System:
Gigabyte n680sli-dq6 (latest bios)
Intel QX6700
2gb OCZ ram
8800gtx
6 maxtor 500gb HDs (SATA)
1 Hitachi 400gb HD (IDE)
Liteon dvd burner
M-audio delta LT1010
hard drive setup:
5 500gb drives on nvraid controller as a raid 5
1 500gb on gigabyte raid controller
Hitachi and DVD on IDE with HD set as master
Ok I setup this system in a way to make a wipe out of xp easy as possible. My Documents sat on the raid 5 array and everything of use was in one way or another saved on the 'media drive' (raid 5).
At first I forgot about the issues with windows xp and vista when installing on a computer with multiple drives... The first reinstall resulted in a hal.dll (after copying files over) error which I resolved by pulling all non-essential drives... This happened the last time I installed xp.
Anyways once I got into windows I installed the chipset drivers and shut down. I put all the drives back on the nvraid and booted... Windows did not properly recognize the array and instead of listing it as 1.8tb it showed 465gb and 1.3tb unallocated... The nvraid still showed the array as healthy... The nvidia control panel would crash when I tried to open it...
I reinstalled once again and this time it shows the array as what it should be but says the disk needs to be initialized. Moreover the array is shown as degraded in the nvraid bios. In the nvraid bios it shows the 4 drives in the array and a healthy drive. When I try to rebuild in the nvbios I get the error message along the lines of 'this disk is too small for the array'.
I am at a loss here... I really dont want to lose the 700+gb of data on that array...
Has anyone seen this type of error before? Is there a utility that will allow me to initialize the array without blowing up the data? Is there a program that can read arrays and extract the data given the circumstances?
Thanks
Aneil
Gigabyte n680sli-dq6 (latest bios)
Intel QX6700
2gb OCZ ram
8800gtx
6 maxtor 500gb HDs (SATA)
1 Hitachi 400gb HD (IDE)
Liteon dvd burner
M-audio delta LT1010
hard drive setup:
5 500gb drives on nvraid controller as a raid 5
1 500gb on gigabyte raid controller
Hitachi and DVD on IDE with HD set as master
Ok I setup this system in a way to make a wipe out of xp easy as possible. My Documents sat on the raid 5 array and everything of use was in one way or another saved on the 'media drive' (raid 5).
At first I forgot about the issues with windows xp and vista when installing on a computer with multiple drives... The first reinstall resulted in a hal.dll (after copying files over) error which I resolved by pulling all non-essential drives... This happened the last time I installed xp.
Anyways once I got into windows I installed the chipset drivers and shut down. I put all the drives back on the nvraid and booted... Windows did not properly recognize the array and instead of listing it as 1.8tb it showed 465gb and 1.3tb unallocated... The nvraid still showed the array as healthy... The nvidia control panel would crash when I tried to open it...
I reinstalled once again and this time it shows the array as what it should be but says the disk needs to be initialized. Moreover the array is shown as degraded in the nvraid bios. In the nvraid bios it shows the 4 drives in the array and a healthy drive. When I try to rebuild in the nvbios I get the error message along the lines of 'this disk is too small for the array'.
I am at a loss here... I really dont want to lose the 700+gb of data on that array...
Has anyone seen this type of error before? Is there a utility that will allow me to initialize the array without blowing up the data? Is there a program that can read arrays and extract the data given the circumstances?
Thanks
Aneil
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