Reviewer, 2009-06-03 06:03:00

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is a mode of storing same data within various places over multiple hard disks. It is employed with user-system where users have stored medical, scientific, and other such important records, in order to improve its performance. As RAID helps storing huge data records, it can even cause serious loss of important content if gets corrupted due to any sudden system failure, crash, or other such mishap. However, you can easily handle such loss by taking up the assistance of a data recovery tool. Well, if you’re yet to find an adept recovery tool compatible with RAID system, then you must try out Getway Raid Recovery 2.0. It’s a great data recovery tool for RAID that facilitates data extraction from various hard disks within RAID system, followed by rebuilding the correct data. It’s compatible to recover data from different types of arrays that includes RAID 0, RAID5, RAID 6, RAID 5E, and RAID 5EE.

The Getway Raid Recovery supports data recovery in different situations such as File Deletion; MBR loss/damage/excursion; Accidental Array Format; One/two RAID hard-disk damage, DBR damage; etc. For the data recovery process the program supports you with ‘Manual Mode, ‘Smart Mode’, and ‘User-defined Mode’. These options are presented with the first screen, and selecting one like ‘Smart Mode’ you can move onto the next step. With this step, the program requires you to load Raid image, hard disk, or add missing disk for recovery. It even allows you to view the sectors of selected disk, and set Raid parameter according to which the stripes would be processed. The next shows the Raid types that you can further ‘Analyze’ to get Raid information. It further consists of Scan Device for hard disk partitions information; File View facilitates checking partition content; Sector View provides you with HEX view Tool displaying the sectors of hard drive; and Export Image features allows creating Virtual or Physical Disk Image of selected files.

Getway Raid Recovery 2.0 offers easy procedure for RAID data recovery to restore content effectively in order to overcome the loss. The wizard-style interface, easy-going steps, simple features, and proficient performance, make the application worthy of getting 4 rating points.