Help me recover my PC RAID1 please - Gigabyte Z170 board

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I have had a system board failure on a fairly old machine - MB is Gigabyte Z170 gaming K3

Replaced the system board and all is good except my RAID 1 isn't working

I still have my data but the drives are no longer in RAID

I don't remember how I set them up and as the other board is dead I can't get it from that

It's definitely RAID1 and I think the options are the Intel RST and another one which seems to be

If I set RST on I get a menu on boot which I didn't get before and also my primary SSD wont boot so this all suggests it wasn't like this

EZ RAID just gives me the option to create a new RAID (wiping the data out)

Don't know of relevant but disks also use Bitlocker

Anyone know how to resolve or any guesses as to what I can try?

Attached is screenshot of disk manager

Thanks
 

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This is why I use Windows storage spaces
Instead of Motherboard hardware raid
Motherboard fails or you upgrade it
Storage spaces are still there

Looks like you can get into windows
Does intel rst software have a rebuild option?
 
Yeah not knowing how
You set it up complicates things
When you say I still have my data
You mean you know it's there but you can't
Actually read it?

Depending how much data you're talking about
And if you have the hard drive space
I would probably make an image of it
Before trying stuff

Test disk software may be of some help
Though not sure about bitlocker
That may make life harder
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
Yeah not knowing how
You set it up complicates things
When you say I still have my data
You mean you know it's there but you can't
Actually read it?

Depending how much data you're talking about
And if you have the hard drive space
I would probably make an image of it
Before trying stuff

Test disk software may be of some help
Though not sure about bitlocker
That may make life harder
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I can see the data fine but as a single drive so I do have the option to back up, recreate the RAID and restore but I would need to get myself a new disk around the 10TB mark to do this and probably remove bitlocker too
 
Rotty said:
I can see the data fine but as a single drive so I do have the option to back up, recreate the RAID and restore but I would need to get myself a new disk around the 10TB mark to do this and probably remove bitlocker too
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Well main thing is you haven't lost the data
Perhaps ask in wanted section
If someone could lend you a 10tb drive
So you can do that?
Got no drives that big or would offer

Other option get an identical board
To the one that failed?
That way the options will also be same
As when you set it up

It's probably possible
To rebuild the raid somehow using software
But I wouldn't like to try that without an image backup first
Software from easeus or aomei may be available

Sorry no
To initially set up a storage space
It will format the drives
 
At least the boards identical
To be honest getting another drive
Is probably the easiest option
You could spend a lot of time trying stuff

You could either as you said
Sell it on
Or use it in a storage space with 3 drives
Guessing you don't want to be
Doing hardware raid again
Unless you write down the exact steps you take
And store that safely somewhere
 
And for what it's worth
I have used storage spaces
For a very long time
Multiple motherboard, cpu upgrades
God only knows how many windows installs
Windows image restores etc

In all of that storage spaces has only ever once
Totally failed on me
The REFS file system certainly is resilient
You could keep the extra drive
And store image files of
The new raid/storage spaces as another option
 
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