HELP!! - RAID 5 went down on P9X79 WS

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Epoxium

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Please Help:

I was making some adjustments to my BIOS, and had some issues so I reset to defaults, what I did not realize is this dropped the SATA RAID configuration and put it back to default, I booted and of course had a boat load of problems, I immediately realized what I had done, however after switching back to the BIOS and changing to RAID mode, the previous raid configuration in the controller is missing 2 drives, it says they are not part of the raid and it fails. what do I do? I don't want to try anything else really cuz I am afraid I will make it worse.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HELP!

System:
MOBO: P9X79 WS
CUP: Xeon E5-1620V2
RAM: 32 GB
Storage: RAID 1, 2x 256 GB SSD's & RAID 5, 4x 2TB Spinners
 
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Epoxium - have you found a backup solution yet?
This should have been an expected event and you should have been prepared for it. All drives fail and all raid arrays are considered to be one drive. Backups are always needed if you want to survive drive failure.

At worst this should have just been an inconvenience, not 'Complete Disaster'. Please find a backup solution that works for you and use it.
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Epoxium

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So update: my primary raid was also affected, windows freaked out, said that it had been altered in some way, did self checks on a reboot, then Started blue screening. Safe mode also blue screens. I'm hosed arnt I?
 
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Epoxium

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Nope, the controller would not let me edit the existing raid drives on create new, or delete existing ones. I ended up having to redo both RAID's and reinstalling windows. complete disaster.
 
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Epoxium - have you found a backup solution yet?
This should have been an expected event and you should have been prepared for it. All drives fail and all raid arrays are considered to be one drive. Backups are always needed if you want to survive drive failure.

At worst this should have just been an inconvenience, not 'Complete Disaster'. Please find a backup solution that works for you and use it.
 
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