There is a great amount of information for those persons who are concerned in Disk Recovery. The utilization of embedded Raid controller often needs Raid array restoration facilities. So, look at one instance. Fancy that you've installed AMD SB 600 built-in chip set controller with a Raid array on it. You were glad when it acted, but there became a time to follow modern technologies. So, you stopped your choice on the Intel Core central processing unit. You've chosen a motherboard, but there's an embedded controller ICH9R, replaced hard disk drives and Raid array can't be defined. There are two ways out accessible for you:

1. There's a method of receiving new hard drives and making a new Raid array on them. In this case you would have to transfer the old info to new hard disks and spend a lot of time to recover preceding Raid array.

2. Or you can apply to a “Data restoration laboratory” where your Raid array will be recovered for some definite amount of money and during short term by means of data transportation. And in the situation when a person use external Raid array the difficulty will disappear by itself. It happens so because it is needed only to transfer a controller with hard disks. The other difficulty is semi-hard controllers that crammed the market these days. And such controllers can restore just the arrays 1, 0+1, 5 and they don't use the other methods of file recovery.

The method of “mirroring” can guarantee safety. Some people say that if you would not use stripe (Raid 0), you are certainly protected from Raid arrays and file restoration. But in case of electricity difficulties, driver difficulties in operating system, virus assault one can lose two hard drives at once and it won't be protected by any mirroring. But what is the settlement of this type of difficulty then? In this case you must not try to recover the files from a Raid array or to recover the entire Raid array. The cleverest point you may do here is to switch off your computer and take it to a file restoration specialist or to get a professional software. You may protect your info only using these tips and without fabricating self-made recovery actions. Read the rest of this entry »