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Alright guys, got a question for you:
I've recently had a PSU fail, I tore the whole system apart and dismantled my RAID 1 Array (2 WD 2TB Greens, using the Gigabyte SATA ports on my mobo set to RAID1 Safe in BIOS, used only for photos and such, the OS is on an SSD)
I then used one of the HDD's from that array as an external drive for my laptop while I sorted my desktop out. As a result I now have 2 identical hard drives that used to be in RAID 1 that have a slight differences in the data they contain.
I plugged me more up to date one back in and backed it up to a 3rd HDD.
Then I went and plugged both of the previously RAIDed drives into the motherboard again, went into the BIOS where I was told the RAID was degraded. The only option there seemed to be to remove the RAID, set it to "normal" i.e. just 2 regular HDDs, then set it up again (warning all data will be lost, blah, blah) and seeing as I'd already forseen this possibility and backed up, I went ahead with the re-RAIDing.
When I booted back into windows I had a 2TB drive showing up with all my data still on it, which I thought was strange. So I went into Computer Management, where it shows my 2TB as "Disk 0 Basic" which just means its a simple single disk doesn't it? I thought previous it had shown up there as a Volume, not a Disk, or am I getting confused?
This begs the questions: Where is the other disk, because that doesn't show up in Comp Man, I assume that's because they're both E:? And then assuming it isn't RAIDed properly how do I restore the RAID properly? Should I format it all and start again?
Full sys specs:
i7 920
Gigabyte EX58-UD5
Intel SSD (OS etc plugged into one of the 6 standard 1366 SATA ports)
2 x 2TB WD Greens (Plugged into Gigabytes own SATA ports, using their own controller)
So to summarise do I need to start from scratch again or is "Disk 0 basic" normal, and the RAID working?
Cheers in advance guys
Matt
I've recently had a PSU fail, I tore the whole system apart and dismantled my RAID 1 Array (2 WD 2TB Greens, using the Gigabyte SATA ports on my mobo set to RAID1 Safe in BIOS, used only for photos and such, the OS is on an SSD)
I then used one of the HDD's from that array as an external drive for my laptop while I sorted my desktop out. As a result I now have 2 identical hard drives that used to be in RAID 1 that have a slight differences in the data they contain.
I plugged me more up to date one back in and backed it up to a 3rd HDD.
Then I went and plugged both of the previously RAIDed drives into the motherboard again, went into the BIOS where I was told the RAID was degraded. The only option there seemed to be to remove the RAID, set it to "normal" i.e. just 2 regular HDDs, then set it up again (warning all data will be lost, blah, blah) and seeing as I'd already forseen this possibility and backed up, I went ahead with the re-RAIDing.
When I booted back into windows I had a 2TB drive showing up with all my data still on it, which I thought was strange. So I went into Computer Management, where it shows my 2TB as "Disk 0 Basic" which just means its a simple single disk doesn't it? I thought previous it had shown up there as a Volume, not a Disk, or am I getting confused?
This begs the questions: Where is the other disk, because that doesn't show up in Comp Man, I assume that's because they're both E:? And then assuming it isn't RAIDed properly how do I restore the RAID properly? Should I format it all and start again?
Full sys specs:
i7 920
Gigabyte EX58-UD5
Intel SSD (OS etc plugged into one of the 6 standard 1366 SATA ports)
2 x 2TB WD Greens (Plugged into Gigabytes own SATA ports, using their own controller)
So to summarise do I need to start from scratch again or is "Disk 0 basic" normal, and the RAID working?
Cheers in advance guys
Matt
I've found a Gigabyte tool that seems to imply they're in RAID, and that the drives are currently syncing and the tool lists the RAID as rebuilding.