Here's my situation. I have an ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe MB and 4 Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB SATA Hard Drives in an on board RAID 1 + 0 array, plus an old Maxtor 320 GB IDE drive that I was using as a boot drive. It had system commander on it, and Vista Home Premium and Win 7 all in 32 & 64 bit flavors, as well as other OS'es. Also have a couple external HD's, but never got a full back up done to them before the problem.
So the Maxtor IDE boot drive dies!
I decide to order an SSD-HD drive to replace the boot drive since I have to reinstall the OS anyway.
In the meantime I swap out one of the 2 SATA optical drives to my wife's new build. So when I go to install Win 7 (64-bit) on the SSD, the BIOS won't boot to the optical drive unless I change all options to Boot to optical. In figuring this out I disconnect the whole array too, and like an idiot, don’t mark which drive was on which channel. I finally get it installed and now no array.
The MoBo has 6 SATA channels, but says channels 5 and 6 can only be used in RAID mode. I think I had the array on channels 1-4, but can’t recall or figure it out, so I find a 2nd old IDE HD and install Win 7 (64-bit) on it and trial and error it until I think I find the right channels, but still no array is seen in Windows.
About then my Bro-in-law (an IT guy) comes to visit, and he plays with it while I’m mowing the lawn, and proclaims that I have a bad HD in the array. I’d previously bought a 5th drive for just such an event, but had used it in my wife's new build, so I had to order another.
When I finally get a replacement drive I go to install it, but can’t seem to figure it out.
The NVIDIA utility in Windows shows 3 disks in a degraded array and the 4th (new) disk as a separate RAID, but windows shows none of them.
This is my first attempt at a RAID array. The reason I did a RAID 1 + 0 was so that I didn’t have to worry as much about losing my data, and if a drive died, I could just replace it and move on. I just can’t figure out how to do that in this situation.
With 3 of the 4 drives still seen, I should be able to tell Win 7 to see the drive (not sure how) and then back it up to the external drive. Then I could try to put the new 4th drive in the existing array, and if I screw it up, at least I’ve still got ALL my data backed-up. I also figure that if I have to move the array to channels 3-6 (so the Optical and SSD/boot can use 1 and 2) that I may have to start from scratch to do so, and that may cause me to lose everything in the array at that point anyway.
Can anyone offer me some basic directions as to how to fix this?
TIA
So the Maxtor IDE boot drive dies!
I decide to order an SSD-HD drive to replace the boot drive since I have to reinstall the OS anyway.
In the meantime I swap out one of the 2 SATA optical drives to my wife's new build. So when I go to install Win 7 (64-bit) on the SSD, the BIOS won't boot to the optical drive unless I change all options to Boot to optical. In figuring this out I disconnect the whole array too, and like an idiot, don’t mark which drive was on which channel. I finally get it installed and now no array.
The MoBo has 6 SATA channels, but says channels 5 and 6 can only be used in RAID mode. I think I had the array on channels 1-4, but can’t recall or figure it out, so I find a 2nd old IDE HD and install Win 7 (64-bit) on it and trial and error it until I think I find the right channels, but still no array is seen in Windows.
About then my Bro-in-law (an IT guy) comes to visit, and he plays with it while I’m mowing the lawn, and proclaims that I have a bad HD in the array. I’d previously bought a 5th drive for just such an event, but had used it in my wife's new build, so I had to order another.
When I finally get a replacement drive I go to install it, but can’t seem to figure it out.
The NVIDIA utility in Windows shows 3 disks in a degraded array and the 4th (new) disk as a separate RAID, but windows shows none of them.
This is my first attempt at a RAID array. The reason I did a RAID 1 + 0 was so that I didn’t have to worry as much about losing my data, and if a drive died, I could just replace it and move on. I just can’t figure out how to do that in this situation.
With 3 of the 4 drives still seen, I should be able to tell Win 7 to see the drive (not sure how) and then back it up to the external drive. Then I could try to put the new 4th drive in the existing array, and if I screw it up, at least I’ve still got ALL my data backed-up. I also figure that if I have to move the array to channels 3-6 (so the Optical and SSD/boot can use 1 and 2) that I may have to start from scratch to do so, and that may cause me to lose everything in the array at that point anyway.
Can anyone offer me some basic directions as to how to fix this?
TIA