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RAID Recovery Tool Restores Data from Corrupted RAID Arrays
Magic RAID Recovery by East Imperial Soft is designed to help users repair many types of corrupted RAID arrays and recover information from single-disk and multiple-disk volumes created in popular DAS and NAS devices as well as a wide range of RAID controllers manufactured by HP, Dell, Adaptec, IBM, Intel, Fujitsu, Silicon Image, LSI, ASMedia, Broadcom, and many others.
Features and Benefits of Magic RAID Data Recovery Software
Rebuild Corrupted RAID Arrays
- Rebuild and repair corrupted RAID arrays created in Windows, Linux, macOS, and NAS devices;
- Mount multiple-disk volumes if the original storage device or RAID controller is broken or unavailable;
- Supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 4, RAID 5, and RAID 6;
- Supports RAID 1E, RAID 5E, RAID 5EE, X-Raid, Raidz and many types of composite arrays including RAID 01, RAID 10, RAID 50, and RAID 60.
Recovering Data from NAS and DAS Devices
- Mount multi-disk volumes and RAID arrays regardless of the type of RAID controller;
- Automatic detection of disk order and array configuration parameters;
- Recover data from logical volumes spanned across multiple disks;
- Recover data from corrupted single-disk volumes and JBOD arrays;
- Extract files and folders from degraded and corrupted arrays without a lengthy rebuild/resilvering (for mirrored or checksum-based arrays).
How to Use RAID Array Recovery Software
- SelectOpen the RAID repair software and select the RAID you would like to analyze.
- BuildIn addition to the auto-generated RAID, you can build it manually.
- AnalyzeChoose “Fast scan” or “Full analysis” and let the program run the analysis.
- RecoverSelect the required files or recover the entire contents of damaged RAID.
Recover Data from NAS Devices
Synology, QNAP, ASUSTOR, Western Digital, Thecus, TerraMaster, Buffalo, and many other Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices are readily available. However, the limited system resources and restrictive user interfaces of many pre-build NAS solutions may render the data inaccessible should one of the hard drives in multiple-disk volumes fail, even for redundant arrays.
Magic RAID Recovery makes it possible to save your files and folders by connecting the remaining disks directly to your computer and extracting the data without lengthy and unreliable rebuilding/resilvering.
Extract Data from Failing and Corrupted Disks
A NAS device is not always about RAID, or disk volumes spanned across multiple hard drives. Sometimes it’s just a single disk or a JBOD array formatted in a file system not recognized by your computer.
Magic RAID Recovery can help you extract your files and folders by automatically detecting the file system type and making the data accessible on your Windows PC. All major file systems used in Windows (NTFS, ReFS, FAT, FAT32, exFAT), macOS (APFS, HFS+), Linux (Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS, Btrfs, ReiserFS), and Unix (UFS 1, UFS 2) are supported.
Single-Disk and Multi-Disk Volumes
Magic RAID Recovery was tested on hundreds of single-disk and multiple-disk storage configurations. The RAID system recovery tool supports all types of RAID arrays, including those managed by mdadm (all common NAS units), software and hardware RAID controllers. The RAID server recovery tool recognizes RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 4, RAID 5, and RAID 6 arrays including exotic configurations (RAID 1E, RAID 5E, RAID 5EE) and composite arrays (RAID 01, RAID 10, RAID 50, RAID 60). Single-disk volumes and JBOD arrays are also supported. RAID partition recovery, mdadm RAID recovery, QNAP RAID recovery, and much more: the tool supports all kinds of files.
Partial Data Extraction
Depending on the type of the RAID array, it may tolerate one or more faulty hard drives. However, it is common for parity-based arrays to have another disk fail when recovering from a single-disk failure. You can reduce the possibility of the second failure by using the RAID failure recovery feature to quickly recover the data instead of performing the full resilvering. If the second disk had already failed, the RAID recovery utility would apply complex algorithms to attempt recovering the files that are still accessible on the remaining disks. Needless to say that Magic RAID Recovery will recover 100% of the data if the remaining disks are enough for complete recovery.
Wide Range of RAID Controllers
While many controllers advertise support for the various RAID levels, the devil is in the detail. Manufacturers of the different RAID controllers have their own preferences on confining non-essential parameters of the array. As a result, one cannot make assumptions about the stripe size or parity. Magic RAID Recovery supports a wide range of RAID controllers, including those built into Intel-based motherboards and those manufactured by HP, Dell, Adaptec, and many others, including server models.
Extract Data from Degraded Arrays
From time to time, a NAS device or RAID controller may throw the disk out for various reasons, immediately putting the array into a degraded state. In some instances, re-adding the disk only leads to the same problem repeated after many hours of resilvering. The disk may be perfectly readable outside the enclosure with longer than expected timeouts (which is often the case for SMR drives), or there might be just a few bad blocks not affecting the majority of the data. The RAID recovery tool allows remounting such arrays and extracting the data without lengthy synchronization.
