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Danny O'Grady
Username: azurlake

Registered: N/A
Posted on Monday, Sep 14, 2009 - 13:57:   

Hello,
I've got a RAID5 to recover some data from it, the filesystem is corrupted (the O.S. was reinstalled in just one disk and I think the customer began to initialize the array but somehow stopped it because there's no info (but the MBR) until sector #39963 (execpt on the disk with the reinstalled O.S., but data finishes before that sector and then again, it's got data like the others).

But the reason I'm here is the analysis of a 4-5 GB block in those disks (all seem to have the same kind of data). It looks like the one in this link: http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/1246/analysisr.jpg
or maybe here:
http://yfrog.com/0lanalysisrj
What kind of data would make an analysis look like that one? Encrypted data give flat analysis (this one's flat between two certain points) but never seen this before...
Anybody knows? Thankyou.
P.D.: I haven't found any ANSI-readable text on those drives.
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Stefan Fleischmann
Username: admin

Registered: 1-2001
Posted on Monday, Sep 14, 2009 - 19:51:   

> What kind of data would make an analysis look like that one?

For example uncompressed PCM 16-bit audio data as stored e.g. on audio CDs, as you can see here, or similarly any other collection of signed integer numbers that are centered around 0.

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