Reboot and select proper boot device? help

marshy203 · Dec 8, 2013

i just bought a new pc and it has 2 ssd's in raid 0

it has windows 8 already installed on these drives, before i bought it the guy showed it me working and there were no problems. i then took it home in the car and am now getting this problem.

my guess is either cables have come loose or the bios has reset and so there is no raid??

i checked the cables and they seem ok, so im not sure what to do, any help is appreciated.

quilciri · Dec 8, 2013

Do you have a CD in the drive or flash drive inserted?

marshy203 · Dec 8, 2013

marshy203 · Dec 8, 2013

i dont have a copy of windows

quilciri · Dec 9, 2013

press delete or whatever button your PC calls for as it boots to go into the bios so you can check to see if youd SSD's are still recognized as a raid array.

marshy203 · Dec 9, 2013

where will it say whether it is in raid or not, what will it say

marshy203 · Dec 9, 2013

ive been in the bios and tried booting from all of the drives, they all say the same? if i reset cmos would i still have the os on one of the ssds?

marshy203 · Dec 9, 2013

i have unplugged both of the ssds and plugged them back in and i now only have 2 boot options when selecting the order in the bios

quilciri · Dec 9, 2013

Raid 0 is striped, the data is spread between both drives. You will need both drives connected in order for your system to work.

Assuming you have an optical drive, 2 boot options is correct. one for the system drive (your raid0 ssd's) and one for the optical drive.

General practice is to set the optical drive as the first boot option.

marshy203 · Dec 9, 2013

but i also have a hdd, shouldnt that show up

marshy203 · Dec 9, 2013

quilciri :

If i set the optical drive as first boot, then it wont be able to find windows 8 on my ssds?? im worried as i spent alot of money on this, whats the worst it could be?? ssds broke?

quilciri · Dec 9, 2013

Ah, didn't know you also had a HDD, that wasn't in earlier info. Yes that should be showing up.

What you are setting is a boot hierarchy. If the system cannot boot from the first option, then it looks to the second option. The optical drive is the first boot option in most systems; in case you ever need to boot from a CD.

quilciri · Dec 9, 2013

While it's possible an SSD failed, it's more likely that one drive simply fell out of the raid array.

Check what vendor's bios you have and google setting up raid with your bios. Make sure the raid controller is enabled in your BIOS.

One thing, make sure to use a re-establishing the array option. DO NOT CHOOSE REBUILD THE ARRAY

marshy203 · Dec 9, 2013

quilciri :

i think i may have to format my ssd's in another computer and then put them back in and just get another copy of an operating system, only solution i can think of, ive tried booting from every drive.
thank you for your help anyway

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