Recovering a RAID 0 Array

[briboy]

Hi all,

Here's the situation, if anyone has any pointers that would be great.

A friend of mine got a DELL computer with a RAID 0 (striping) array with two 250GB Maxtor drives. It is a Hardware RAID using SATA drives. I believe the Dell is using the Intel chipset for the hardware RAID.

You may have guessed, since I'm posting this, he's having problems and asked me if I could help out. I have a machine I built with an Abit AI7 Motherboard that also has Intel's chipset and supports SATA RAID 0. I connected his drives to my machine.

Using Ontrack's EasyRecovery I restored his data to my working hard drive. a few small files restored properly, but what he really wants are his digital photos and office docs. These are larger and are corrupt.

The pictures tell an interesting tale. In the few cases where I can display them you see one "chunk" of the actual picture and then a "chunk" with a blurred colored bar, then another "chunk" of picture.

I suspect one of the drives (stripes) is not working properly. I believe the drive is returning data because the restore operation works "without errors", but obviously the correct data is not being returned.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks

 

[marco114]

a data recovery company can rebuild the drive. try Total Recall (

http://www.totalrecall.com)

or try RecallUSA Experts (

http://www.recallusa.com).

-MP

 

[vivaquebec]

I have sent my damaged media in the evening to Unirecovery

http://www.unirecovery.com,

further to contacting them on Boxing day and they have just called now saying that they have recovered all the data it is at a cost as i have requested an emergency service on Boxing day but they were clear about their fixed prices with no-fix,no-fee and have arranged a pick up at their own cost and shall deliver it back to me with prices clower than the rest I have researched on google.
Initially, they gave me no guarantees and told me that no percentage of recovery can be truely predicted , contrary to what many claim. I would say their frankness is an indication to their approach, their delivery of emergency service within 24 hours have proven that they are reliable, Also I have tried ONtrack on

http://www.ontrack.com

before they are as good but they are very very expensive.

 

[comtec17]

I really hate that they call RAID 0, RAID instead of disk striping. RAID protection means that there is protection as in this case there is not.

There are plenty of swareware recovery tools out there that seem to work nicely. I would advise that with the importance of these files, there should be a backup plan in place, IMHO...

 

[jsboro]

I have a simular situation with a couple od stripped dirves and wanting to recover data. These are software (win2k) RAID and all I want is the data. Can anyone point to and reccomend the recoery tools mentioned earlier?

Thanks

 

[dbData]

briboy,

The fuzzy chucks in the pictures are missing/corrupt fragments of the file(s), as you've summized. It means the recovery tool you're using is getting close, but not quite there. The fragment is either not found or overwritten. If it's not found, you might stand a better chance with R-Studio. If it's overwritten, your screwed!


Rick

http://www.data-recovery-hub.com