Comments on: RAID Hard Drive Data Recovery

By: Milton Mattison

Milton Mattison — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:38:34 +0000

I have a 250gig Seagate Freeagent External hard drive. When I plug it in to the computer, the light goes in and out. The hard drive won’t open, but I can hear the hard drive running. How can I retrieve the data on my hard drive?

Thanks,

By: Michael Stankard

Michael Stankard — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:55:43 +0000

Are these the boot drives? Is it a RAID 1 or RAID 0. We have multiple solutions if you can answer this problem for you. What type of computer is it? Do you want to boot from the RAID or another port.

By: Austin Goe

Austin Goe — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:08:47 +0000

Hello,

My PC has a RAID set-up, and frequently one of my hard drives will go offline and I’ll have to rebuild it. This process takes about 3 hours and occurs atleast once a month. I have two hard drives. There is one slot where the hard drive goes offline. I replaced both the hard drive and motherboard but the problem still remains. Is there a way where I could remove the RAID setup and just use the hard drives separately? Or is there something else I could do to reduce the amount of crashes?

Thank you for your time

By: Davedata99

Davedata99 — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:27:43 +0000

RAID data recovery can become a very complicated situation. Partial rebuilds are often a cause of data loss. When a drive goes out of the array often replaced by a new drive and a rebuild is performed. However, when another drive is forced out of the array because of failure during this process the result is an array left in a very bad state.

RAID data recovery can also become more challenging when these arrays are configured accross dual channels, making sence of the data left on disk can become a daunting task for any engineer. If possible, prior to performing any rebuild or any type of write functions to a damaged array make images of the media.