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What a nightmare ! My neighbor died from esophageal cancer and the funeral is in one week. He left behind a G5 2.5 DP tower with a dead motherboard, and he put the two 640 GB SATA drives in an Other World Computing external enclosure (Mercury Elite Pro Dual) weeks before he expired. He was NEVER able to achieve access to these drives in this enclosure. (External RAIDs are a no-no).
His grieving wife wants pictures extracted from the drives. There is no known back up and the G5 tower cannot be found.
When connecting the external enclosure by FW800 or USB3, the need to format flag pops up. Disk Utility shows one 1400 GB drive "unformatted". The DIP switches on the enclosure are set to RAID 0. Several data recovery programs find files, but of course any jpg over 50kb looks like venetian blinds, Tried Data Rescue 3, and the drive depicted as 1280 GB does not divide so that a RAID SET for emulation cannot be formed. See here: http://www.prosofteng.com/blog/reco...using-data-rescue-3-by-prosoft-engineering-2/
Tested each drive separately and briefly using a converter and each drive seems intact
What to do now to recover jpg's intact and ASAP ?
1. Try another enclosure ?
2. Insert these drives into my personal G5 tower ? Will these drives work or is RAID very ROM version dependent ?
3. Try different data recovery software ?
4. Which software other than Data Rescue will recover from two drives in one external enclosure believed to be RAID ZERO ?
His grieving wife wants pictures extracted from the drives. There is no known back up and the G5 tower cannot be found.
When connecting the external enclosure by FW800 or USB3, the need to format flag pops up. Disk Utility shows one 1400 GB drive "unformatted". The DIP switches on the enclosure are set to RAID 0. Several data recovery programs find files, but of course any jpg over 50kb looks like venetian blinds, Tried Data Rescue 3, and the drive depicted as 1280 GB does not divide so that a RAID SET for emulation cannot be formed. See here: http://www.prosofteng.com/blog/reco...using-data-rescue-3-by-prosoft-engineering-2/
Tested each drive separately and briefly using a converter and each drive seems intact
What to do now to recover jpg's intact and ASAP ?
1. Try another enclosure ?
2. Insert these drives into my personal G5 tower ? Will these drives work or is RAID very ROM version dependent ?
3. Try different data recovery software ?
4. Which software other than Data Rescue will recover from two drives in one external enclosure believed to be RAID ZERO ?
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