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RAID NIGHTMARE

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JOEJOETHEJOEY

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I've just brought a new MSI KT4 Ultra-BSR mobo and have taken all my old stuff from my old mobo and put it into the new. I've kept all the same CPU, Graphics Card, Sound Card etc etc, even the same HDDs. The thing is, on my old mobo, the Gigabyte GA-7DXR had built in RAID and I had a Striped Array running on it with 2 IBM 40GB HDDs. But for the new mobo, I've had to use a separate "EIO" RAID card, I've plugged in everything now but the system just doesn't boot. It keeps saying 'boot failure'. I think it's not reading the two HDDs as "one".

Does anyone know what I need to do to make it work?? Anyone ever moved a Striped Array to another system?? I'm really really out of ideas now!! I'm despearte for some advice. I don't wanna lose all my old stuff so I have to get this to work. Any ideas?? Any help?? Please??

Thanks in advanced!!
 
Different chips map drives differently sometimes. Can you plug it back into your old motherboard to get all the data off? Also can you make sure that you have the hard drives set up the right way on the card?

Will
 
@Willoughbyva:

I am also worried that it's because of the two different chipsets. I have tried switching both HDDs around to test if that was the case but still no luck.

@daveshel:

I'm using Win XP Professional, but I'm not sure what you mean by Win2K dynamic volume.

I'm worried now that even if I put it back into my old mobo, it will have changed the HDDs properties and make that unbootable too. 🙁

Any other ideas please?
 
Right, I've now tried to put it back into my old mobo and ALAS!!!! To no suprise, it doesn't work now either!! Still BOOT DISK FAILURE!!!!

So what do you guys suggest so that I can fix it?? Apart from starting afresh.

I've tried using the REBUILD array function, but no luck there.

Now, if I delete the array and then rebuild it, will this mean that I have to reformat the HDDs, or will I be able to get back the data I have on it??

Please please please don't tell me I've lost everything!!!!
 
Ok I've had a "BOOT FAILURE" situation also with 2 HDs in RAID 0. I switched from a mobo that had inbuild RAID to another mobo without RAID and I had to use a PCI RAID card. What I have done in my motherboard's BIOS is set "3rd boot device to SCSI" and set "4th boot device to LAN" or "other". As for my 1st and 2nd boot devices, they are set to "Floppy" and "CD-ROM". It solved my problem.

Try it.
 
Hey, that sounds promising, but how did the system boot without any HDDs then?? Could you give me more details coz I am in a very similar situation.

Please help me out. Thanks!

Joe
 
Since you're using a RAID addon card, simply setting your "Boot Device" in your mobos BIOS to boot from your "Hard Drive" won't cut it. In order to boot from the RAID addon card you have to set the "Boot Device" to "SCSI". My boot devices are in this order:

1st - Floppy
2nd - SCSI
3rd - CD-ROM
4th - Other

Sorry, I couldn't answer sooner but I'm having loads of problems with my system. If anybody is familiar with an "Input Error" than please share your thoughts.
 
I see whar you mean now, but I think you've misunderstood my problem. It's not the boot order thats playing up, it's the RAID bios won't boot up the 2 HDDs as 1, hence not finding the data. This is because the BOOT info has probably been changed when I put it into the new RAID.

I need to find a way of changing it back, but I've still no luck.
 
Who told you you could swap drives from one controller to another? This almost never works! You may very well have lost all your data. Does this new card even have the same kind of controller?
 
There is no way you can transplant RAID drives that way, the two controllers may not even work the same way. I think you have lost your data.
 
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