hi, can anyone pls suggest any software that can be used to recover data from a crashed raid-5 configuration. the array had 3 disks and 2 went bad. or can data be recovered at all??? thanks in advance

Your data is burnt...or dead. "Republicans in Congress are moving to ratify a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning, thus ending the Iraq insurgency."

If you don't have a backup (shame shame!) you could try sending all the drives to Ontrack or another drive recovery place. It's awfully expensive when you have a complex setup like RAID. Expect to spend around $2000 or more if you need it faster.

it depends on what is dead. you can find drives with good circuit boards and replace them on the two that failed you may get your data back.

No backups. The worst mistake you can make with networks... There is no software to recover raid systems if the disks are not able to spin up. Now if you can get atleast one of the disks to spin up (depending on what is bad) there is software to recover or they might come up in the array long enough to recover the data. Raid 5 needs two working disks....Now if you have never disassembled a drive before it may not be your best bet. Otherwise as Jason suggested contact ontrack as i have found them the best in the recovery business. Not the cheapest but the best. Depends what your data is worth. www.ontrack.com