How to Recover the RAID Data from RAID 0, 5, and 6 Drives?

RAID, or Redundant Array of Independent Disks, is a logical arrangement of multiple physical drives that appear as a single disk drive volume to the operating system. It facilitates data redundancy, faster input/output speeds, or both. However, when this logical arrangement breaks or gets damaged due to an error, such as a virus attack, power failure, etc., the RAID can get damaged, leading to data loss.

Briefly, RAID is a virtual data storage technology that helps improve performance and facilitate fault tolerance. However, RAID arrays are susceptible to data loss due to logical or human error or hardware failure.

What Causes Data Loss in RAID?

There can be various reasons why your data can be lost in RAID 0, RAID 5, and RAID 6:

• Virus or malware attack
• Unexpected power outage and surge
• Malfunctioning of the RAID controlled
• One or multiple drive failures
• Faulty System Configuration
• RAID Server Crash
• Bad Sectors on disks
• Damaged or corrupt file system
• Loss of RAID system registry

How to Recover Data from RAID 0, RAID 5 & RAID 6 Array

When a RAID 0, RAID 5, or RAID 6 array fails, the data becomes inaccessible, and recovery is only possible by repairing the array. Repairing RAID errors is a complex process that usually requires technical expertise.

For recovering your data from RAID 0, RAID 5, or RAID 6, you must use RAID data recovery software like Stellar Data Recovery Technician. This easy-to-use software can retrieve lost or deleted documents, PDFs, videos, photos, audio files, emails & more from RAID drives. This RAID recovery software uses an advanced algorithm to detect critical RAID parameters and then reconstruct virtual RAID to retrieve data from corrupt, broken, damaged or failed RAID 0, RAID 5, & RAID 6 arrays.

Moreover, remember that when your RAID fails for any reason, you need to stop using the RAID array. Because the longer you use the failed RAID, the harder it gets to recover your data. So, after that, disconnect hard drives from the RAID array and then connect them to your Windows PC to start the process of recovering your lost data from the RAID 0, RAID 5 & RAID 6:

• Download, install, and then launch Stellar Data Recovery Technician software.
• In the Select What to Recover screen, choose All Data and click Next.

• Then choose RAID Recovery and click Scan.

• In the RAID Reconstruction window, you need to select the RAID you use from the options RAID 0, RAID 5, and RAID 6.
• Now you have to move the RAID disks from Select Hard Drives to Reconstruct RAID box to Move hard drives up/down for the disk order box.

• After that, arrange the sequence of hard disks as they are in the physical array.
• Then in the corresponding boxes of starting sector of each disk, parity order/rotation, stripe/block size, and parity repetition/ delay, select a value.
• Select the desired RAID volume for which you want to recover data and click Scan.

• Select your desired file to see its preview, and click Recover to restore it.

• Click Browse and select a destination to a different external drive with enough space to save the recovered data.

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Conclusion

RAID is a logical arrangement of one or more drives, thus, is prone to failure due to various factors, such as power shutdown, drive failure, data corruption, hardware failure, human errors, etc. Therefore, recovering data from RAID 0, RAID 5, and RAID 6 may be quite challenging. However, shut down the RAID array in a timely manner and then use the data recovery professional software, such as Stellar Data Recovery Technician to help quickly and easily recover lost data from a broken, damaged, or corrupt RAID array.