There is great info for people who are concerned in Disk Recovery. If you use embedded Raid controller, it may require the Raid array recovery facilities. Let's get at the example. Imagine that you have installed AMD SB 600 built-in chip set controller with a Raid array on it. You were happy when it worked, but there became a moment to go after modern technologies. And you decided to select Intel Core processor. You've selected a motherboard, but there's a built-in controller ICH9R, replaced winchesters and Raid array can't be defined. There are 2 ways out:

1. You can purchase new hard drives and make totally new Raid array and transport all information from the old machine to a new one that needs lots of expenses and much time to restore a previous Raid array.

2. Or you can appeal to a “Data recovery lab” where your Raid array will be restored for some certain sum of money and during short term by facilities of file transportation. But the difficulty will not just subsist in case when people utilize external Raid array, because in this case persons should only transport a controller with hard drives. One more difficulty is that nowadays there're lots of embedded semi-hard Raid controllers in the market. And this kind of controllers may restore only the arrays 1, 0+1, 5 and they do not utilize the other methods of file recovery.

“Mirroring” as 1 of the methods that will guarantee safety to you. Some persons claim that if you would not utilize stripe (Raid 0), you are surely secured from Raid arrays and data restoration. But in case of electricity problems, driver problems in operating system, virus attacks one can lose two hard drives at once and it won't be saved by any mirroring. But what is the settlement of this kind of difficulty then? The only point you have to do in this case is to try to recover all the files from Raid array or recover your Raid array in whole. The greatest point that may be done is of course taking your personal computer to a file recovery specialist or buying specialized Raid recovery software. You can protect your info only utilizing these tips and without fabricating self-made recovery deeds. Read the rest of this entry »