Recover Raid 0 - Help please

RobG

RobG

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Hi,

I have (had) a raid 0 configured on my PC as a secondary/storage drive. Since replacing my motherboard under the sandy bridge replacement scheme, my raid is no longer recognised. I've made sure that raid is enabled in the BIOS and I've used the same ports but still no joy. At boot-up I press Ctrl+I to configure raid options and it shows one of the 2 discs as a 'non member disk' and nothing I do can change this.

I think the problem may have been caused by me reinstalling windows (on the primary drive, not either of the raid drives) whilst the raid wasn't configured. I'm assuming that during this process something must have interfered with the disc perhaps?

My situation now is that only one of the 2 drives is seen in 'My Computer' but isn't accessible. Both drives show in the BIOS and in 'Disk Management'. I've tried using the free software ReclaiMe but after 6 hours of scanning it hadn't made any progress.

This is my last shot before I bite the bullet and reformat both drives and lose everything. Any suggestions on how I may be able to recover this would be appreciated.

Cheers

Rob
 
You can move RAID configured drives from motherboard to motherboard.

I recently replaced my Gigabyte mobo under the Sandybridge replacement scheme and was able to setup RAID again.

I think you only need to rebuild the RAID configuration from the BIOS screen. You should see an option to create a RAID volume after you press CTRL + I. Should be straightforward.
 
Sylver123 said:
Does your new motherboards RAID configuration screen not have a recovery option available?
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I think I have tried all options but with no joy, can't be 100% sure though. I'll go boot it up now and see what I can do.

Cheers

Rob
 
Hi,

Just to let you know that I failed in my attempt to get the array back online and have just wiped both drives are started again.

Thanks all for your help.

Cheers

Rob
 
Same happened to me. Asus RAID 1 to Gigabyte RAID 1 same chipset etc. The raid controller just point blank refused to except the discs were in a RAID. Luckily they were raid 1 so i just pulled the data off and recreated it.
 
I would not use RAID for file storage just in case something like this happens.

Using RAID for your main OS drive is perfectly ok and is recommended to make fairly regular image backups of the drive that way if something
like this does happen, you can recreate your RAID volume and restore your image backup and then no data lost.

I am using RAID0 with a pair of Crucial RealSSD C300 256GBs and make regular image backups of my 100GB OS partition with StorageCraft ShadowProtect 4 Desktop Edition.
 
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Thanks for the 'kind' words guys. :D

I was disappointed as all I did was an exact like-for-like swap and suddenly one of my disks wasn't recognised as a 'member disk'. Oh well, at least I didn't lose anything earth shattering.

Cheers

Rob
 
There is software that can rebuild the array on another pc so you can recover all the data. used it recently on a customers and got it all back....too late now though :(
 
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