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Building RAID When Parameters are Unknown

To build RAID usingStellar Data Recovery, the user must preferably know the disk order, start sector of RAID in each disk, stripe/block size, parity repetition/delay, and parity order. If any of the RAID parameters are not known, the user can select the possible options provided in the recovery window. Multiple possible RAIDs are constructed according to the combination of parameter options provided by the user. The user can choose one of them. After the RAID is rebuilt, user can perform a scan and recovery on the RAID volumes.

To build RAID when parameters are unknown:

1. RunStellar Data Recovery.

2. FromSelect What to Recoverscreen, select the type of data i.e.Everything, Documents, Folders & EmailsorMultimedia Files, you want to recover.

3. Click下一个。

4. OnRecover Fromscreen, select突袭RecoveryfromOther Locationsand clickScan.

5. The突袭Reconstructionwindow is displayed. All the RAID drives and a missing drive are shown in ‘Select Hard Drives to Reconstruct RAID‘ section.

6. In the ‘Select Hard Drives to Reconstruct RAID‘ section, click on a RAID hard disk and then clickRepeat this till all the RAID disks are shown in the ‘Move hard drives up/down for disk order‘ section.

7. In ‘Move hard drives up/down for disk order’ section, click on a hard disk and then clickorto change its order. Repeat this till all the drives are in the correct order. Click the block under RAID start sector to type the starting sector.

8. If you don’t know the starting sectors, check ‘Don’t know start sector of drives. Show list of probable start sectors‘. In the Select one or more probable start sectors section, select all the possible start sectors. You can also use theAdd Sectorbutton to add a start sector, if it is not listed.

9. In ‘Select Stripe/block size‘drop-down, select a block size or select ‘Don’t know‘ option to choose probable block sizes from a list.

10. If you have selected the ‘Don’t know‘ option, a ‘Select one or more block sizes:’ list is displayed. Select the possible block sizes.

11. In the ‘Select Parity Order/Rotation‘ drop-down, select a rotation method, or select ‘Don’t know‘ option to choose probable rotation methods from a list.

12. In ‘Select Parity Repetition/Delay‘ drop-down, select a delay amount.

13. Click. The recovered RAID is shown.

    

14. If you have used the ‘Don’t know‘ option for one or more of the RAID parameters, a list of probable RAIDs are constructed and shown in a list. RAID information is also shown. Select one of the RAIDs according to its score and click theShow Volume Listbutton.

15. 突袭volumes are shown on the main screen, under theRaid Recoverybutton.

    

16. Click theReconstruct RAIDbutton to perform construction once again, or clickLoad Constructed RAIDbutton to select another constructed RAID from the list of probable RAIDs.

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