Hard drive in Raid 0 die?

[mlah384]

My friend is having problems with his computer not booting up. He has a i7 OC'd, 6gb ddr3, asus mobo and 2 samsung hd's in raid 0. (im not sure which exact ones, i'll have to get that from him later). He said he shut down his computer as normal and the next day when he tried to turn it on, it made 4 beep sounds then he got a message that the system was returning to fail safe settings and then he got the "disk not recognized" message on screen. He's had this thing overclocked for months with no problems, and it wasnt event that high of an over clock. (Like 3ghz). Does that sound like one of the hard drives in the Raid 0 failed? How would you diagnose and test each hard drive to see if it is good or not?

Thanks

 

[tomt4535]

It is possible that resetting the bios to fail safe settings took away the raid configuration settings. It is probably set on IDE or AHCI right now, just set it back to RAID and see if it recognizes the drives again. It may just recognize the array again and be fine, but ymmv because all boards and array controllers are different.

 

[mlah384]

He told me he went into BIOS and set it back to Raid but it still would not boot up. How do you test to see if the drives are good? Would you just disconnect them and try a 3rd drive and see if windows boot disc will format it and install windows? or is there a procedure you can do to test drives in a raid 0 to see if they are faulty or not?

Thanks

 

[RebateMonger]

If all you want to do is test the drives, you can use most any of the disk makers' diagnostic boot CDs.