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January 25, 2014 7:45:05 AM

I had a 2 drive raid 0 setup with a storage drive. all three drives sata. I backed up all of my data to the storage drive. I removed all 3 drives, and reinstalled Win7 to a SSD. Now, when I plug back in the storage drive, windows detects it as unallocated space. I am hoping the data is not lost and I am missing something simple.
I would have had to change BIOS settings for SATA from RAID to AHCI, I'm not sure if any other settings might have been changed which could lead to this situation.
thanks,

edit: fear of lost data made me re-hook up the drives as they were, 2 drive raid 0 + storage drive and no SSD, and everything boots up and is seen fine. the storage drive is accessible and shows all the data.

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a c 265 G Storage
January 25, 2014 8:36:11 AM

Can you issue it a drive letter without formatting it ?
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January 25, 2014 9:39:23 AM

On the new installation of Windows, the drive does not show up with a letter. I can open Disk Management and it shows the drive, but immediately pops up a window saying 'you must initialize a disk before you can access it'. Then it gives choices of choosing MGR or GPT.
Perhaps all I need to do is choose one of the two options, but I had read elsewhere that choosing to 'initialize' a disk is the equivalent to erasing what is on it. So I did not proceed with that process and went to google and then here.
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a c 265 G Storage
January 25, 2014 9:59:00 AM

vexexer said:
On the new installation of Windows, the drive does not show up with a letter. I can open Disk Management and it shows the drive, but immediately pops up a window saying 'you must initialize a disk before you can access it'. Then it gives choices of choosing MGR or GPT.
Perhaps all I need to do is choose one of the two options, but I had read elsewhere that choosing to 'initialize' a disk is the equivalent to erasing what is on it. So I did not proceed with that process and went to google and then here.


That will format the drive and delete all data! Not sure what to do since I have never run into this issue with data drives.
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