Asrock Extreme4 Z87 RAID 0 recovery ? Am I fuct ???

[Mfusick]

OK.. I might really have fuct up. My desktop started acting strange, with very slow boot ups. Even the first Bios screen had like a 40 second delay. The PC in general was acting weird, and my RST Intel program kept warning me, but nothing seemed to be wrong.

Anyways, I decided to upgrade my OS to a new OS drive which has been on my list of things to do. First I updated my BIOS to the newest version thinking that the BIOS update would fix the boot up lag. It did not.

But now after re-install not only do I have slow boot up, but my RAID drive is gone

I was using fake raid on Z87 to RAID. Something is wrong. I have data on that drive I need to recover.

Anyone know a good way to rebuild this array or save the data from these three drives? HELP!

That is my immediate problem. The second problem is figuring out why my mobo and system boot so slow. It boots slow with two different OS drives on different ports. I boots slow with the RAID not hooked up or hooked up. Something funny going on with my mobo I think.

 

[Railgun]

You don't rebuild a stripe. Why in the hell would you not have some other means of storage? A 9TB stripe presumably means you have a ton of data on it. And looking at your screenshots, that IS your storage. WhyTF would you use a stripe for that...

In short, you're boned.

 

[jimpz]

Railgun is probably right, but from working w/ Raid hardware years ago, you *MIGHT* (and I emphasize the MIGHT) be able to recover the data IF you put the OLD bios back & recreate the raid EXACTLY as it was before.
AND reread Railguns last line when you are making a raid again.

 

[Sunburn74]

The issue isn't the raid but a failing drive. On my bios, I have 40 second delays too between the first page to the raid page whenever I plug in a dead sata drive (usually a separate drive from my RAID array). When I remove the drive, booting is normal. The same actually happened as well when my dvd drive died.

Usually simply flashing a new bios won't destroy your raid array. As you can see it was indeed recognized as well; just some component on it failed (again likely a hard drive someplace)

 

[you2]

Test the drives in another machine - to see if they are functional (do not write to them). If the drive is dead; then yes you have lost your raid that is the nature of raid 0. You want raid 1 or raid 5 if you wish to be able to recover from a failed disk. What I normally do (to test a drive) is use badblock (unix/linux/freebsd) command (non-destrective read only if i care about the data (for new drives I use write mode). I'm not sure if you have a spare machine if you don't you can always boot from a usb drive (i have ubuntu burned to a 8GB stick; but any USB stick with 1GB or more will work - i think offiically they recommend 2GB).
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Since this is raid 0 - whatever you do - do not write to the disk outside the raid configuraiton.