Raid problem, have 2xmx100 mirrored raid.

Serial45 · 20 May 2015 at 00:07

Hi guys.
I setup a raid on my old system 2x mx100 dries in mirrored raid.
Just got a new motherboard and cpu (rampage V and 5930k)

I've pluged the 2xmx100 into ports 1 and 2 on the intel. In the intel raid manager it will not allow me to create a raid.
It shows two drives.
1) Non-raid disk.
2) Member disc 0.
I've tried to reset the disk to non raid disc, tried deleting raid volume.And even tried killdisk to format the drives. Will only let me format one of them...

Serial45 · 20 May 2015 at 08:52

Here's a pic of the problem I'm having windows won't even let me install on one of the disks

http://s18.postimg.org/fasxelamh/image.jpg

Serial45 · 20 May 2015 at 12:50

i've installed windows on a rubbish 1tb sata I have laying around.
I've booted to windows. I've unlinked the 2x500gb drives. One of them is formatted and usable within windows.
However the other drive still thinks it's part of a raid - I can't do anything with it. Won't let me format it, convert it.
I'm at a loss with what to do, any help greatly appreciated.

http://s16.postimg.org/idxi9a11h/Untitled.jpg

ChrisD. · 20 May 2015 at 13:52

What are you trying to do? Mirror or stripe? Two vastly different things.

Just my 2p, but raiding SSD's is pointless unless you're video editing 4k or something like that. Every day it'll be slower to boot as it has to load the RAID BIOS on startup, and you won't notice any difference. More hassle than it's worth.

Serial45 · 20 May 2015 at 13:56

Setting them up striped mate. Either way I can't recover one of the drives as it thinks it's still raided

ChrisD. · 20 May 2015 at 14:13

Download http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-storage-executive, 'sanitize' the drives and try again. If this doesn't work then it's likely the Intel RAID utility things the drive is still a member.

Steampunk · 20 May 2015 at 16:02

Have you tried using the Intel Rapid Storage application from inside Windows? I usually find it easier to set up one disk the way I want, then use the app to create an array and copy the data as required.

ubersonic · 20 May 2015 at 16:37

You get stuff like this happen from time to time with software raid.

Change the BIOS setting from RAID to AHCI or IDE, boot with a Windows DVD, delete any partitions on each drive and format them. Reboot and change back to RAID in BIOS, reboot and it should show both as non members and let you create an array.

spoffle · 20 May 2015 at 16:43

I had this problem a little while back. I downloaded EaseUS and used it to wipe the drive.