DTI Data Recovery is happy to announce a new full version FREEWARE data recovery software for RAID 1 users. If you are using a RAID 1 which is a mirrored set of hard drives, and the RAID no longer boots, than we can help. More home users are getting their computers with RAID hard drives installed, even though a mirror is the best RAID for a home computer, hard drives do fail.
When on of the two hard drives within a RAID 1 fails, sometimes the system is unable to read the partition. This is especially true if the disk 0 hard drive containing a RAID 1 fails. Most of the time the system will still boot, but if it doesn’t then you can no longer access your data! For this reason DTI Data Recovery has created a FREEWARE RAID data recovery software that will allow users to take either of the broken RAID 1 hard drives and mount it as a single drive. Once the RAID 1 hard drive has been converted to a single drive, your system will be able to read and copy your data off of the damaged RAID 1.
Visit our Freeware data recovery software page to download the RAID 1 data recovery software. This is a full version freeware, not a demo or a trial. Call 727-345-9665 if you have any questions.
I had a WD MyBook failure. It contained two 500GB drives and I set them up in RAID1 (mirrored). I removed the drives from the WB box and purchased an new USB external box. I installed the “B” drive in the box and I downloaded your program. I am attempting to recover the data from the “B” drive at this time.
These drives were not used for boot-drives but simply for external storage. I get four entries as detailed below:
SS SC EH ES EC Rel Sectors Total Sectors
1 3 254 63 368 48195 5879790
1 369 254 63 381 5927985 208845
1 382 254 63 504 6136830 1975995
1 505 254 63 1023 8112825 968655240
I have run the MBR Scan and the status reports: 2937 of 478807 and it has been stuck there for a while.
I can be reached at my toll-free number – 1-800-226-8584 x 3166. We are a non-profit newspaper and I have stored vital data on that drive for the past year.
Thank you.
Good Evening: I have a E-9220T with an “intel” motherboard and intel RAID + matrix manager configured as follows:
SATA 0 – 80 GB HDD – non raid – operating system
SATA 1 – NOT USED
SATA 2 – 400 GB RAID
SATA 3 – 400 GB RAID
I have not used the machine for many months and turned it on and observed that all three disks are now “non raid”
I am able to start the machine and boot up into the windows server however the two raid disks are not recognized in windows.
I am able to enter into raid utility (Cntl I) – and the three physical drives are recognized and listed as “non raid drives”
How do I re-create or re-initialize the raid array?
I have a WD MyBook World Edition II failure, it will not start. It contains two 500GB drives and I had set up in RAID1 (mirrored). I removed the drives from the WB box and purchased an new USB external box. I installed each of the drives (one at a time) in the new box and, although I could see the hard drive and the partitions through device manager, my computer would not assign it a drive letter so I couldn’t access any of the information from the drives. Is there any way I can retrieve the information from these drives?
Since I am still under warranty (barely), WD is sending me a replacement unit. Will these two drives work in the replacement unit?
Any suggestions?
Thank you.
Kenny,
This is a RAID device and the firmware within that device is specific to that raid. I am sure that Richard could help you but you would need to call in for him to get some answers to questions.
727-345-9665 ext 203
I have a NAS device from Netgear and one of the droves failed and corrupted the other. I was wondering if your software would be able to help in this case. Drives were setup as mirrored drives (RAID 1) also they call it RAID X.
Yes, the NAS may be recoverable using software. However, the file system is most likely some variation of Linux.