File recover help needed

hooklahoma

hooklahoma

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Decided to set up a dual harddrive raid on my home 'puter and lost everything on my original HD.
I have been backing up but realized to my horror that I've been backing up the wrong directory w/ all my family pics on it. This is extremely sickening considering the fact the whole reason I was doing the RAID was for backup purposes

Is there any good software out there for file retreval? I'd be willing to sacrifice ease of use for power. I'm willing to spend, but id perfer to do it myself

Thanks in advance
 
I used norton systemworks to retrieve some files that were lost when I accidently partitioned the wrong hard disk a few years ago....but I hadn't formatted yet.

If you have already formatted the new partition it may be more difficult.

If you have systemworks call symantec tech support and see if they can help.
 
RAID 0 boosts performance by writing data to both drives at the same time. It does nothing for fault tolerance. If you want to guard against drive failure in the future, use RAID 1. For additional backup purposes, you may want to consider an external drive. The firewire models are fast enough, and the capacities are up to 400GB+ at a cost of $300-$400. If it were me, I'd keep the RAID 0 and just add the external.

As for recovering what you lost, thre are a number of utilities out there, but I'm not clear on what happened for you to lose your data. Did you go from a single drive setup to a RAID, and the creation of the RAID wiped your drive? If not, please expand on what happened to cause your data to disappear.
 
If you had the drives set up as RAID-0 (striped), then you may be completely hosed. Depending on how bad the drive failure was, you might be able to take it to a data recovery specialist. Be prepared to spend A LOT OF MONEY to have this done. I can't think of a way that you or I would be able to recover data from a striped RAID that has had one drive go bad. Certainly no commercial off the shelf software is capable of this.

For ths reason, I don't recommend normal people ever use striped RAIDs. Only if you need the massive disk throughput should you use a striped setup, and then only if you have the whole thing in a backup RAID of some sort as well. Things like video editing and multi-terabyte databases come to mind as valid applications.
 
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