Stellar Data Recovery
- About Stellar Data Recovery
- Basics of Data Recovery and Common Scenarios
- About the Guide
Getting Started- Working with the Software
- Recovering Data from Existing Volume
- Recovering Data from CD/DVD
- Recovering a Lost Partition
- Recovering Data from Crashed Computer
- Working with Disk Images
- Working with RAID
- Recovering Data from Virtual Machine
- Previewing Scan Results
- Saving the Recovered Files
- Performing a Deep Scan
- Saving the Scan Information
- Configuring Advanced Settings
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- About Stellar
Stellar Data Recovery / Working with the Software / Working with RAID / Building RAID When Parameters are Known
Building RAID When Parameters are Known
To build RAID using Stellar Data Recovery, you must preferably know the disk order, start sector of RAID in each disk, stripe/block size, parity repetition/delay, and parity order. Multiple possible RAIDs are constructed according to the combination of parameter options that you provide. User has to choose from any one of them. After the RAID is rebuilt, you can perform scanning and recovery operations on the RAID volumes.
To build RAID when parameters are known:
- Run Stellar Data Recovery.
- From Select What to Recover screen, select the type of data i.e. Everything, Documents, Folders & Emails or Multimedia Files, you want to recover.
- Click Next.
- On Recover From screen, select RAID Recovery from Other Locations and click Scan.
- The RAID Reconstruction window is displayed. All the RAID drives and a missing drive are shown in ‘Select Hard Drives to Reconstruct RAID‘ section.
RAID Reconstruction main screen
- In the ‘Select Hard Drives to Reconstruct RAID‘ section, click on a RAID hard disk and then click
Repeat this till all the RAID disks are shown in the Move hard drives up/down for disk order section.
- In the ‘Move hard drives up/down for disk order‘ section, click on a hard disk and then click
or 
to change its order. Repeat this till all the drives are in the correct order. Double Click the block under RAID Start Sector to type the starting sector. - In the ‘Select Stripe/Block Size‘ drop-down, select a block size.
- In the ‘Select Parity Order/Rotation‘ drop-down, select a rotation method.
- In the ‘Select Parity Repetition/Delay‘ drop-down, select a delay amount.
- Click
. A single RAID is shown. Select it and click the Show Volume List button to continue recovery. The found volume and the RAID are shown under the RAID Recovery button on the main screen.
Select Constructed RAID screen
- If Stellar Data Recovery is not able to build a RAID and no volume is found, a Create Virtual Drive option is shown. You can perform raw recovery or search for lost volumes in it. Click it to create virtual drive. Virtual drive is shown in ‘Select Hard Drive to Search Lost volume‘ in RAID, under the RAID Recovery button on the main screen.
Reconstruct RAID/Load Constructed RAID screen
- Click the Reconstruct RAID button to perform construction from once again, or click Load Constructed RAID button to select another constructed RAID from the list of probable RAIDs.
Related link:
Knowledge Base Article "How to Recover Data from Lost or Deleted RAID 0, 5 and 6 Volumes?"