How To Recover Deleted Files From Raid Partition

Table of Contents:

1. What are the Reasons for Data Loss in RAID Partition?
2. How to Recover Data from RAID Partition
• Method 1. Using Disk Management
• Method 2. Repair Corrupt RAID Partition using CHKDSK
• Method 3. Deleted RAID partition recovery utility
3. Tips to avoid data loss

RAID is a full form of a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks; this technique offers simultaneous usage of multiple drives for the improvement of PC performance as well as to increase system storage space. When there is a hard drive crash or corruption of HD partition, OS crash, unforeseen computer shutdown, and other disaster situations occur in the system, RAID array provides protection to your data. As a RAID array creates a mirror image of data stored in multiple drives, it can recreate lost data successfully.

What are the Reasons for Data Loss in Raid Partition?

Below are the Reasons for data loss in RAID partition:

• Human errors such as accidental deletion
• Malware or virus attack on the hard drive
• Power surges, causing sudden power failure, which can damage the partitions on a hard drive
• Invalid configuration settings
• Shutting the system down abruptly
• Server crash
• Bad sectors on the hard disk drive
• Incorrect replacement of a failed or damaged drive in the array

How to Recover Data from RAID Partition

Method 1. Using the Disk Management

The Disk Management tool can help you to access the partition and assign a drive letter to it - so it can be accessible in the RAID array.

• Open Disk Management
• In the Disk Management window, look out for the RAID partition without a drive letter, right-click on it and select “Change Drive Letter
• On the next screen, assign a drive letter to the partition and click OK.
• Go back to File Explorer and check if you can access the disk’s partitions and volumes. If you can create a backup immediately, but if you can’t, the following solution is to format the disk, but don’t do that immediately, check the next method.

Method 2. Repair Corrupt RAID Partition using CHKDSK

• Right-click on the Start/Windows icon at the bottom-left of your desktop/monitor screen and select Command Prompt (Admin).
• When the CMD utility launches, enter the following command and hit the Enter button on your keyboard: chkdsk /f X:
• Wait for the scanning and repair to run completely; close the CMD utility and reboot the PC

Method 3. Deleted RAID Partition Recovery Utility

Yodot Hard Drive Recovery tool is the best program that can be implied to recover deleted RAID partitions on Windows OS-based computers. With a friendly user interface and on-screen guide, even a novice user can regain files and folders that were lost as a result of the intentional or accidental deletion of a RAID partition. This program support recovery of data from SCSI, SATA, SAS, and IDE hard drive interface-based RAID drives. You can also get back data from RAID 10, RAID 5, RAID 1, and RAID 0 partitions deleted or lost in a number of situations.

Steps to Get Back Deleted Raid Partition:

• Download the Yodot Hard Drive Recovery application on a Windows system having a RAID drive
• Then click on the Partition Recovery option from the available options on the main screen



• This proceed to the next screen where you can select deleted RAID partition among a set of drives present in that Windows PC
• Once deleted RAID partition is selected, this tool starts scanning process
• Soon after scanning procedure gets finished, you will find recordable data from deleted RAID partition
• Finally browse a new destination location and Save retrieved data on Windows system hard drive

Tips to Avoid Data Loss From Raid Partition:

• Maintain backup of essential RAID partition data on secure storage devices
• Confirm twice before deleting RAID partition in PC
• Avoid modifying configuration settings in RAID array if you don’t have complete knowledge to prevent unintentional removal of RAID partitions