How to Recover files/Data from deleted/reconfigured Raid 0 Partition

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alvinivlalvin

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Hi Experts,

I had a 2 500GB HD in my server and configured as Raid 0, then after a year i added additional 2 1TB HD so i deleted my old raid configuration without saving/backup of my data, and i configured them as Raid 0, and i installed new OS. Is there any way to recover my files from previous raid 0 configuration witch is 500GB raid 0?

Thanks & Regards,
Alvin
 
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alvinivlalvin

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Hi Rejaz123

After using those software recovery, I successfully recovered my data/files but when I'm trying to open .xls files the content of the files are "special characters" and not the original file content it seems like the file was corrupted. Any suggestions to solve this problem?

Thanks & Regards,
Alvin

 
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So sorry to hear that some files came up in special characters. This means it has become unrecoverable but at least you were able to recover some files from that program.

There is a small possibility that those .xls files got encoded into another format. Open them into Microsoft Excel, and you need to play around with the character options/fonts and hopefully you could recover that data
 
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It seems odd that only .xls files are corrupted. If other files also appear corrupted it may be that you used the wrong stripe size when you assembled the RAID0. You have to match exactly the original RAID0 configuration to recover the data.
 
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Raid 0 cannot be rebuilt. But if it were raid 1 for example, you could do it and that is the problem with raid 0
Once data is lost, it is unrecoverable and only data recovery programs could bring back limited amounts of data

You could try to reconfigure raid 0 using those exact same drives used before, it might help recover data but it is not guaranteed to get data back
 
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Not necessarily. First try your RAID recovery software to match the original RAID0 config.

RAID0 has no redundancy but can often be rebuilt if all RAID member drives are in good working order. You just need the correct drive order and stripe size.
 
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