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Recovering Volume Set

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by bill in dallas

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A client had a NT4 Server crash and I had to reformat and reinstall. Of course, someone had lost the ERD and I forgot that he had a volume set on that PC. The PC was not being used as a server, so I elected to reinstall Workststion. And to add finalinsult to injury, the client realizes that a backup would be great but he just hasn't not gotten around to it yet. OOPS

Now of course it will not recognize the volume set. I have other installations of NT Server in that office, but of course, they will not recognize the volume set since it was not created on that box.

Do I have alternatives besides ritual suicide? Any technique available that would not cost a fortune to recover the data?

Help.

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by dklippert

You might try crossing your fingers and/or spitting in the corner of the room. Data?s probably lost, but take a look at these articles. Type the Q number in the search box of technet.microsoft.com.

Recovering NTFS Boot Sector on NTFS Partitions
Q153973
Drive in Volume Set Is Missing After You Use Repair Process

Q246799
FTedit.exe: What You Can and Can't Use It For

Q149927

Use Ftedit.exe to Recover Fault Tolerant Disk Configuration

Q131658

by ken wolf

Have you looked into drive recovery software? Not to endorse a particular product, I have used RecoverNT and has worked for me. Check out this site for more information
http://www.lc-tech.com/RecoverNT.asp
Hope this url didn't wrap and you cancut and paste.
Good Luck!
Ken

by bill in dallas

I had to give in and try this method. The trial version demonstrated that the product works and I elected to invest in this software. The tech support people at LC Technologies could not have been nicer and I was able to recover most of my data (maybe 95% or so). It is a time consuming process, but it worked.

by bhrdwh

Unless you buy recovery tools & use them, I dont see any other way to recover the lost volume.

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