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Problems booting off of raided hard drives

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My old rig booted off of 2 160 GB in raid0. I bought a new rig and the old one sat for a few months. Recently I tried bringing it back to life and I found out that for some reason I couldn?t get any video cards to work in the AGP slot. I updated the BIOS, pulled everything off of the board etc, but nothing worked. Anyway I got it to boot with a PCI video card.


However, now I can't boot off of my raided hard drives. I get a disk boot failure. I'm trying to remember if I switched the IDE cables around when I pulled everything off of the motherboard. Is there any way to check if the hard drives are plugged correctly into the controllers? Or is there something else I?m missing here?
 
I did that, in the raid setup. It still detected the hard drives, one as a BOOT and the other as hidden, with the array sized to 320gb. I also set the boot device to ATARAID in the motherboards bios as well.
 
removing the battery will reset the bios to defaults. So you will have to re-enable raid and raid boot room.
 
So you took your raid out of an old setup and put it into a new setup with a new motherboard? You can't do that if that's what you did. You can't switch raid controllers with an array.
 
The array is actually still there...If i try to create a new array it won't let me, it gives this error: "cannot create array because there are not enough disks.".

The only thing it will let me do is select a boot disk, which i tried, but i still get a boot disk error.

Can i delete this array and create a new one without losing all my data on the drives?

Thanks.

edit: it's on the same motherboard that i created the array on.
 
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