RAID 5 recovery using do it yourself software
Until recently, programs designed to recover raid 5 array information were limited in their ability to reconstruct the complicated data access as it exists in raid systems. Of course for those dealing in these extremely complicated hard disk combinations, being able to simply copy out data frozen in an array that had controller or emulator issues was a huge degree of success in itself.
In fact designing and creating data recovery programs that can do this was left to the exclusive province of only the best data recovery software companies. Those same high tech experts are now offering programs for RAID 5 recovery. This latest generation of raid repair tool will not only copy out the entire contents of a raid array as files or any image but will actually load those files into a virtual RAID array much like those used in the creation of virtual disk drives. The primary difference being of course that the simulated RAID array coordinates many disks and their access.