P8P67 Marvell Raid 0 unconfigured after clearing CMOS

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Hi,

I followed instruction of vendor support advising to clear CMOS on my Asus P8P67 DELUXE.
And as a result I lost my RAID 0 !!! I got VERY important work on my 2 HDD in RAID 0.

I can still use my SSD (my boot disk with OS) but i lost my other drive (the 2 Hdd in raid 0).

It's a Raid 0 on the Marvell controller (on ship controller)
at boot time it's showing "unconfigured" for both drive.

I've read a lot about get raid back up after clearing CMOS, but nothing seems to match my situation : /-

If I get to the Marvell Bios setup (Ctrl+m) all I can do is:
-erase raid on each disk (don't want that)
-lauch the wizard for virtual disk creation. (could be the solution, but!!)

for some reason, the wizard won't let me change the QUICK INIT option, it's ON and I can't turn it off. I really scared that this init might just erase the former raid 0 setup, and I would loose my data.

In the Bios (asus) there's not much to do about this (I think), I can only switch sata between RAID, IDE, AHCI, DISABLE. I don't want Raid, as I boot on SSD. And I think it was on AHCI when everything was working. And it's with AHCI that I can boot on windows on SSD.

Other than that, there's the ONBOARD option, where I can DISABLE or ENABLE the MNarvell controller... and that it !

So, HOW can I get My RAID 0 configured again ? without losing my DATA ????

All I did was clearing CMOS, so the disk should still be untouched, and hopefully there's a mysterious way to get them back !


Please help, I'm desperate ! I can't work, I can't do anything ! I got 2 years of hard graphic work, work in progress on those 2 drives !!

Oh and I know I should have a backup, so please spare me the "you should have backups"


thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

6ril.
 
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I'm assuming you lost your raid by clearing your cmos but that wouldn't make since if you originally created it by ctrl+m. In bios you want ahci for your ssd and ctrl+m to re-create your raid. Clearing cmos should not have broken your array, but regardless to get it back you will need to lauch the wizard for virtual disk creation, add you 2 disks and that should be it. Good luck!
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I'm assuming you lost your raid by clearing your cmos but that wouldn't make since if you originally created it by ctrl+m. In bios you want ahci for your ssd and ctrl+m to re-create your raid. Clearing cmos should not have broken your array, but regardless to get it back you will need to lauch the wizard for virtual disk creation, add you 2 disks and that should be it. Good luck!
 
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reedo, thanks for answering.

As i wrote before, the wizard is not letting me change the QUICK INIT option. So I fear this INIT might do me some wrong (overwritting stuff on the disks that contain my former setup)
I don't want to simply use the wizard because I read someone describing a solution to a similar situation, but he wrote something like "MAKE SURE to uncheck the QUICK INIT option"

So not beeing able to uncheck it (it's on YES I think, and in ghost) seems VERY DANGEROUS for my data : /-
 
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I'm reading soooo much thing about similar situation, and it's not really helping. Some say it's lost other say it just need to be setup up again...

I've read step by step but for intel controller, not Marvell (with testdisk) seems very complex to me : /-

also, there's a software alled MRU (marvell Raid utility), I've tried to install it, but it's browser based, and it's showing me nothing : /-

Is there a marvell pro somewhere ? Marvell doesn't even consider end users support !!!!!! that's just crazy !

How come I only have 2 option in the marvell bios ?? when others seems to have more ... should I update my marvell bios? ?? I'm scared it might make things even harder : /

I'm so stuck. It's depressing... ain't got the cash for backups, and I fear it's going to cost me my job (freelance graphic job in progress, all data on the missing raid 0 )
 
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I think with the marvell bios (it was 2 years ago, but I think that's how)

how would it make a difference?

I can't see how it would have been done in Bios (at least in my bios)
 
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Hey buddy, I would hate to steer you in the wrong direction. The bottom line is you won't get your data back until you re-create the raid. Without knowing how you did it in the first place, I am at a diss-advantage. The only way you would have lost the marvell array would be if you went into ctrl+m and deleted it which I don't think you did. If it was set up in bios, clearing it would have killed your array. Your have 2 raid chipsets. Marvell ctrl+m and intel ich10r in bios. I believe you are missing something in your bios. Here is a link to your manual.

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8P67_DELUXE/HelpDesk_Manual/
 
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ok, thanks you reedo_43 for trying to help.

I dig a little more, no solution yet, but it confirmed that my bios sata needs to be in AHCI for my marvell raid to work. So the solution isn't to switch bios in raid mode. That would have been easy, too easy.


So again, is there anyone with some marvell experience?

 
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no help so far : /-

maybe now ? as the situation is changed:

I've install marvell MSU to see if it could help, and as soon as it started it initialized the 2 disks !!!!
That's what i was trying to avoid all this time... well..

So I decided to ctrl+m and use the wizard...

now at boot time both disks appear as configured, and in win7 they appear in the disk manager as one disk.

So the raid 0 is there, but I still don't have access to the data.
disk manager wants to initialize the disk, but I read that this will prevent me from accessing my data !!!! I can't do that !

"Windows offers the "initialize" function only if no (valid) patittion table was found. the Initialize command creates a new partition table with new partitions. So all data will be lost when you do this."

Is there another way?

Please HELP !
 
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I got my data back, after 3 days of stress and worries...

It took 5 minutes with testdisk.

everything back to how it was before clearing CMOS.

Merci beaucoup a : Christophe Grenier pour testdisk!
 
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