Hard Disk Recovery

Recently, I received a mail as follows:
I have 3 drives that were configured in a RAID 5. However, I cannot access data stored on it. Can you help me? Is it possible to recover lost data from RAID5? Who can help me?

RAID 5 Data Recovery

As a matter of fact, to recover data from RAID 5, we need to know what is RAID 5.

RAID 5 consists of block-level striping with distributed parity. Unlike in RAID 4, parity information is distributed among the drives. It requires that all drives but one be present to operate. Upon failure of a single drive, subsequent reads can be calculated from the distributed parity such that no data is lost. RAID 5 requires at least three disks.In comparison to RAID 4, RAID 5’s distributed parity evens out the stress of a dedicated parity disk among all RAID members. Additionally, read performance is increased since all RAID members participate in serving of the read requests.

—–wikipedia

To recover data from RAID 5, we not only can resort to data recovery companies, but also can turn to data recovery software. Here, considering data recovery companies cannot keep data security, we had better try using a piece of professional data recovery software equipped with high security.

MiniTool Power Data Recovery proves to be an excellent choice for users since it can help to easily and quickly recover data from RAID5. This tool provides wizard-based operation and simple interface. Therefore, even a new user can easily use it to recover lost data. What’s more, this tool can protect data safe all the time even in case of sudden power outage. So well, users can recover lost data without affecting the original data by using this tool.

Maybe, such brief introduction is not enough to make you know its advantages. Now, please see the RAID 5 data recovery demo below to know more information about this tool.

How to Carry Out RAID 5 Data Recovery

Firstly, we need to launch MiniTool Power Data Recovery to get its main window as follows. Note: here, we take Windows Server 2012 for example.

The main window shows several different data recovery modules, and each of them focuses on different data loss scenario. At this time, we can select a suitable one according to actual needs. For instance, we can click “Damaged Partition Recovery” to get the following window.

Now, we are supposed to select the RAID 5 and then click “Full Scan” button to thoroughly scan it. After scanning, found data will be displayed as a tree view in the following interface.

In this interface, we can select all desired data and then click “Save” button to store them on a safe place. Note: here, we can click “Preview” button to preview files before saving. (As follows)

After all operations are done, we have finished recovering lost data without affecting the original data.

After seeing the simple introduction of RAID5 data recovery, I guess you have a basic understanding of this MiniTool Power Data Recovery. For more information about this tool as well as data recovery, you can see RAID5 recovery.