Retrodata RAID Recovery

If your Windows Server has crashed because of a failed hard drive, or your have swapped a hard drive from a failed RAID and the RAID rebuild has not worked, or appears to be hanging, we can help.  If the Server will not boot, or the file system is corrupt, our Engineers have extensive, industry-leading Windows Server recovery experience.  We don’t just understand storage and RAID; we understand Windows Server and all Microsoft Server products, and recover dynamic disks, corrupt dynamic volumes, active directory corruption and even unrecognised failure.  Because we know Microsoft products, we also know what to avoid when recovering Windows servers, and what issues could place your data at risk.

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If you’ve already attempted data recovery and nothing has worked, you need expert data recovery assistance.  The more you reboot a failed server, or try to rebuild or repair a RAID, the greater the chance of further data loss.  Even total, permanent data loss. If no recovery has been attempted, see this page.

If you contact us, we’ll be able to run through the failure and work out the best way forward.  If you have an emergency data crisis, we can help you.  Today.  When we receive your Server or storage array, we’ll first make backup clones of each individual hard drive.  This is our insurance policy against further data damage, or further drive failures during the recovery process.  We’ll then start the recovery, updating you throughout the procedure.  If you have critical data that is extremely urgent, we’ll concentrate on that first.  Whatever the failure, we’ll be able to help you.  Immediately.

Emergency Server Recovery We can often regenerate and rebuild your RAID and start recovering and extracting your data from within as little as one hour of receipt of the drives from your RAID array. For Domain Controllers and other, mission-critical servers, we could save you days of downtime. We also offer a Full Server Rebuild service.

Retrodata are able to recover data from any Windows Server, regardless of the version, and irrespective of the storage medium. This includes Windows Server 2000, Server 2003, Server 2008, and also Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Database repair and recovery, and Microsoft Exchange Server and Exchange Database repair and recovery.

Failed Windows Server: causes

• IT Admin or user error (the leading cause of permanent data loss)
• Hard drive failure – or multiple drive failure
• RAID controller failure
• RAID rebuild failure
• Firmware update failure or firmware corruption – usually in an external storage unit or NAS-type device.
• Power surge or power spike
• Incorrect drive substituted for the RAID rebuild process
• RAID array reinitialised / reinitialized

Windows Server Rebuild

Retrodata are not only data recovery engineers; we have highly skilled software engineers and for businesses running mission-critical servers with complex configurations, we offer a Full Server Rebuild service.

We will rebuild your server following the recovery so that it is returned to you in the same state as it was before the failure. All your applications, data, account and active directory settings (where applicable) will be intact. This can be of considerable benefit if the failed server would otherwise require days of setup and configuration, or if it has proprietary software installed.