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Reconstructing a broken software RAID5
 

Licensing requirement

You need File Scavenger® with the Professional-Use license.

RAID settings

You need to know the following settings:

Reconstruction procedure

  • Start File Scavenger. Select Quick Search. Click Advanced.
  • Select Striped Volume, With parity. Choose the number of disks.
  • Select Software-based. Select "Forward (Windows NT 4 style)" or "Backward, symmetric (Windows 2000, 2003, Vista)" parity rotation scheme. Click OK.
  • Select the disks in the correct order. For each disk, specify the First Sector value and click Add. Click OK after all disks have been selected.
  • Choose the 64 KB Block Size and click OK. Note that Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers based on Windows may be modified by vendors to use a different block size.
Use the Long Search if the Quick Search does not succeed.