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Reparing
and recovering a RAID
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when one or more RAID hard drives is making a clicking noise, goes
offline, fails, or their status shows the RAID as in degraded
mode, requires specialized training and equipment. If you
have already tried to rebuild your RAID but still can't access
your data, you should stop now. Forcing a rebuild will only
increase the odds that your data loss is permanant.
Formatting a boot drive or partition
can also damage or remove striping, which reduces the recoverability
of data and causes permanent loss. Even if you are using RAID utilities
or recovery software, unless you are experienced with the nauances
of a performing a RAID server data recovery and have sucessfully
restored data or rebuilt arrays, these RAID repair software packages
can potentially cause more damage.
The safest thing
you could do at this point is contact a RAID recovery specialist
to evaluate the damage and begin the process to recover data
from the hard drive. To reduce the chances that your data is
completely lost, you will need professional RAID recovery services.
A RAID data recovery specialist should have thorough knowledge
of drive structures, MFT mount points, HEX, and offsets to avoid
destroying data while attempting a recovery.
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