it to go online and now the drive 3 shows missing.
I have data that needs to be retrieved. The poweredge have IDRAC and I can give remote access to the unit to anyone who can help. I will also pay for your time. Appreciate if someone can help to bring drive 3 online again and copy the data out.
Yeah I’ve seen this before. Especially if the phone was used after deletion. New data can overwrite parts of old photos, so what you recover isn’t always complete.
Did you keep using the phone before recovery?
That usually means the recovery was only partially successful. The file structure is there, but parts of the actual image data are missing or corrupted.Pretty common with phone storage honestly.
So I messed up pretty bad. I accidentally deleted a bunch of photos from my Android phone last week and used a recovery app to get them back. It did recover most of them, but now a lot of those photos either won’t open or show like half gray / half image.
Some files open partially, some just throw an error. File sizes look normal though.
Did the recovery fail or is there still a way to fix these?
Look for an Android data recovery software that also has a photo repair option, or a dedicated image repair tool. Some of them use a reference image to rebuild corrupted ones.
Just don’t expect 100% recovery. But you might still save a good chunk of those photos.