- Jul 6, 2012
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I'm running Intel RAID 0 on two SSDs with Windows 7 installed. It's been working great for a couple years now. I also have two HDD non-RAID storage drives and an additional non-RAID SSD on the Marvell controller for my games.
While using the PC today, I heard the "duh-dunk" of a drive being removed. I noticed my non-RAID SSD for my games was no longer visible. I restarted the PC and now I get the "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" message. I checked in BIOS and both RAID 0 drives are healthy, as are the storage drives, but I cannot see my other SSD. I removed it, tried to connect it externally to another system, and it's not getting recognized. So I assume this SSD is dead. It's fine, there was no important data on it. But now that it's removed from my system, I cannot get Windows to boot on my RAID 0 drives. All my BIOS settings appear the same, i.e., boot device for RAID 0 is 1st priority, RAID mode selected, IRST says the RAID is normal and bootable, etc.
When I set up the RAID 0 array, I initially wanted all three drives in RAID 0, but because one is on a Marvell controller, this wouldn't work. So I just used the two that are still currently working. What would cause my RAID 0 boot to fail just from removing a non-RAID drive from the system? It wasn't even on the same controller.
I keep backups of all my data, but my last backup was about a week ago, so I'd like to recover my existing system if possible. Thanks for any insight anyone can provide!
While using the PC today, I heard the "duh-dunk" of a drive being removed. I noticed my non-RAID SSD for my games was no longer visible. I restarted the PC and now I get the "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" message. I checked in BIOS and both RAID 0 drives are healthy, as are the storage drives, but I cannot see my other SSD. I removed it, tried to connect it externally to another system, and it's not getting recognized. So I assume this SSD is dead. It's fine, there was no important data on it. But now that it's removed from my system, I cannot get Windows to boot on my RAID 0 drives. All my BIOS settings appear the same, i.e., boot device for RAID 0 is 1st priority, RAID mode selected, IRST says the RAID is normal and bootable, etc.
When I set up the RAID 0 array, I initially wanted all three drives in RAID 0, but because one is on a Marvell controller, this wouldn't work. So I just used the two that are still currently working. What would cause my RAID 0 boot to fail just from removing a non-RAID drive from the system? It wasn't even on the same controller.
I keep backups of all my data, but my last backup was about a week ago, so I'd like to recover my existing system if possible. Thanks for any insight anyone can provide!
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