Re: I deleted a raid 1 array, now cannot access the data on either disk.

It sounds like you, errantly, used non-identical disks and have ended up
with a corrupted set of your OS and data. I believe you have probably lost
your data at this point and may just have to reformat and do a clean install
of the OS and install your back-up copy of your data (photos and music). You
DO have a back up copy, right, on CD's or DVD's? If not, now you know why
you should.

--
DaveW

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"phorner" <u16111@uwe> wrote in message news:57ebf5018cffe@xxxxxx
>I need to regain access to either of two SATA drives from a Raid 1
>
> array which I deleted. I know nothing about SATA, and have run up
>
> against a wall on researching this.
>
> I have an MSI KT6v board with two onboard SATA connections. My OS is
>
> WinXP Pro. I have two identical 120 GB SATA drives. I originally set
>
> this machine up with Raid 1 because mirroring seemed like a good idea.
>
> It Worked fine for awhile, then started to be unstable. Eventually I
>
> could not access the system, (Problems were that disks weren't
>
> identical, so the system would duplicate, then I would get the fatal
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> blue screen and some windows registry error. For a while I could repair
>
> windows and fix but eventually I could not boot at all.)
>
>
> So I bought and installed an IDE drive, installed WinXP and other
>
> programs. I had to delete the Raid Array to do this, but thought I
>
> would be able to access at least one of the SATA drives as just a
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> storage drive as noted in the MSI documentation. (I have family
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> photos and music I don't want to lose)
>
> In Windows device manager, neither of the SATA drives shows up, and the
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> Raid controller shows a big yellow question mark/ exclamation point. I
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> have tried to reinstall drivers, but the only drivers seem to want to
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> set up another RAid Array which I think will wipe out both of these
>
> drives.
>
> I restart and can access bios - which has SATA controller enabled under
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> Integrated peripherals, but under boot seqence there is no SATA drive.
>
>
> Can anyone help?


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