I have a 32Tb NTFS RAID 5 volume. 5x8tb SATA, LSI 9361i+Supercap.
Was working fine until it started behaving strange on day - drive name vanished and data seemed to vanish. Then rebooted, Windows 10, wanted to do a check when booting but I skipped it. Data seemed to be there, but then after reboots, windows just crashes.
If I disconnect the drives Windows boots fine, then if I hot plug them and import the foreign configuration, Windows crashes in a few seconds. I booted into a Linux live CD, that almost boots but crashes.
Any ideas how I can access this volume to try and recover data if just mounting it crashes in Windows and Linux?
OS is just Windows 10 because I have not finished properly setting up the server. I migrated data from old server to this and never got round to installing Server 2019. The linux distro is actually an older Acronis Live CD.
I disconnected one drive from the RAID and plugged in another drive, RAID controller is happy to rebuild the volume, so it seems like file system corruption rather than a hardware issue.
I've moved drives around to check it's not a backplane fault. I also have 6x8tb SATA set up as RAID 6 which are working fine which seems to rule out all hardware issues.
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