RAID gone wrong

[kd2777]

I set up a RAID a few days ago and my computer has been nothing but trouble ever since. I decided to get rid of it, so I went to the bois and set it up to boot from CD, turned the RAID off and then saved and exited. I was going to wait untill it posted and then turn it off and switch all the cables, but it never posted. I waited about 15 mins and nothing. Then I turned it off and took out one of the HDDs and hooked it to abother computer on IDE1 slave and was going to format the drive, but the drive never showed up under "My computer". I could see the drive under the device manager but nothing else. I tried a start up disk, nothing. I tried to go into the drive through the C: while it was hooked to my second computer but nothing. I don't know what to do here. Any help would be loved.

 

[Varsh]

Plug the Hard-Drive back in as you did previously RAIDed, then when booting up, hit whichever button it is to go into your RAID BIOS, then simply delete the RAID partition, then reformat the drives when you've put it back to IDE.

 

[kd2777]

It won't post to let me do it. Any thing else I can do?

 

[Varsh]

Nope sorry, someone around here will know what to do so I guess you have just gotta wait I guess :|
Good luck with fixing it though.

 

[kd2777]

I just took out the 9500pro and replaced with my old trusty VooDoo3000 pci, for what ever reason it booted, I have deleted the partition and know I'm getting ready to format. Thanks

 

[Varsh]

Anytime
Kinda odd that it's the Radeon though.....

 

[kd2777]

I did get it reformated, however it is reading one of the drives as 160gb and the other doesn't show up. I have put the one that didn't show up in my computer and installed windows on it and it seems to be working fine. Any guess on how to get the other back down to 80?

 

[GilletteCat]

I imagine you have deleted the array in the RAID utility as it was suggested before. The reason for one to bo 160 and the other 0, is that for some reason the previous action did not quite take. Also, after you are sure there is no array defined, you have to switch the jumpers on the mobo not to use raid, but rather make it IDE0 and IDE1. Then, I the bios, within booting device sequence settings, make sure that the second device is HD0, not ATA133 RAID, or whichever one you've got. I assume that the first device is obviously a floppy.
Good luck

 

[Varsh]

Or instead of changing the jumpers all you need to do is just disable RAID anyway. From what (s)he said earlier I presume the RAID array is already deleted.

 

[kd2777]

The array is deleted and the RAID function has been turned of in the Bios, my mobo has no jumpers to speak of. I don't know if I mentioned it earlier but the one drive was at 0 but I was able to hook it back to my mother board and install windows on it (now it say 80 and works perfect. How ever when I put my second HDD on there it says it is a 160 drive and even if I format it it still say 160. I dodn't know what to do with it.

Mother board - Giga-Byte 8inxp
HDD 80gb WD special

 

[Varsh]

Try using Partition Magic and delete the partition on the Hard-Drive, then create another partition on that drive to NTFS or FAT32, that should solve your problem, if not I'm out of ideas :|