Re: Raid failure on A7N8x-E Deluxe

If the bios can't see the drives then windows can't see them as the fault is
at the bios / raid hardware level.

Have you tried removing the TV card you added originally?
I would also check the cabling - make sure the SATA drives are Homed in
their sockets and in the right sockets (it is suprising how often people
have raid issues all due to plugging thedrives into the wrong SATA sockets).

I would also check the seating of every add in card RAM included - just to
be sure.

If doing changes and checking things doesn't get the bios to recognise the
drives I would then pull one of the drives out and use the HDD manufacurers
disk checking utility (go to their web site for the download) to check one
or other HDD using non-destructive testing inn another machine. I would also
try the HDD as a slave drive in another machine to see if you can read it -
being RAID 1 you should be able to read it as per any normal HDD. If you can
do this then I would do a disc image backup, reformat both discs, recreate
the RAID 1 and restore.

The BIOS error is the clue here - I wouldn't bother trying to fix anything
in windows if the BIOS complains as it seems totally pointless.

HTH
- Tim


<Max> wrote in message news:a3vb329raskc28ruuval77pos3erfvcrre@xxxxxxxxxx
I am wondering if what has happened here is this.

The raid array has become corrupted. This array is on the SATA disks,
not in Windows, and this corruption is preventing Windows seeing them
(or either one of them). If this is the case then I guess the discs
are a write-off, they cannot even be reformatted let alone accessible
to retrieve data.

Is this possible? Or is it too gloomy a scenario...? :-)

Max


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