I used UFS Explorer. They gave a tutorial to recover the very product. The hard drives are intact. In fact, I am using only 3 hard drives to recover the data. Thanks for the links. Eric On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > I think he used a tool that is advocated by Buffalo, that was > referenced in a former link and solved it. > > On 11/20/09, Technomage wrote: > > um. recovering data on a raid 5?? > > > > is the array still intact or is it broken. if the latter, its will be > > orders of magnitude more difficult > > (but still doable). > > > > here's a clip from www.diydatarecovery.nl: > > ************************************************** > > *Data recovery from a broken array* > > > > Due to the parity information a RAID 5 array can survive one single disk > > failing, RAID 5 is 'fault tolerant'. The falling disk can be replaced > > (hot swapped) and the data on the disk is rebuild using the parity > > information. However due to circumstances this may fail. It can also > > happen that the RAID adapter itself fails and very often it is not > > possible to migrate an existing array to another RAID adapter. As a > > result you have a bunch of disks, all containing bits of your data but > > you can not access that data. This is where you will need true RAID > > capable data recovery software. > > > > You will need software that can treat the separate disks as one single > > array. The software should enable the user to add disks that were part > > of the array and to configure RAID parameters such as stripe size. > > However many will not be knowledgeable enough to provide the parameter > > sets thus ideally the software should be able to detect RAID parameters > > such as stripe size and rotation (for example, in above illustration you > > see forward rotation, inverted rotation is also possible). > > > > As soon as the software has virtually recreated the array data recovery > > proceeds normally; the disk is being scanned for file system structures > > and a virtual file system is created from which data can be recovered. > > DIY DataRecovery iRecover > > follows this procedure. Alternatively the reconstructed array is copied > > entirely to another disk or raw image file. The destination disk can > > then be analysed with any data recovery software, an image can be > > analyzed with any software that is capable of processing a raw image > > file. The latter is the method used by RAID Reconstructor from Runtime > > Software (www.runtime.org ) > > *************************************************** > > > > hope this helps. > > > > > > Eric Cope wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> My friend was running off of a Buffalo NAS, which died. Does anyone know > >> how > >> to recover his files from a RAID 5 configuration? > >> Thanks, > >> Eric > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > Skype: (623)239-3392 > AT&T: (503)754-4452 > www.it-clowns.com > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Eric Cope http://cope-et-al.com