This article would be interesting for those people who demand any facts about RAID recovery. The usage of embedded Raid controller can require the Raid array restoration. Let us get at the example. After you have equipped a Raid array on an embedded chip set controller from AMD SB 600. You were glad when it acted, but there came a moment to go after up-to-date technologies. So, you made your choice on the Intel Core processors. You've settled what motherboard to choose and you see there an embedded ICH9R controller, you have replaced your HDD, but Raid array still can't be determined. There're two ways out obtainable for users:

1. You can buy new hard drives and make absolutely new Raid array and transport all info from the old computer to a new one that needs a lot of expenses and long period of time to recover a preceding Raid array.

2. Or you may apply to a “File recovery lab” where your Raid array will be restored for some certain sum of funds and during little term by facilities of data transportation. But the difficulty will not just subsist in situation when people use outer Raid array, because in this case persons need only to transfer a controller with hard disks. Another difficulty is semi-hard controllers that overfilled the market these days. The only Raid arrays that can be recovered by these controllers are 1, 0+1, 5 and they cannot use another means of restore.

The method of “mirroring” may assure protection. There's a conviction that the usage of stripe (Raid 0) deprives persons of file recovery and persons who don't utilize it are strictly secured from the Raid arrays recovery. But in case of electricity difficulties, driver problems in OS, virus assault one can lose two hard disks at once and it will not be protected by any mirroring. So, what people can do in this situation? In this situation you should not try to restore the data from a Raid array or to restore the whole Raid array. The best thing you can do here is to switch off your personal computer and bring it to a data recovery specialist or to receive a professional software. You can save your data only using these pieces of advice and without inventing self-made restoration actions. (more…)