I recently had a crash that resulted in the BIOS popping up during the subsequent boot. It loaded defaults and continued into Windows.
Once booted up, I noticed that my RAID array was missing. So I shut down and went back into the BIOS and noticed that the SATA mode had switched from RAID to AHCI.
When I switched it back to RAID, only one of the drives showed up as a RAID member - the other was unformatted. I could not figure out how to re-join the two drives and had to format them and re-join them.
So the auto-switch to defaults erased all the data on the RAID array. I can't believe the BIOS allows this to happen - this is a horrible software design error...
If this happens again, how do I re-link the drives into the RAID array without erasing them?
Thanks in advance,
rgames
Once booted up, I noticed that my RAID array was missing. So I shut down and went back into the BIOS and noticed that the SATA mode had switched from RAID to AHCI.
When I switched it back to RAID, only one of the drives showed up as a RAID member - the other was unformatted. I could not figure out how to re-join the two drives and had to format them and re-join them.
So the auto-switch to defaults erased all the data on the RAID array. I can't believe the BIOS allows this to happen - this is a horrible software design error...
If this happens again, how do I re-link the drives into the RAID array without erasing them?
Thanks in advance,
rgames
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