RAID1 Drive Xpert question

[ChairShot]

I had a system crash on my PC and had to reinstall windows. I unplugged every other HDD except for the SSD on which Win 7 U x64 will be installed.

Everything installed, all drivers and updates done. I plug every non-RAID HDD in and all works.

On the previous win install, I had a RAID1 array using the Drive Xpert on my P5Q-e and it was working perfectly fine.

Problem I have now ....

When I plug the 2 drives in, windows wont boot (windows logo screen that nevers loads)

- system repair doesnt know how to solve the error
- Drive expert is installed and drivers are up to date
- the array shows up at POST and is being correctly identified as a 2TB RAID1
- If I use the BIOS to configure Drive Xpert it tells me that all data will be lost on 1 of the drives... but I dont really want to take the chance to lose everything...

What can be done so that RAID 1 is detected once more.... with no data loss?

And if I do go with the BIOS, will I be able to rebuild it after?

thanks a bunch.

 

[Spikesoldier]

i would try to see if the system will boot and access a single drive rather than trying the pair at once.

if you can see your data, you can build a new raid1 using the other 2.0TB drive and copy the other disk over to it. once completed, try adding the other drive to the array and see if it will rebuild using the fresh data you copied to the first disk.

 

[ChairShot]

System doesn't boot when either drive is connected...

 

[ChairShot]

little update:

went to BIOS and set the option of Drive Xpert to normal mode...

- Booted and got in Windows with the 2 drives plugged in.
- Both drive showed up in disk manager but one was offline and had a error report saying "This disk is offline because it has a signature collision with another disk."
- turned it online in disk Manager and now both disks are available, both work, and both have all my data...

easiest way to rebuild the array?

 

[Jeff7181]

I'm not familiar with Drive Xpert, but in a case like this, I'd fail one of the drives via software, then readd it to the array and let the rebuild happen on its own as it's designed to.