HELP after BIOs update

ash_scotland88 · 22 Feb 2012 at 18:12

I updated my BIOS after recomendation on here. Went fine, restarted and windows loaded up.
Now my raid5 array has reset and is missing a hard-drive anyway. On the start up it doesn't even list what's all connected (skips that page) and I can't seem to enter the BIOS settings anyway.

Help I totally lost and confused what to do.

Raumarik · 22 Feb 2012 at 18:51

Enter the RAID controller settings on boot (if it's separate) and see if you can recover the previous config. If it was a build in motherboard RAID controller though you've probably wiped the settings by the sounds of it so unless the drives know how they were previously configured you might have to guess or restore (if you backed up the BIOS first).

Hopefully someone will be along shortly with a nice way of fixing it but I think you're in for a rough time.

ash_scotland88 · 22 Feb 2012 at 19:03

done some researching and all hard-drives and stuff have changed to ide, this will need to be set back.
If I can get the raid5 back up then surely a partition recovery software will work?

nightmare99 · 22 Feb 2012 at 19:27

Go into the BIOS and look for SATA Mode and set it to raid, once you set this it should pickup the exisiting raid set.

ash_scotland88 · 22 Feb 2012 at 19:31

Yup. Got it all back. First option for IDE set to Raid and then a second option was also IDE so set that to ACHI.

All reports where saying there's issues with changing the OS drive to ACHI as well as issues with arrays. But I think that was if the OS was on the array itself.