RAID Hard Disk Drive Data Recovery

RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. It is a storage technology which is used to combine multiple disks into a single logical unit. Based on the performance and redundancy data is distributed in one or several ways on these units. It offers fault tolerance and higher protection against data loss than a single hard drive. Another advantage of RAID is that multiple disks working together increase overall system performance. Although it provides high performance, RAID drives are prone to severe data loss issues. However, sometimes you may suffer data loss from RAID hard drive due to system crash, virus attack or abrupt power surge.

As a result of this, you may lose entire file and folders stored on RAID hard drive. In such unfortunate situations, you can simply make use of Recover My Hard Drive software. It has built-in scanning algorithms to perform rigorous scanning of RAID hard drive to retrieve files including documents, pictures, audio, video, spreadsheets, email messages, etc based on their unique signatures. With the help of this award-winning software, it’s possible to recover files from commonly used RAID levels including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10. In addition, you can use this software to retrieve lost partition after System Restore in Windows OS with great ease.

Reasons behind data loss from RAID Hard Drive:

• Human Mistakes: There can be instances when you end up accidentally delete files stored on RAID hard drive. As a result of this, you may lose entire data stored on RAID hard drive.
• Sudden Formatting: There can be the instances where you may mistakenly format RAID hard drive, which can lead to severe data loss.
• MBR Corruption: A partition table store all the details regarding partitions. If any sort of corruption occurs to this table, it can lead to RAID hard drive inaccessibility. As a result of this, you may lose entire data from RAID drive.
• Bad Sectors: Most of the times, due to frequent or abrupt power fluctuations can result in a sudden system shutdown. As a result of this, it increases the chances of bad sectors which in turn, can corrupt RAID drive leading to data loss.
• Virus Infection: At times, severe virus or malware attacks can cause serious damage to the data stored on RAID drive. As an outcome of this, you may lose entire data from RAID drive.
• Changing File System: At certain times, if any sort of interruption occurs while converting the file system from one to another can leads to severe data loss from the RAID drive.

Irrespective of these above-mentioned reasons, there are various other causes including software malfunction, OS crash, hardware failure, OS reinstallation, using unreliable third-party tools and many more. To get rid of these unfortunate situations, one should take proper data back up from RAID hard drive to other external storage devices. In addition, one should immediately stop using RAID drive soon after data loss to prevent data overwriting. Instead, without any worries, you can simply make use of RAID Recovery software. The tool can recover data from FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, and exFAT file system with great ease. Additionally, you can employ this software to restore files from corrupted hard drive with utmost ease.

Moreover, it has the ability to create a disk image of a RAID hard drive having bad sectors and later it allows processing the create disk image file to recovers files and folders. Further, you can employ this software to get back data from hard drive of types like SATA, SCSI, IDE, etc supported by Seagate, Hitachi, Maxtor, Kingston, etc. Additionally, it has the potential to retrieve data from the FireWire drive, Pen drive, USB flash drive, Thumb drive, etc. With the aid of this powerful toolkit, it’s possible to get back files from RAID hard drive compatible on latest versions of Windows OS 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, etc.

Steps to Retrieve Files from RAID Hard Drive:

Step 1: Download the Demo version of the software by double-clicking on the desktop shortcut or selecting it from the Programs menu. The main window will pop up, select "Recover Partitions/Drives" option as shown in Fig 1.

Fig 1: Main Window

Step 2: After Main Window, a new Select Drive Window will pop up. "Select the RAID drive”. The software will scan the Drive. Once you click on” NEXT” after selecting the drive.

Fig 2: Select the RAID Drive.

Step 3: After successful scanning of the selected drive, it will show you a list of recovered files and folders as shown in Fig 3.

Fig 3: Recovered Files.

Step 4: Double-click on any file to preview it as shown in Fig 4. The Demo version will only allow you to preview the recovered data. You can purchase the software after judging its functionality to save the recovered data on any of your desired storage location.

Fig 4: Preview Recovered Photos.