Random, request help please!

R3dge

R3dge

R3dge

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I'm going to get straight to the point :).

We just moved house recently. The move went well etc, etc. I set up my rig and looked inside, it was a bit dirty so in the new frame of mind after the move i went sinde and cleaned it of the little dust what was there. I then proceed to turn my pc on after setting it up. I get a message like to format, so i was like god i hit something. It then says go to bios or reset, i check bios everything is as it should. I reboot, same message comes up so i reset, which i then think wiped the bios to standard. Anyway, so now this i try format my pc, i had 3 hard drives two dualled into 1 and 1 for my os. I try formatting my os drive to no avail, it was showing up as not meeting the criteria for a format. So after much messing about i remove my two storage hdd's, then retry a format. It works, but when i plug them in and restart it won't let me into windows unless they aren't plugged in. Once windows is up i can plug them in and they show up but they don't show up as having any space. They're just there with no options or any space on them.

Any help would be REALLY appreciated, regards, R3dge

My rig is as follows:

Intel Core i7 940
EVGA GeForce GTX 295
Asus Rampage II Extreme Intel X58
Corsair TX 750W
Asus Xonar DX 7.1 PCI-Express Sound Card
x 2 - Samsung SpinPoint F1 500GB
Samsung SpinPoint S 80GB
G.Skill 6GB DDR3
 
yeah, i changed it to priority and as secondary. Still nothing. I had a friend round and he was as confused as me.


This is what my computer looks like:

 
There is only 3 options to choose from so it's not hard to mix it. There is: Floppy, cd drive and then my hdd. They are the choices, i moved them round and then back. I haven't changed any cables round since i got my pc. I bought it from here, all custom built and haven't changed anything inside. I literally opened the case to clean the fans. I am too scared to mess with the equipment inside my rig as it cost me a pretty penny and my experience with building is limited.
 
tried to no avail. If i reboot my rig now it takes me to a screen saying the name of my mono and some options. But soon as i take the hdd's out it boots up fine :/.
 
yeah they're identical, when i had it on before this problem when i went into my computer it only showed as two drives.
 
I agree with the bios, i have reset it by accident and i am not too familiar with bio's to get my self out of this mess. THANKS for your helping me. I really do appreciate it.
 
So they're just competing with each other to be the primary boot? Why is it they show up in my computer with no space on them?
 
I never changed the sata settings. All i have touched is IDE to the other setting(forgot what is was called) then rebooted, tried reinstalling os, nothing. Took the supporting hdd's out to leave the main os hdd in. Booted up installed windows without a hitch. Put other hdd's in and then rebooted, wouldn't but up. So i took them out and rebooted it started. Plugged the supporting hdd's in they showed up but as the picture shows are in that state. I then message on here, i tried the hdd priority and then changed it to default. Then i am up to date with you.
 
When OCuK phoned and asked what raid i would like the 'slave' drives in i let them choose, they said raid 1 was for and raid 0 was for and for the life of me i cannot remember which they used for the 'slave' drives. I know the out of 1 and 0 they used the one which would perform quicker in the 'save' mode, and as dual hdd's.
 
i have an e-mail and all that shows is the items i bought not what modes or oc'ing they did. I am willing to lose the data, but can i change the raid from 1 to 0 or 0 to 1? Once they have been set, or will i need to reset the bios again?
 
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