Software raid?

[simon.deighton]

Ok forgive the wall of text backstory but here goes :

So I had my os on my SSD (Windows7) and 2 x 500gb drives which were mirrored through the disk management console.

Recently I bought a copy of Windows 8, and did a fresh install of this onto my SSD. NOTE: At the time I had unplugged both the 500gb drives as I was having trouble getting the Win 8 installer to run at all untill I did this.

Now after plugging the 500gb drives back in im having trouble accessing them. Does anyone have any suggestions of what to do?

Im wondering whether Im missing some raid drivers on the Mobo because ive done a fresh install from 7 to 8? (My mobo is the Asus p6t as details in the spec in my sig)

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Thansks!

 

[skyripper]

Which flavour of raid are we talking about - hardware raid (dedicated raid card / motherboard raid), software raid by Windows or software raid by another utility?

Hardware raid drivers will not fix seeing / not seeing disks that have been mirrored using Windows.

What does Disk Management say about the 500gb drives? Is the drive itself visible, or is it just the partitions that have not been added?

 

[simon.deighton]

I thnk it was software raid as I dont have a raid card

And I think from memory I can see the drives greyed out in disk management only, cantr see them in my computer for example.

Will check on that later im at work not with my machine right now

 

[jh30uk]

Software Raid is on a Mobo with no Raid capabilities, and its done in the Windows OS after the OS is installed.

Some will try say Hardware Raid need be a dedicated card but Intel SATA Raid controllers with there own CPU/Cache on the Chipset are good enough today.

 

[tribz]

So I had my os on my SSD (Windows7) and 2 x 500gb drives which were mirrored through the disk management console.

If it was done via disk management and you can see the disks in your current disk management, you probably just need to import the foreign disks. Should be an option if you right click on them.

 

[Ploppy2k3]

If it was done via disk management and you can see the disks in your current disk management, you probably just need to import the foreign disks. Should be an option if you right click on them.

+1

if this doesn't work start with only 1 drive. As its a mirror it may import as a broken mirror. I have seen this on 2008R2 enough times and in SBS.