Because the Master Boot Record is so vital to the BeyondRAID filing system, a tool should be added to the Drobo Dashboard which allows the user in such a case as mine to rebuild this sector in the event of catastrophic data failure. All I did was try to replace one bad drive, and dual disk redundancy was enabled as well, so it should have had no problem. I then began the vigorous task of ensuring the data on the drive was still working, and I did find a few files that were corrupt, but nothing too major.Īlthough I was able to rebuild most of the data on the Drobo, the issue that corrupted the Master Boot Record in the first place is still at large. I rebuilt the structure of the drive just to be safe, and I found it did have many errors on it, which were then corrected. I ran Disk Warrior and it finally recognized the drive. Type "Y" for yes to accept that you are modifying the Master Boot Record.įor the symptoms I mentioned in previous post, almost immediately the Drobo mounted on the desktop with what appeared to be the correct file structure. uses FDISK to partition its Master Boot Record and EFI.Ĭhoose - To recreate the Master Boot Record. Run the TestDisk application from the folder you unzipped it into.Ĭhoose unless you require a log file.Ĭhoose and - Warning - is what I chose as it was the only externally connected hard drive I had (with 17TB labelled).Ĭhoose, even though the Mac uses partitions that are formatted as HFI+ Drobo Inc.
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(This tool should only be used if no other tools such as Disk Warrior and Tech Tool Pro can see the drive AND the drive does not mount) The steps I took to reestablish a connection with my Drobo are as follows:
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TestDisk is an application that runs within a Terminal window, so it is not quite user-friendly however, I was able to re-establish a full mount of the Drobo Disk.At least to a point where I could run Disk Warrior and rebuild the drive, which I completed successfully. The tool is called TestDisk 6.13 ( ), which is an open source program for all variants of Operating Systems. I did, however, find another tool that was able to see the drive and its current file structure. "Although I did try some of the tools that were recommended, non of them were able to recognize the Drobo properly.
This is the solution to my problem which I had with Drobo, I currently have a trouble ticket open with them and your situation looks similar.
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