On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 9:31 AM, theelectricengineer@xxxxxxxxx <theelectricengineer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello good people of the linux-raid group, > > I really need your help with my RAID1 that has completely failed, on which I have photos of my beloved deceased grandparents. > > I had the RAID1 array for about 3 years, and I had replaced one of the drives when it failed about one year ago. All worked fine. > > A few weeks ago, I bought a new computer and wanted to move the array to the new computer. > I read several guides, and thought that all I had to do was turn both computers off, move the drives, and in the new computer execute: mdadm --assemble --scan > which I did. > > The output was: mdadm: /dev/sdb has no superblock - assembly aborted > > I panicked, moved the drives back, but the old RAID wouldn't start! > The old computer too says that one of the drives has no superblock > and, even worse, that the other is UNALLOCATED SPACE!!! > > I don't understand why the partition on the second drive disappeared, and I'm so worried. > > PLEASE, PLEASE help me... > > I read the wiki pages (raid wiki kernel), but I'm afraid to run any commands that might make things worse. > > I would be very happy if I could restore the data from either one of the drives, > and copy it to the new drives in my new computer (as I should have done before moving the drives). > Yadiv - One more piece of information that would be helpful is the partition tables for each drive: # fdisk -l /dev/sdb /dev/sdc -- George Rapp (Pataskala, OH) Home: george.rapp -- at -- gmail.com LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgerapp Phone: +1 740 936 RAPP (740 936 7277) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
