Question regarding raid recovery

[grralph]

I have a 3 disk raid5 where one disk is dead the other two look like they have data on them. I suspect that there is a problem with the raid controller hardware. The disks are sata drives.

With Zar can I put these disks in a standard box as additional drives (none RAID) and then select these as the raid5 for recovery?

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Yes. Two disks are enough for a three-disk RAID 5. Select these two disks for a RAID 5 recovery and ZAR should frist rebuild the RAID and then get the data from it.

[grralph]

Originally Posted by Alexey V. Gubin

Yes. Two disks are enough for a three-disk RAID 5. Select these two disks for a RAID 5 recovery and ZAR should frist rebuild the RAID and then get the data from it.

Thank you very much for the reply.
I should have searched through the forum a little more before I asked the question but I was really rushed for time.
I will invest in a full copy of ZAR.

I just recovered a USB drive for a friend that appeared completely dead with zero bytes used and zero bytes available.

It is an excellent program.
Thank You
grralph