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RamonC

RamonC

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After Windows 7 Ultimate re-installation
I can't get my striped disk configuration working. In Disk Management it shows as striped and dynamic also the capacity is right
but the status says Failed. The disk(s) contain important data which I would like to keep. HELP ME PLEASE!

I've tried a lot but I can't enter the Bios for some reason.
My configuration: W7 Ultimate, ASUS P6X58D Premium motherboard
with Seagate 4 SATA II 1.5 TB disks and 1 WD 500 GB system disk.
 
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popatim
if any drive in a raid0 fails then everything is lost. Theres still a possibilty the drive is not defective, unless you know different already. Run diagnostics on the drive or at least check the smart status. Sometimes a complete power-off restart allows the drives to resync. It it does your first goal is to run an immediate backup.
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How many and which disks are in the stripe? you are not clear on that. With 4 drives you could have two stripped pairs, one 4drive striped set (non-redundant), one 3drive redundant stripe with hotspare, or one 4drive redundant stripe w/o hotspare

How were the stripes created? Windows, intel raid utility, Raid bios utility?

Post a pic of your disk management screen as well as relevant RST screens please.
 
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Hi, sorry not to be complete: I had 2 disks in a striped (raid0) config. The other 2 just as single disks. The thing is I don't remember for sure what I used for the RAID config. I remember the Marvell to be unstable so probably did not use that. The Widows (software raid) worked well but it might be as well that I used the settings in the Bios. But I can enter the set-up but not the basic BIOS screen as I remember it.
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Another spooky side effect I have is that I have a harddrive I don't know, might be a virtual but nothing indicates that.
Thanks for your time!
I don't seem to succeed to attach a picture, URL?
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if any drive in a raid0 fails then everything is lost. Theres still a possibilty the drive is not defective, unless you know different already. Run diagnostics on the drive or at least check the smart status. Sometimes a complete power-off restart allows the drives to resync. It it does your first goal is to run an immediate backup.
 
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Hi Popatim, the problem is that I can't run any diagnostic, or I don't know how.
Chkdsk works only on my primary disk, an IDE. How would you run the diagnostic?
Did you see the screen dump? It is all there, isn't it?
 
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