RAID 0 disappeared

[phorland]

Hello,

I'm using an ASUS P5B deluxe WIFI-AP

In July 2007 I built a system with three WD 250GB hard drives.
One for OS
Two in RAID 0 to capture video.
It has worked beautifully until yesterday.

RAID 0 stopped working. Now I see only one disk out of the two 250GB WD that used to constitute the 500 GB RAID 0. I've ran a diagnostic using the diagnostic tool from WD and according to it all drives are OK, it's just that one drive disappeared. I have only one drive out of the two now. IT works fine. I've checked all the connections.

When I go to the Intel Matrix storage console within window I get a message saying that a plug in failed to load and the driver not properly installed. What driver? The one from the HD the matrix?

During POST I do NOT have the opportunity to access the Intel Matrix Storage as I dont' see the prompt for CTR + I

any ideas anybody?



Thanks
Phil

 

[AnnonUSA]

You simply cannot lose one drive in a RAID 0 setup and "continue working". You either never really had a RAID 0 Setup or you were running RAID 1.

 

[gammaray]

or else you had it running but made a change either in the bios or formatted a drive using another OS, like linux maybe?

 

[phorland]

I had a RAID 0. The size was 465 GB for over a year. That was two 232 GB together. Well, those were 250GB but appear as 232.
Suddenly i have only one drive left and it's a 232. I know, I was capturing video for more than a year with that RAID 0 and its size was really 465GB, and now it's 232. I did nothing. I did NOT install Service Pack 3, I did NOT modify ANYTHING.

 

[Qbah]

Check BIOS settings for activating the RAID. I had my BIOS yesterday reset itself after a reboot and went 😕 at first, since Windows didn't want to boot up. Changing the setting back cured the problem 🙂