1

Hello ,

I have Hyper-V VMs running on a windows server 2016 . The Partition ( D:) on which the VMs are running , turned into raw format. D: is RAID 5 partition ( 3 disks in place ) .

Is there a way to recover the VMs ? Ease US data recovery wasn’t able to do it .
I am currently analyzing with TestDisk . But I am not sure how to proceed later on for recovery and repair of the partition . Any experts , can tell what to do next ? Thank you .

image
image866×425 135 KB
3 Spice ups
2

I’m removing the screenshot because it looks like it has private information in it… feel free to replace it with an updated version with that blocked out.

1 Spice up
3

If Ease US wasn’t able to find your data (and you don’t have working backups), you should probably look into sending the whole RAID array to a data recovery company.
Your Testdisk program has detected a FAT partition which is pretty darned unusual.

Does your RAID controller show any errors?

1 Spice up
4

Probably not the answer you want, but why are you not restoring from backups?

1 Spice up
5

as it moved further , it changed to NTFS :

image
image870×434 128 KB

As for raid controller , it’s not showing any errors
6

I am not restoring from backups . this is the actual partition with no backups . So I need to be able to recover the VMs from it .

7

I am aware your not, my question is, why are you trying to recover them and not restoring from your backups, it’ll be quicker and you know your restore will work. Trying to recovery data from a disk/RAID corruption or whatever has gone on has limited guarantees the data will be 100%

8

Unfortunately , there are no backcups … Recovering the data is the only option . .VHDX files weren’t found by EaseUS … wondering if testdisk will be able to .

9

Why do people not keep backups.

What happened before this?

Drives don’t turn to raw on their own, either multiple drives have failed, multiple drives have been pulled and reinserted, someone has changed a setting not realising what they’ve done or you’ve been hit with some kind of ransomware.

10

Out of maintenance client . Old server and he had several power losts which caused it I guess …
Saw some answers saying that softwares will recoevr the files within the VMs but not the VMs themselves …

11

You may have to seek the help of recovery experts, the software you are using may not be able recover from RAID.