Raid 0 not working after boot with one of the drives being unplugged and plugged back in

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Hi, so I've been trying to find an answer to my specific problem but have been unsuccessful so far.

I have a system with 2 2tb HDD's in Raid 1 on my jmicron sata chipset and then 2 240gig ssd's in Raid 0 on my intel sata chipset.

I went to upgrade my power supply and knocked loose one of the sata cables on my board and didn't notice it.

When I went to boot - it couldn't find the OS (on the Raid 0)

Powered down, identified the problem and to be sure unplugged and replugged in all the devices.

On repeat boot, neither raid array was working. I realized I plugged the drives into the opposite ports (i.e. Raid 1 array into the intel chipset and Raid 0 into Jmicron)

Fixed that and on repeat boot, I was notified by the jmicron driver that I should repair the Raid 1 array, but the Raid 0 array wasn't found still and the OS wouldn't boot.

So last night I started the repair process on the Raid 1 array, but I'm not sure what to do about the Raid 0 array.

Is there a way to recover the Raid 0 - as the system has never booted since the initial problem nothing should have been written to either drive so they should still be able to be paired again without data loss I would think?

Any ideas would be very much appreciated
 
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You may need to go back into the RAID BIOS on the INTEL controller and re-establish the array. Dont do anything else, just put them back into the striped configuration as they were before. If the data has not been corrupted, it will re-establish the RAID 0 array just like it was. Of course, make sure all RAID settings in the regular BIOS are set correctly as well, they may have defaulted to standard SATA settings too
You may need to go back into the RAID BIOS on the INTEL controller and re-establish the array. Dont do anything else, just put them back into the striped configuration as they were before. If the data has not been corrupted, it will re-establish the RAID 0 array just like it was. Of course, make sure all RAID settings in the regular BIOS are set correctly as well, they may have defaulted to standard SATA settings too
 
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