Long story short, one of my RAID 0 drives somehow got corrupted. Does anybody know anything about data recovery services? I'm trying software right now and it doesn't seem to be working. I heard that if you have warez you'll "get in a lot of trouble". I do have my fair share. A few adobe photoshop/ after effects/premiere installers among other things. I have some movies too. I'm seriously thinking about going to mexico to get my data recovered. Does anybody have any advice?

Posted by Factor VIII Long story short, one of my RAID 0 drives somehow got corrupted. Does anybody know anything about data recovery services? I'm trying software right now and it doesn't seem to be working. I heard that if you have warez you'll "get in a lot of trouble". I do have my fair share. A few adobe photoshop/ after effects/premiere installers among other things. I have some movies too. I'm seriously thinking about going to mexico to get my data recovered. Does anybody have any advice?

RAID 0? you're pretty much fucked, you could try using one of Ontrack's data tools, but make sure you are doing it from another drive.

http://torrentspy....OnTrack_6_3_Retail

Posted by Factor VIII I heard that if you have warez you'll "get in a lot of trouble".

1) Unfortunately, no normal data recovery software can help you if a disk in your RAID failed - hope that it's just a bit of recoverable corruption, but expect otherwise.

2) Most places have a "we aren't the software police" attitude - just check the privacy policy of the place you're going to. If you're paranoid, consider the data lost.

Posted by Factor VIII Long story short, one of my RAID 0 drives somehow got corrupted. Does anybody know anything about data recovery services? I'm trying software right now and it doesn't seem to be working. I heard that if you have warez you'll "get in a lot of trouble". I do have my fair share. A few adobe photoshop/ after effects/premiere installers among other things. I have some movies too. I'm seriously thinking about going to mexico to get my data recovered. Does anybody have any advice?

Advice - If the data is important DONT DO RAID 0! Raid 1 is fine, RAID 5 is teh bomb.

Thanks for the replies. A little update
I managed to run a diagnostic test built into the the RAID drives (non of the drives are physically damaged after all) I scanned the suspected drive and it turns out some of the blocks are unreadable or corrupted but only the ones near the very beginning, the low 10,000's. According to windows, the current file system is "RAW" with a capacity of 0 bites.

I'm running that easy revocery program with the RAW setting. Its already found 1k files. If that doesn't work
I think I'm going to quick format the array and then run a file recovery program.
Sinister Crayon, thanks for the software link. You might of saved my life.

And yes, I'm never doing RAID 0 again.

I ran that file recovery program, and while it was able to recover some word doc's the pictures it recovers look like this, or don't display at all.

click to view

The mp3's are scrambled. I can still hear parts of the song but it skips around like a scratched CD.

I guess that means that it can't recover large files. This must be the fault of the RAID array, but I have no idea why.

It also turns out that there are file system/block errors ( not sure which) on both drives. I think they are at the same location, but I'm not positive.

Posted by Factor VIII I ran that file recovery program, and while it was able to recover some word doc's the pictures it recovers look like this, or don't display at all. click to view The mp3's are scrambled. I can still hear parts of the song but it skips around like a scratched CD. I guess that means that it can't recover large files. This must be the fault of the RAID array, but I have no idea why. It also turns out that there are file system/block errors ( not sure which) on both drives. I think they are at the same location, but I'm not positive.

I'd could be the RAID array, the hard-drives, or simply that the files were partially overwritten by windows or something. not everything is recoverable 100%

Does the RAID manager have a "resolve conflicts" button? Striped arrays can be most unforgiving; never use for unbacked up data! Try running Windows Disk Check utility; windows sees the array as one logic drive and will treat it as such. May work.

A pro can prolly recover it, but I wouldn't even want to guess how much that would be.