RAID-5 recovery DIY

[Neo_X]

Basically i have a 10-disc 300GB Software RAID-5 which decided to turn heads up after i installed a controller driver while the set was regenerating.
Bascially 3 of the 10 drives reverted back to basic Discs under the disc management, causing the RAID volume to be unavailable

Anybody knows of software under R1k that is capable of recovering a broken RAID-5?

Would prefer to test recovery first before purchasing. Current options i have tried seems that it will take like 4 days to analyze the RAID in order to recover it. With current Eishcum abusing our power rights, i dont think my pc can stay on for four days at one time

Thx for the Help guys

 

[SilverNodashi]

as you have learned from this, RAID 5 isn't the best option, since it can only handle 1 disk failure. With 10 HDD's, rather use RAID 10 or RAID 6.

Anyway, wat OS are you using, and what file format is the HDD's in?

 

[Neo_X]

Learning phase are tough..
but will try RAID10 in the next set with bigger discs.
OS : Windows XP
NTFS
Used a "patch" from i think 2k3 to allow software RAID-5 on it. Dont think it was the cause of the problem tho, as i have
another pc with a similar setup running without any hitches.

EDIT : RAID6? havent seen that yet.