Hello,
This is my first first post on this site so let me quickly introduce myself..
I'm Jelle and I like to call myself a pc enthousiast but would like to become an expert eventually,
but right now I need your assistance as I cannot figure out below issue myself
Testdisk
Intel RST
(note to testdisk screenshot --> running a analyse again on my (EFI partition) system again ,because of a crash during gaming yesterday,
which looks way different than the screenshot but the scan is not complete yet so I will post it afterwards.
System:
Asus P8Z68-V Pro
Intel I7 2600k
16GB Ram
500GB SSD
4*2TB HDD --> Raid array
4TB HDD (Backup)
The failed array is a result of changing my pc setup. (watercooling my pc and overclocking my system)
After a incorrect setting in the EFI Bios I had to clear CMOS, resulting in losing all settings.
Didn't think about my raid array at that time.
The Raid array was failed and showed 2/4 disks as non-raid:
What I've done in the meantime:
- Deleted and recreated the Raid array in the BIOS and is stated as 'OK' again
(the disks are plugged into the motherboard on the same sata ports as best to my knowledge because I did write it down before starting with the WC & OC.
- Installed Inter RST (see screenshot)
- tried to recover the partition using Testdisk, that was unsuccessfull. I am however able to access my files using testdisk, my whole data structure still seems to be intact.
Now as I do have a backup of the array(The 4TB disk), I like to restore the array to it's former 'glory' without deleting everyting first and recreating the array, copying 3.5TB of data back.
Almost all my data is backed up to my backup drive except for some downloads on the Raid-array, thus not very important.
Thus my question is as following:
How do I restore my raid array properly?
Please also have a look at a few screeshots I will add to get a better grasp of what's going on in my system.
Most of all I want to learn how to properly correct a mistake like this.
And yes, I know, I should use a raid card, but this was the free alternative at the time.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Jelle
This is my first first post on this site so let me quickly introduce myself..
I'm Jelle and I like to call myself a pc enthousiast but would like to become an expert eventually,
but right now I need your assistance as I cannot figure out below issue myself
Testdisk
Intel RST
(note to testdisk screenshot --> running a analyse again on my (EFI partition) system again ,because of a crash during gaming yesterday,
which looks way different than the screenshot but the scan is not complete yet so I will post it afterwards.
System:
Asus P8Z68-V Pro
Intel I7 2600k
16GB Ram
500GB SSD
4*2TB HDD --> Raid array
4TB HDD (Backup)
The failed array is a result of changing my pc setup. (watercooling my pc and overclocking my system)
After a incorrect setting in the EFI Bios I had to clear CMOS, resulting in losing all settings.
Didn't think about my raid array at that time.
The Raid array was failed and showed 2/4 disks as non-raid:
What I've done in the meantime:
- Deleted and recreated the Raid array in the BIOS and is stated as 'OK' again
(the disks are plugged into the motherboard on the same sata ports as best to my knowledge because I did write it down before starting with the WC & OC.
- Installed Inter RST (see screenshot)
- tried to recover the partition using Testdisk, that was unsuccessfull. I am however able to access my files using testdisk, my whole data structure still seems to be intact.
Now as I do have a backup of the array(The 4TB disk), I like to restore the array to it's former 'glory' without deleting everyting first and recreating the array, copying 3.5TB of data back.
Almost all my data is backed up to my backup drive except for some downloads on the Raid-array, thus not very important.
Thus my question is as following:
How do I restore my raid array properly?
Please also have a look at a few screeshots I will add to get a better grasp of what's going on in my system.
Most of all I want to learn how to properly correct a mistake like this.
And yes, I know, I should use a raid card, but this was the free alternative at the time.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Jelle
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