Help Raid and SSD gone?

powdaman

powdaman

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Using my computer this morning without issues. All of a sudden it completely crashes. I turned it off and on again and it says that one of the disks is no longer part of the RAID? I have deleted and recreated the RAID successfully and I cant see any errors (Gigabyte motherboard states the RAID has been created successfully and is running normal) but nothing can see it and windows doesnt boot. when putting the Windows disk and trying to run repair or reinstall it cannot see any drives.

Tried access both drives without RAID but windows doesnt see either of them? WTF???

HELP!!!
 
If you've deleted and recreated the RAID haven't you wiped all the data?

If you've wiped the data then you won't be able to do a repair you'll only be able to a fresh installation.

If the Windows disk doesn't have a driver for the RAID then it won't see it. You need to provide a RAID driver as part of the installation process. How you do this depends on which version of Windows you're using.
 
I know it was a last resort. But even when trying to do fresh installation it doesn't see either drive (or both in raid). What I dont understand is that the gigabyte raid controller see's them but nothing else can? Duff ssd? Duff motherboard? I'm stumped. Found an old sat a drive which is installing at moment (window 7). Once up I'll see if windows can access them.... Guess it's rma time, bought whole system from over clockers but not looking forward to life without puter!!!
 
Again, if there's no driver then Windows won't see the RAID.

The RAID controller can see the RAID at a hardware level but WINDOWS WON'T SEE IT WITHOUT A DRIVER.
 
You are correct BIOS is set to RAID. and the drives are OCZ summit drives, after perusing website I could not find any drivers....

Instructions state that is should just "see" them?
 
FYI now in Windows 7 again on my spare SATA and I cannot see them at all in Disk Management... I'll play around with BIOS again but I'm thinking this is Mobo failure of sorts as I doubt both SSD's would fail simultaneously??
 
Ok. so lets just say that the RAID failed and I am able to get the array working again (be it with complete loss of data). Is this common with SSD's? should I stay away from RAID 0 (is it normal to only get just under a year out of it prior to RAID 0 failing?). or is it more to the point that either SSD or Mobo needs RMA'ing?

(Raid driver for Gigabyte motherboard found and so I can see RAID 0 SSD's again - question definately stands as above)...
 
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A RAID array doesn't just fail because of the passage of time.

It usually fails because of a disk or motherboard failure.

RAID0 is always a risky venture as the failure of one disk loses all your data.

If you provide the model of your motherboard we may be able to give some guidance on trying to install to the RAID.

If you want to test what is faulty try installing Windows to each SSD separately in AHCI mode (not in RAID) having disconnected all other drives first. Try using different SATA ports on the motherboard.
 
Well windows is now successfully installing on the RAID array that failed. Surely if an SSD fails it stops working completely? I'm very confused. I know what you are saying about installing to SSD separately but surely if i can installed to a RAID 0 setup then nothing has actually terminally failed?

I guess I'll phone overclockers support on monday for more technical assistance and advice on what could have happend...
 
powdaman said:
been live and working quite happily now for 24 hours (ish). Anyone have a good tool for testing SSD disks within Windows 7 x64?
Click to expand...

Nice one, do you know what caused the problem in the 1st place? I don't have SSD drives, I just use checkdisk and HDTune for my normal HDD's oh and boottimer just to remind me how slow I boot compared to others lol
 
I had a motherboard fall out of RAID once. Still to this day no idea why. Fortunately the disks were ok, so once I cleared the CMOS and set everything exactly how it used to be, the RAID controller picked up the drives as they were previously and carried on merrily.

I would recommend against RAID0 for your OS drive though. I think it's pretty much redundant with SSD's now anyway, one is just so fast. Is there something you're getting from the RAID0 set-up that is important to how your computer operates? Or is it just for enthusiast purposes?
 
If you didn't actually need to install any drivers for the RAID and Windows just all of a sudden started seeing your RAID setup again, I think that would indicate that your RAID controler may be on the fritz and that you best avoid it.
 
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