Intel RST RAID issues - My RAID is gone sorta

[Baynard]

I went to RAID since I thought it would safe guard my data but my windows install burped and the BIOS was toggled back to default after a CMOS reset and much pain getting windows to run. I have a Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UDH3 with 4 drives in RAID 0 pairs.

I can see two of the drives in file explorer but not the other two. I think I'm looking at one drive from each of the RAIDs based on the data present. The Intel Rapid Storage shows they are a pair and both are working.

In disk management it show two disks that need to be initialized with a MBR or GPT. It also shows those disks as unallocated.

I changed BIOS to how it should be but that made it worse so I put the settings all back to AHCI over RAID.


Any idea how I can get this back to normal and not lose the data that I can see now.

Regards

Matthew

 

[alzan]

edit: on boot after POST can you start the Intel RAID utility? If you can get into the utility it will tell you if the drives you're seeing are part of a pair.

Also, if you're trying to safeguard your data RAID 0 is the absolute wrong setup; for minimal safeguard (redundancy) you want RAID 1. And any level of RAID is NOT a safeguard, you still need a backup solution.

If it were me, with your current hardware I would return all four drives to being as "fresh from the factory" condition as possible. Then take two of the drives and set them up as a RAID 1 array. Use one of the two remaining drives (mounted in an external enclosure) as a backup solution and keep the remaining drive as a swappable drive for the situation where one of the drives in the RAID 1 array dies.