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Last night I attempted to fix my Intel Rapid Storage by changing something in the bios. I only changed one or two things and it seemed to work and then everything failed. my computer spent hours doing the checkdsk "moving orphaned files" thing and then I finally got back on my computer again.
Before I was running a 60gb SSD that Windows is on, and two 1tb haddrives for my D: drive
Somehow my D drive is empty now and says NTFS, and I now have an F drive with all the data from my computer and is functioning normally, but there is still a whole harddrive missing. The goal was to have it in Raid1 so one harddrive would be mirrored but I dont think that ever worked. I did not set up this computer.
any help or insights would be very greatly appreciated
Before I was running a 60gb SSD that Windows is on, and two 1tb haddrives for my D: drive
Somehow my D drive is empty now and says NTFS, and I now have an F drive with all the data from my computer and is functioning normally, but there is still a whole harddrive missing. The goal was to have it in Raid1 so one harddrive would be mirrored but I dont think that ever worked. I did not set up this computer.
any help or insights would be very greatly appreciated
EVGAndy said:
I forgot about this thread for a bit and thought Id just provide an ending. I ended up formatting all three drives (SSD and 2 harddrives) and did a fresh install of win7. I now have access to both harddrives so everything worked out perfectly, it just took a good deal of effort and worry : ) thank you all who provided assistance Excellent. Glad everything worked out.
EVGAndy
February 16, 2014 10:38:47 AM
I forgot about this thread for a bit and thought Id just provide an ending. I ended up formatting all three drives (SSD and 2 harddrives) and did a fresh install of win7. I now have access to both harddrives so everything worked out perfectly, it just took a good deal of effort and worry : ) thank you all who provided assistance
EVGAndy
February 15, 2014 11:27:31 AM
EVGAndy
February 15, 2014 11:22:11 AM
EVGAndy said:
thank you very much for the response. So right click-->format both of the drives? Is that the best way to do that? And will that make my D
rive which says NTSF usable again as just another drive to utilize?When I click on the D drive and go to properties, it says there is 0 free OR used bytes
That concept should work. It cannot hurt to try, because it is unsable as it is.
Worst case, you still have 0 free.
Best case (probable) you have that drive back and can use it as normal.
EVGAndy
February 15, 2014 9:57:29 AM
The system still thinks the 1TB D is part of an array.
What I would do?
Be sure you have a verified copy of any critical data that used to exist on the former F-D array. Saved elsewhere and offline
Completely reformat the D, and probably the F.
Now you have 3 distinct drives: 60GB SSD, and 2 each 1TB drives
And....your SSD is very very close to being too full. I'd remove some stuff from that.
What I would do?
Be sure you have a verified copy of any critical data that used to exist on the former F-D array. Saved elsewhere and offline
Completely reformat the D, and probably the F.
Now you have 3 distinct drives: 60GB SSD, and 2 each 1TB drives
And....your SSD is very very close to being too full. I'd remove some stuff from that.
EVGAndy
February 15, 2014 9:33:03 AM
Ok Ive attached a picture of my current drives. What Im curious about is why my "D" drive is no longer accessible and says NTFS. My F drive is working fine but with out the D drive Im missing out on a whole TB of harddrive space. hope this makes sense, thank you very much all for the responses so far
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to elaborate further, before last night my harddrive was my D drive but I was still missing the other TB of space. I tried to fix it in BIOS and re-setup RAID, and my harddrive became my F drive, the D drive says NTFS, and I still dont know how to access the other TB harddrive. my computer detects it but its not available. I cant post BIOS pictures if needed
At this point I do not care about RAID, I just want to be able to make use of the second harddrive
Im thinking about wiping both harddrives clean, and reinstalling windows7 on the SSD to start completely fresh. things seem really corrupted and not working properly on the harddrives.


to elaborate further, before last night my harddrive was my D drive but I was still missing the other TB of space. I tried to fix it in BIOS and re-setup RAID, and my harddrive became my F drive, the D drive says NTFS, and I still dont know how to access the other TB harddrive. my computer detects it but its not available. I cant post BIOS pictures if needed
At this point I do not care about RAID, I just want to be able to make use of the second harddrive
Im thinking about wiping both harddrives clean, and reinstalling windows7 on the SSD to start completely fresh. things seem really corrupted and not working properly on the harddrives.
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