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[toddac]

Hello- I have the fun task of trying to save my boss's WHS v1 server he runs @ home. I put together the hardware and set it up for him at Christmas time 2010. He has a TON of movies on it with MyMovies and a large collection of family pics and work related files - QuickBooks - etc.

He does NOT have a backup of anything - he always promised he would hook up an external WD USB drive. IT didn't happen.

Scenario leading up to problems:
He was running MCEBuddy - to remove commercials and shrink down recorded TV and was having problems with the software. He decided to remove it and apparently during the uninstall process - it somehow "looked" like it was deleting everything from the D: partition. He tried to stop it and kill the process as it looked strange to be removing so many files and directories.

What he's left with now is close to 8TB of free space! The folders are all gone - everything is missing off of the DE spanned disks. He bought a copy of WinDelete to try to recover things. He can see tons and tons of files with WinDelete - and recovering them seems to work to an external USB drive....but later the jpg family photos or the Quickbooks file is corrupt. Everything that gets restored from the drive storage is corrupted. WinDelete can see everything and they show file size and type - but nothing can actually be opened later with a different PC.

I'm looking for suggestions for a service or utility that will work better than WinDelete. I don't think it was necessarily a fault of Drive Extender or anything else - other than a faulty uninstall. At least that's all the info I have as to what caused the problem.

Can a data recovery service help here? I know it's not RAID and that M$ has now ditched DE with WHS 2011....but this is what I have to work with. I've recommended not sending the box into a recovery service unless they can specificall state they have experience with WHS v1 (ie Drive Extender).

Any recommendatons of services in the US and/or recovery utilities that will understand how to deal with DE would be greatly appreciated. Anyone with a similar story that has had success - I'd love to hear from you!

Many thanks!

[toddac]

Not much activity out here. I wonder how much longer this site will stay up. This post has had 63 views - and not one reply? Ouch. I'm sure someone has worked with these issues before with WHS v1.

I guess I need to look for a more active forum on some other websites.

[GaPony]

I think you can take the silence as fairly loud statement that your boss is essentially screwed.