Recover Data from Corrupted Volumes
A perfectly healthy RAID might be unreadable because of corrupted file system structures. Rebuilding or resilvering such arrays would be a waste of time, while inaccessible volumes can be repaired by reconstructing their file system structures. Magic RAID Recovery can check the volume and safely extract the original files and folders.
Advanced Manual Mode
Fully automated performance has its benefits as well as drawbacks. If you are an advanced user and know your RAID or work in a data recovery lab, you may achieve a higher recovery rate by manually specifying the correct RAID parameters. Should you know only some characteristics of the RAID array, Magic RAID Recovery will help identify the remaining parameters automatically.
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Technical Specifications
Supported RAID configurations, file systems, storage formats, encryption, and access methods.
Supported RAID Levels
Standard
- RAID 0
- RAID 1
- RAID 4
- RAID 5
- RAID 6
Enhanced
- RAID 1E
- RAID 5E / RAID 5EE
Hybrid
- RAID 0+1
- RAID 10
- RAID 50
- RAID 60
Additional
- JBOD
- X-RAID
- RAIDZ1 / RAIDZ2 / RAIDZ3
Supported File Systems
Windows
- NTFS
- ReFS
- FAT
- FAT32
- exFAT
- HikvisionFS
macOS
- APFS
- HFS+
Linux
- Ext2
- Ext3
- Ext4
- XFS
- Btrfs
- ReiserFS
- ZFS
Unix
- UFS1 / UFS2
Storage Support
NAS / SAN Systems
D-Link, Iomega, Netgear, Seagate, SmartStor, Thecus, QNAP, Zyxel, and many others
RAID Controllers
Adaptec, Areca, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, LSI, MegaRAID, NEC, and others
Software RAID
Apple RAID, Linux software RAID (Btrfs, LVM, mdadm), Windows RAID volumes, and Windows Storage Spaces
Disk & Image Support
Physical disks, partitions, logical volumes, virtual and forensic images. Formats include VMDK, VHD/VHDX, VDI, QCOW/QCOW2, E01/EWF, AFF/AFF4, AD1, DMG, ASIF, sparseimage, and sparsebundle.
Encrypted Storage
BitLocker, VeraCrypt, LUKS, FileVault, EFS-encrypted files, and encrypted disk images
Platforms & Access
Supported Operating Systems
- Windows XP – 11
- Windows Server 2008 – 2022
- macOS 10.4 Tiger – 26 Tahoe
- Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, openSUSE, and others)
Access Methods
- Direct-attached storage (SATA, SAS, USB, NVMe)
- Local disk image files
- Network storage (NAS / SAN)
- Remote systems over SSH
System Requirements
- Windows: x86- or x64-based processor
- macOS: Intel x64 or Apple silicon (ARM64)
- Linux: x64-based processor
- Administrator privileges or root access
- A writable destination with enough free space for recovered files
Features Overview
Key capabilities for RAID arrays, NAS devices, disk images, encrypted volumes, and virtual disks.
Automatic RAID and NAS Recovery
Automatically rebuild RAID arrays, NAS volumes, Windows Storage Spaces, AppleRAID, LVM, ZFS pools, and other storage configurations.
Encrypted Disk and Volume Recovery
Unlock BitLocker, LUKS, VeraCrypt, FileVault, EFS-protected files, and encrypted disk images using passwords, recovery keys, or keyfiles.
Virtual Machine Disk Recovery
Recover files from VMware, ESXi, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, Parallels, and QEMU/KVM virtual disks, including snapshots, split disks, and compressed images.
Disk Images and Forensic Formats
Open E01/EWF, AFF/AFF4, AD1, DMG, ASIF, sparseimage, and sparsebundle files, including split, compressed, encrypted, and forensic disk images.
Lost Partitions and Damaged File Systems
Recover deleted partitions and files from damaged NTFS, ReFS, FAT/exFAT, APFS, HFS+, Ext, XFS, Btrfs, ZFS, and other file systems.
File Preview and Safe Recovery
Preview found files, verify their quality, and save recoverable data to another disk while the source storage stays protected in read-only mode.
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What Our Customers Say
Feedback from users who recovered lost files and data with our software.
George Barker
After my old four-bay NAS box had failed, I had the choice of buying a replacement four-bay box or migrating to dual bays with larger disks. Magic RAID Recovery helped me migrate the data without a fuss.
Rupert James
I had four 3TB Seagate drives in a RAID 5. One of the drives died. I didn’t want to risk my data by letting the RAID rebuild, and used Magic RAID Recovery to copy the files over to a single 10TB external.
Nicky Walker
A failed firmware update bricked my Qnap NAS. Support didn’t help reviving the unit, so I used Magic RAID Recovery that helped me save my data to the newer and bigger replacement disk.
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