RAID Data Recovery

Data Raid & Server Data Recovery Services by UK Experts

Data Clinic has a proven track record in RAID data recovery and server data recovery across the UK. Our dedicated team of RAID data recovery experts offers immediate, specialist assistance to help you recover data from failed or damaged RAID arrays and servers efficiently and securely.

Since 2002, we’ve successfully recovered critical data from thousands of RAID disk arrays, servers, and storage systems across the UK and worldwide. We offer flexible RAID data recovery services tailored to your urgency:

• Emergency RAID Recovery – Data is recovered as quickly as possible, including overnight and weekend work. Our 24/7 RAID recovery service is ideal for critical failures.
• Priority Service – Your RAID drive data recovery is completed within 2–3 working days.
• Standard Service – Full recovery in 5–10 working days for less time-sensitive cases.

We recover lost data from all types of RAID arrays and configurations, including:

• Any RAID Level – RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and more
• Any Hardware System – Dell PowerEdge, HP ProLiant, IBM, G-RAID, Synology, NetGear, QNAP, and others
• Any OS & File System –Windows, macOS, Linux, NAS, and proprietary systems
• Any Data Type –Virtual machines, SANs, Exchange & SQL Servers, Office documents, multimedia files, video/audio production content, and more

If your data is stored on a RAID setup, we’ll recover it — no matter the system, setup, or damage. Trust our RAID drive recovery experts to get your critical files back safely.

Our RAID & Server Data Recovery Process

Common RAID / Server Faults We Recover Data From…

• RAID array / Controller Card Failure
• Missing / Deleted Files and Data
• Controller Card Set-up Corruption
• RAID Container Crash
• Boot Failure
• Server registry configuration lost
• Rebuild failure
• Damaged striping
• Multiple hard disk drive failure (or multiple drives go offline)
• Intermittent drive failure resulting in configuration corruption
• RAID array or volumes that won’t mount after a server crash
• Configuration damage or corruption
• Addition of incompatible drives
• Hardware conflicts
• Software corruption
• Software or operating system upgrades

The RAID Data Recovery Process

• An initial diagnosis by our RAID data recovery team determines whether each media device is accessible to our lab equipment. If so, the first priority is to create a raw image of all data from accessible media onto new media so that logical analysis can determine the nature of the information loss situation
• If some of the media is inaccessible our lab will test the components and closely examine its internal health to determine the extent of physical damage.
• Recovery of crashed RAID and other hard disks often involves replacing failed or damaged components in a clean environment and using specialized hardware and software tools to create the raw image. Failed components typically include electronics, read/write heads, head assemblies, magnets & drive motors.
• Logical RAID data recovery uses the raw images of all the server’s media by examining the low-level data sectors. Technicians must determine both the exact layout of volumes which span or are striped across multiple drives and what fixes to filesystem structures are needed to get access to the important data.
• Multiple-drive servers are typically ‘destriped’ onto our media so that filesystem repairs can be performed and the data files extracted. Sometimes the existing filesystem structures are missing or damaged so much that data has to be extracted directly from one or more fragments of the destriped image.
• Our programmers have created a full set of software tools used by our technicians to analyze, destripe, fix & recover data from raw images drives to virtually all operating systems. Once a recovery has been successfully performed, file lists are created and information validity is checked.