This is a real predicament, and I hope that someone on here can please help.
I've had two HDDs working for a couple months working in a RAID 1, and it's been great for mass storage (my OS is on an SSD). Then I added a new SATA device (optical drive), which caused one of the HDDs in the RAID to disappear. It turned out that moving the new device to a different SATA plug fixed that problem. After the second HDD reappeared, the RAID's status both at post and within IRST in Windows 8.1 Pro was marked as "Degraded."
Within 10 seconds of starting to rebuild the RAID, the OS froze entirely. I reset the computer. At post the RAID's status is now marked as "Rebuild." But as soon as post completes to the point where the OS would normally start to boot, all I get is a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left.
This is terrible! I can't use this computer at all anymore.
I've tried all of the following with no luck: * resetting the BIOS back to factory settings, *unplugging the drives, *plugging them back in, *trying to set the SATA settings in BIOS to AHCI, disconnecting the optical drive, and letting the black screen sit for up to 30 minutes.
Please help!
I've had two HDDs working for a couple months working in a RAID 1, and it's been great for mass storage (my OS is on an SSD). Then I added a new SATA device (optical drive), which caused one of the HDDs in the RAID to disappear. It turned out that moving the new device to a different SATA plug fixed that problem. After the second HDD reappeared, the RAID's status both at post and within IRST in Windows 8.1 Pro was marked as "Degraded."
Within 10 seconds of starting to rebuild the RAID, the OS froze entirely. I reset the computer. At post the RAID's status is now marked as "Rebuild." But as soon as post completes to the point where the OS would normally start to boot, all I get is a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left.
This is terrible! I can't use this computer at all anymore.
I've tried all of the following with no luck: * resetting the BIOS back to factory settings, *unplugging the drives, *plugging them back in, *trying to set the SATA settings in BIOS to AHCI, disconnecting the optical drive, and letting the black screen sit for up to 30 minutes.
Please help!