What You See:
- You manually recreated the RAID 6 array using the same drives
- System boots — but volume is empty, corrupt, or partially accessible
- File names may appear but files fail to open or contain junk data
What It Likely Means:
- Drive order or parity layout was incorrect
- You wrote a new config over the original metadata
- Logical RAID structure doesn’t match filesystem expectations
What NOT To Do:
- Don’t write new data to the volume — every write destroys recovery options
- Don’t delete or reformat the array
- Don’t run disk repair utilities (chkdsk, fsck) on a bad RAID map
What You CAN Do:
- Power down immediately — avoid more writes
- Use JeannieLite to analyze block patterns and parity position
- Recover original metadata structure from backup sectors (if available)
Your files aren’t gone — they’re just being read the wrong way. We reverse engineer the real layout and recover what others can’t.