You must know the following:

• Disk order.
• The First Sector number, which is 63 (or 32 for some IBM disks) unless other partitions precede the RAID partition.

If the disks are from a NAS (Network-Attached Storage) device that uses a customized version of Windows®, you will also need to determine the Block Size, which may not be the default value 64 KB for software RAID.

Reconstruct the RAID

Reconstruct RAID 5

• Start File Scavenger. Select Quick Search. Click Advanced.
• Select Striped Volume, With Parity. Choose the number of disks.
• Select Software-based. Select either the Windows® NT or Windows® 2000/2003/Vista parity rotation. Click OK.
• Select the disks in the correct order. For each disk, specify the First Sector value. Click Add. Click OK after all disks have been selected.
• Choose the Block Size of 64 KB and click OK.
• To recover files, you need a Professional-Use license. See "Purchasing a License" in Chapter 6.

Use the Long Search if the Quick Search does not succeed.