Windows allows users to configure drives as logical volumes. These can then be set to function as single drives, RAID 0, RAID 1 or RAID 5 or as a spanned volume all under the control of windows disk manager.

When this goes wrong, then Data recovery from software based RAID systems requires intricate knowledge of how windows stores the information across the drives. Considering that users can append volumes to existing arrays to increase storage space. For example, you can append a hardware RAID 0 array to an existing software based RAID 5 array - this will show as a single volume in disk manager.

When it comes to recovering data from this type of configuration, then expert help is at hand. Our engineers have developed software for internal use, that recognises all the drives in a volume set and pre-configures the recovery resulting in the best possible data recovery.