Recover XFS File System from RAID1

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We have a Buffalo TeraStation that has 4x 250gb hard drives in it.
Two of those hard drives were in RAID1 with a XFS file system.
I formatted this partition and need to recover some files from it.
Since it is RAID1, i can just pull out one hard drive and the information should be on it somewhere, right?
I have Hiren's Boot CD, so which program on that CD should i use to recover an XFS file system. If there isn't one on there, what program should i use?
 
If they were still in RAID1 when you formatted the data is gone from both drives.
 
I have tried a program called "EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard" and it was able to find all of my RAW data. None of the file names or folders were able to be recovered.
I am guessing this happened because this program can not deal with the XFS file system.
The information is there, i just need a program that will be able to extract it in the correct file/folder structure.
 
I believe you can't see the filenames properly because your undelete utility can't properly read the XFS filesystem. OTOH, Linux utilities may not have the XFS recovery tools either. TBH, I think you kinda shafted yourself when you formatted the partition with the RAID system still intact.
 
neo86 said:
According to WikiPedia there is no undelete in XFS, and the software you used doesn't claim to support XFS. I'm not saying I doubt what you did, but you sure got lucky. :p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFS
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/help/support-media.htm
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Got beat.

Basically, you're SOL. There are NO recovery tools for XFS. That's one of its drawbacks. Yes, you can do a raw file search like you did, but in terms of directory structure, file names, etc. it's all gone.
 
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