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The spare hard drive works over sata so it's not a bad sata cable/port. I'm going to just format the original drive over USB and hopefully that should knock lose any of these RAID shenanigans and then put the data back on after if the drive is recognized.
 
WilliamM2 said:
No Intel chipsets have Asmedia sata connectors integrated in them. Some motherboard makers add third party sata ports, but that goes for all chipsets, P67, Z77, Z87, etc.
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I was going by my board, the MSI Z77 GD65. The bottom two Sat 3 ports are controlled by Asmedia and if I don't install the Asmedia driver then any drive I install on those connectors will not show up.
 
stuckinasquare3 said:
Where does a hard drive store the fact that it's part of raid?
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That depends on the RAID implementation. The "fact" is called "array metadata". Location and format does differ from vendor to vendor and even between versions from same vendor.

Your new board has RAID mode enabled on the SATA ports, doesn't it? Mac, USB, etc are not "clever enough" to look for metadata. Thus, they skip it and proceed to partition table. Windows+fakeRAID finds something, and happily proceeds to look from a wrong place (besides, RAID0 means striping, so expected data would be interleaved over two 750GB disks).


I would take a Live Linux distro rescue image that I'm familiar with, boot with it, and use command line tools to hammer sense into the disk (i.e. "wipe the crap out").
 
My new board does NOT have RAID mode enabled for SATA (AHCI is what it's set to).

What is fakeRAID? What is the distro you are referring to?
 
Well I'm running out of ideas. I put DBAN on a flash drive and have it currently wiping the disk. I'll check on it when I get home but if it doesn't work, I'm completely lost.
 
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