Accidentally reset my BIOS settings to default, and messed up my RAID, help?

Silly Ducklings · Dec 18, 2014

Okay so i got a new GPU and Geforce Experience was wacking out not detecting the GPU, and someone with a similar problem said that resetting the BIOS to default solved his problem somehow. So being in distress as my $600 component wasn't working, i blindly hit the reset button without thinking twice about it, screwing up my RAID array. So it now shows that i have no bootable drives. I set the SATA mode in the BIOS to RAID, but when i view the RAID volume and go to either of the 2 SSDs i have, the controller is set to AHCI. The status says "RAID member" as well. I'm guessing that if i can change the SATA controller of the SSDs back to RAID it will let me select it as a boot drive...? This is my first build, so any help would be greatly appreciated, because with my internet re-downloading all the crap i had on those SSDs would take at least 4-5 days.

junkeymonkey · Dec 18, 2014

well did you not have to set up the array in the bios ?? you set the controller to raid but you still got to go to the raid set up and reconfigure it as it was before [exactly] and it should boot ????

Silly Ducklings · Dec 18, 2014

junkeymonkey :

Yes, but it says i would have to delete my previous raid volume, won't that delete all my files as well? I'm not entirely sure all the files are there to begin with, but about 80 GB are listed to be used on the current messed up volume, and it seems about right.

I have an Asus Z97-PRO if that helps...

junkeymonkey · Dec 18, 2014

is this a raid 0 ?? I think you will need to for that raid 1 [mirror ] is protected I believe -- raid o [stripe ] is not ...

found this at asus forums just skip the bios flash part and see ??

Flashed bios 0802
Removed all sata cables from board
cleared cmos, shutdown.
installed 850 POro array to sata 1 and sata 2 ports
set raid for controller in bios, array was functional, booted to windows.
back into bios cleared cmos, rebooted set controller to raid, array was functional
stutdown, installed WD array to sata 3 and sata 4, array was functional.
cleared cmos, rebooted set raid in bios, both arrays were functional!!!
Looks like issue has been resolved

http://rog.asus.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-52699.html

Silly Ducklings · Dec 18, 2014

Do i remove the SATA cables while the system is running, then reset the BIOS, then shut down? IDK if pulling the sata cables out like that is a good idea... But whatever works i guess.

And yes it's RAID0

junkeymonkey · Dec 18, 2014

no I woudlassume you turn it off then remove the cables -- and start the prosess ??

see with raid 0 they allways say to use new drives to build the array -- with mirror array its just change out a drive and go -- raid 0 some stuff is on one drive and some on the other so its like 1/2 of what you need to boot is on one drive and the 1/2 on the other-- so if you loose one drive you loose all data from both drives - no recovery .. you should read up on raid 0 and see how it can hurt you more then it helps you - its not for long term or important cant loose data - so when the array is broke its all broke

Silly Ducklings · Dec 18, 2014

Yeah i don't have any actual important data on it, my rig is just for gaming. But there is a LOT of data, and with 5Mbps down i don't really want to lose it. I'll try that and see if it works.

junkeymonkey · Dec 18, 2014

Thus, failure of one disk causes the loss of the entire RAID 0 volume, with reduced possibilities of data recovery when compared to a broken spanned volume. Striping distributes the contents of files roughly equally among all disks in the set, which makes concurrent read or write operations on the multiple disks almost inevitable

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

Silly Ducklings · Dec 18, 2014

Didn't work, still won't show up as a bootable drive. The mode after i reset the BIOS was showing as RAID by default, and the controller on both the SSDs was still listed as AHCI. Guess i'm just gonna have to delete it and start over.

junkeymonkey · Dec 18, 2014

well sorry to here that .. just remember with raid 0 alls at risk at any given time -- as you can read from the link above

USAFRet · Dec 18, 2014

RAID 0 in a desktop/gaming PC is useless.
RAID 0 with SSD's is even more useless.

junkeymonkey · Dec 18, 2014

for me after 3 raid 0 losses I learned [lol] but if you don't try it out and see you don't know or learn lessons ???

I was just reading this from toms

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485-13.html

USAFRet · Dec 18, 2014

junkeymonkey :

I don't need to poke a stick into my eye to know it is going to hurt.

junkeymonkey · Dec 18, 2014

well I was young and dumb at the time , but as I said 3 strikes and it was out

junkeymonkey · Dec 18, 2014

P.S-- that's not to say I'm so smart now [lol]

Silly Ducklings · Dec 18, 2014

OK, deleted it, re-did the whole raid setup process, still can't select it as a boot drive, still says that the SATA controller for each SSD is AHCI, not raid. Will this problem solve itself once i re-install windows 8.1? I hope so...

I've set the sata mode to and from AHCI and RAID at least ten times now, doesn't matter what i do the controller still reads AHCI, and when i set the sata mode to AHCI it lists both of the SSDs as individual bootable drives...?

I really have no clue what to do in this situation. Really need help... ;-;

junkeymonkey · Dec 18, 2014

seems like when installing windows and you get to the hard drive part you them combine the drives ?? them as qwindows loads up it install the windows files for the raid ?? [its been awile but that's how I remember it ]

Silly Ducklings · Dec 18, 2014

junkeymonkey :

Hopefully that's what it is, another 3 hours and i'll know.

junkeymonkey · Dec 18, 2014

3 hrs ?? cant be that slow ?? my last windows 7 install took I don't know maybe 10 min. to got to desk top ???

http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/47565-setting-up-raid-0-installing-win7.html

I have to go in 10 min .. so i'll check back in the A.M

Silly Ducklings · Dec 18, 2014

junkeymonkey :

It's windows 8.1, and i have to download it as i don't have an optical drive.

The download is the long part, everything else is more or less pretty quick.

USAFRet · Dec 18, 2014

Silly Ducklings :

junkeymonkey :

It's windows 8.1, and i have to download it as i don't have an optical drive.

The download is the long part, everything else is more or less pretty quick.

'download', from where?

junkeymonkey · Dec 18, 2014

I'm a firm believer in just buying the full retail disk -- and be dun with it

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