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Old 03-23-2009, 01:42 PM
GDH GDH is offline
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Hi,

The current version of Recover My Files, 3.98 (xxx) does not specifically support raid recovery.

We will be releasing Recover My Files Version 4 this year, which has raid support in it. However, it sounds like that have been a large number of changes to the disks, so I don't even think that a raid recovery program would be able to rebuild the raid at this point.

In a RAID 5 setup, large files can be stripped over multiple drives. E.g. the file header and the first part of the file could be on physical disk 1, and the second half of the file, including the footer, can reside on physical disk 2.

Recover My Files runs a search for header and footer. This is why you are getting so many corrupt files, because it locates the header on disk 1, but cannot locate the footer on the the same disk, so it just gives the recovered file a default size.

You will most likely only be able to find an preview the smaller files which are not stripped during the raid storage process.
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