Raid 0 problem

[waxking1]

I have an Abit Max 3 motherboard and am booting from a non raid drive. I have a raid 0 set up on the ich5r. I was installing another hard drive and when I got things back together my raid 0 is no longer recognized. I have checked the cable and even changed to a different power rail and the computer does not recongnize the drives at all. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.

 

[lansalot]

Does the RAID manager see it at all? Define "computer does not recognize".

 

[waxking1]

I don't think I've got a Raid manager. Under disk management, Layout still says simple, type dynamic, status: Failed.

Also when you scroll to where the HDs are listed it says Missing and in the box 372.62GB Failed.

 

[stevty2889]

Did you disconnect the raid-0 drives when you installed the new drive? Did you make sure you put them back in exactly the same spot? Did you make sure none of the bios settings are changed? The raid manager that he is refering too is where you originaly set up your raid array..what is your hard drive layout now, and what was it before installing the new drive?

 

[waxking1]

I have a 74G raptor on SATA 3, I have three IDE HDs, and I have the new SATA Drive I just installed on SATA 4. I thought I may have had a bad connection on SATA cable so I put new cables in and I may have mixed them up. I've tried switching back but results are the same. Its been a while since I set this up and I really don't remember. The only raid utility I can get to is the SIL by pressing the F4 when booting. It does not show my SATA 1-2 raid or these drives at all. It does show the SATA 3 and 4. I remeber when I installed XP I had to install the Intel Raid drivers by pushing F6 when XP was loading its boot up drivers.

 

[stevty2889]

Double check all your BIOS settings. When you installed the additional SATA drive, it may have changed the drive configuration in BIOS. Make sure that the ICH5R raid is still enabled, it should be giving you a menu for that. Disable the SIL raid if you aren't using it, unless it won't let you use ports 3 and 4 with it disabled.

 

[Genx87]

Ok from what I am gathering is you have 3 IDE drives setup in RAID 0?
You added another SATA drive and now your RAID array is showing up in disk management with the ? mark and not showing up with a drive letter?

Chances are when you added the new SATA drive it bumped the drive letter for the RAID array and now Windows is too stupid to figure it out. All you have to do is import the disk back into Windows and it should show up again. I have had this happen to me before.

 

[waxking1]

stevty2889,
It was a BIOS setting, thanks for the help. I turned off the SIL Raid and it let me boot to the Intel Raid menu that was not there before. The Raid array was there and I activated it. When I rebooted it said missing disk put in system disk so I went into BIOS and changed it back to where the SIL Raid was active as before. It booted normally and now everything is back. Thanks