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This is Dad's study PC, not my gaming rig. It's an i5 750 @ 4.2GHz, ASUS P7P55D Motherboard, an Intel X25-M 80GB SSD as boot drive (C:\) and two Western Digital Caviar Black 640GBs running in RAID1 (Data Mirroring) for storage (D:\).
TLDR; BIOS has reset losing the overclock (meh, who cares) and the RAID settings. What do I do to get the array back without losing data?
Full story:
Somehow the BIOS has been reset to defaults. I'd assume a power failure during boot or similar, but no-one knows when/how it happened. Maybe the battery has died? I simply noticed that it came up with the ASUS full-screen logo at POST (it's normally disabled) and then in Windows the overclock had gone and the usual Intel Matrix Storage Manager balloon saying 'Your drives are functioning normally and you are protected against a single drive failure' didn't appear. Then I had a fiddle around and realised that the BIOS had been reset
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In the BIOS the SATA is configured to IDE (the default).
In Windows the drive letters seem to be normal, the SSD is still C:\ and the RAID array is still D:\. I can still browse the RAID array, but I'd assume it's running off of only one of the two drives.
In the Windows Disk Management thing it lists Disk 1 as the D:\ drive and says it's Online - 596.04GB HTFS. Healthy (Page File, Primary Partition). That's obviously one of the Caviar Blacks that should in the the RAID1 array.
It then lists Disk 2 as being Offline - 596.04GB. That must be the other Caviar Black.
In the Intel Matrix Storage Manager program it lists the Caviar Blacks under the Non-RAID drives tab (along with the X25-M) and reports them all as being healthy.
I then went into the BIOS and configured SATA to be RAID and went into the Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM utility on the Mobo (CTRL + I at POST). All three of the physical drives are listed as being Non-RAID disks and no RAID volumes are defined.
So, what I want to do is create a RAID volume but keeping the data that's already on the Caviar Blacks. I'm assuming the worst-case scenario and that Dad hasn't backed up anything (but I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised and find that he had!)
Any ideas on what to do? I'm tempted to whip out one of the Caviar Blacks and clone it onto another drive before doing anything! In the Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM utility on the Mobo I notice that aswell as Create RAID Volume there's Recovery Volume Options listed on the main menu. Is that worth a shot?
TY, and congratulations if you read it all!
Ed.
.This is Dad's study PC, not my gaming rig. It's an i5 750 @ 4.2GHz, ASUS P7P55D Motherboard, an Intel X25-M 80GB SSD as boot drive (C:\) and two Western Digital Caviar Black 640GBs running in RAID1 (Data Mirroring) for storage (D:\).
TLDR; BIOS has reset losing the overclock (meh, who cares) and the RAID settings. What do I do to get the array back without losing data?
Full story:
Somehow the BIOS has been reset to defaults. I'd assume a power failure during boot or similar, but no-one knows when/how it happened. Maybe the battery has died? I simply noticed that it came up with the ASUS full-screen logo at POST (it's normally disabled) and then in Windows the overclock had gone and the usual Intel Matrix Storage Manager balloon saying 'Your drives are functioning normally and you are protected against a single drive failure' didn't appear. Then I had a fiddle around and realised that the BIOS had been reset
.In the BIOS the SATA is configured to IDE (the default).
In Windows the drive letters seem to be normal, the SSD is still C:\ and the RAID array is still D:\. I can still browse the RAID array, but I'd assume it's running off of only one of the two drives.
In the Windows Disk Management thing it lists Disk 1 as the D:\ drive and says it's Online - 596.04GB HTFS. Healthy (Page File, Primary Partition). That's obviously one of the Caviar Blacks that should in the the RAID1 array.
It then lists Disk 2 as being Offline - 596.04GB. That must be the other Caviar Black.
In the Intel Matrix Storage Manager program it lists the Caviar Blacks under the Non-RAID drives tab (along with the X25-M) and reports them all as being healthy.
I then went into the BIOS and configured SATA to be RAID and went into the Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM utility on the Mobo (CTRL + I at POST). All three of the physical drives are listed as being Non-RAID disks and no RAID volumes are defined.
So, what I want to do is create a RAID volume but keeping the data that's already on the Caviar Blacks. I'm assuming the worst-case scenario and that Dad hasn't backed up anything (but I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised and find that he had!)
Any ideas on what to do? I'm tempted to whip out one of the Caviar Blacks and clone it onto another drive before doing anything! In the Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM utility on the Mobo I notice that aswell as Create RAID Volume there's Recovery Volume Options listed on the main menu. Is that worth a shot?
TY, and congratulations if you read it all!
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