Imaging RAID 5 array with 2 damaged drives

Reassemble RAID 5

1. Connect the drives to the ports of the TaskForce 2 hardware unit. Make sure the ports are in Source mode.
2. On the left in the TaskForce main window, click RAID.
3. Select the drives that make up the RAID array.
4. Click Continue.

Selecting RAID members

Detecting errors

The TaskForce 2 autodetection module starts running immediately, after you select the RAID devices.

Stage 1: TaskForce 2 reads data on the drives to identify RAID type. If it runs across an error, TaskForce 2 displays error tags next to the respective RAID member.

To see the number of errors encountered on a RAID member, simply hover the cursor over the error tag.

Error tags

Stage 2: TaskForce 2 goes through thousands of possible RAID configurations to identify a suitable one.

Once the configuration is detected, click the Apply button.

Applying the suggested RAID configuration

After you click Apply, TaskForce 2 automatically applies the suggested configuration and checks the file system for partitions.

Despite read errors, TaskForce 2 can mount the partitions for preview by rebuilding the data in the bad sectors using data redundancy inherent to this RAID type.

Imaging RAID 5 array with errors

1. After RAID configuration is successfully applied, click the Go to image button to proceed with imaging.

2. Select your target device or folder and click Continue.
3. To launch your imaging session, click Start.
4. When the TaskForce system encounters an error, it automatically reconstructs the missing data, using the data in the parity blocks on the remaining RAID members.

Coping with errors.

Thus TaskForce 2 can recover the full image. No operator involvement is necessary.

Imaging RAID 5 array.

Imaging report

TaskForce 2 automatically generates the Imaging completed report with all RAID details and timestamps.

TaskForce 2 managed to successfully reconstruct and image all the data. That is why the number of errors in the Imaging completed report is zero.

Imaging report.