I have a 4 drive RAID5 array of 2TB hitachi drives using the onboard ICH10R onboard controller. A recent sequence of events has caused this to go into failure. This sequence is as follows.
I recently changed around video cards which caused my system bios to somehow restore default settings. The default settings is to boot to ACHI instead of RAID. As luck would have it I booted into windows in ACHI mode. I got a few "You must format disk E:\ to use it" (the raid array disk) and cancelled the notifications. Knowing what the issue was I rebooted, went into my bios and set storage to RAID.
Upon reboot the RAID array tells me "RAID FAILURE" but shows me all 4 disks. All 4 disks are showing up but 2 of the 4 are showing as RAID MEMBER and the other 2 are showing as NON-MEMBER DISK. Bad news.
I have my OS on an SSD which is also a non-member (of the raid) disk which is on this controller.
So i'm now in windows and Intel software is again telling me array failure. No bueno. It also shows me the same deal: 2 non-member, 2 member disks.
At this point im stressed. Under windows storage management, windows is seeing 2 basic disks the of 5.5GB (the size of my array) and 1 "UNFORMATTED" disk of 5.5GB. At this point I haven't done any SMART testing or anything, im just freaked and wanting to get this post out to ask if anyone knows how to proceed.
RAID5 allows for 1 disk failure but not 2. Again, everything was good and reading fine prior to the boot into windows in ACHI mode. But i'm sweatin it. I do backups of hte important stuff but they are monthly and there stuff on there going back 17 days
I don't even know what or how to evaluate these disks individually without breaking up the raid.
Any help appreciated!
EDIT: Just rebooted and S.M.A.R.T status is showing accessible and "OK" for all 4 disks. Is it possible that when I booted into windows in ACHI somehow windows formatted 2 of my 4 disks? Is there a way to find out?
I recently changed around video cards which caused my system bios to somehow restore default settings. The default settings is to boot to ACHI instead of RAID. As luck would have it I booted into windows in ACHI mode. I got a few "You must format disk E:\ to use it" (the raid array disk) and cancelled the notifications. Knowing what the issue was I rebooted, went into my bios and set storage to RAID.
Upon reboot the RAID array tells me "RAID FAILURE" but shows me all 4 disks. All 4 disks are showing up but 2 of the 4 are showing as RAID MEMBER and the other 2 are showing as NON-MEMBER DISK. Bad news.
I have my OS on an SSD which is also a non-member (of the raid) disk which is on this controller.
So i'm now in windows and Intel software is again telling me array failure. No bueno. It also shows me the same deal: 2 non-member, 2 member disks.
At this point im stressed. Under windows storage management, windows is seeing 2 basic disks the of 5.5GB (the size of my array) and 1 "UNFORMATTED" disk of 5.5GB. At this point I haven't done any SMART testing or anything, im just freaked and wanting to get this post out to ask if anyone knows how to proceed.
RAID5 allows for 1 disk failure but not 2. Again, everything was good and reading fine prior to the boot into windows in ACHI mode. But i'm sweatin it. I do backups of hte important stuff but they are monthly and there stuff on there going back 17 days
I don't even know what or how to evaluate these disks individually without breaking up the raid.
Any help appreciated!
EDIT: Just rebooted and S.M.A.R.T status is showing accessible and "OK" for all 4 disks. Is it possible that when I booted into windows in ACHI somehow windows formatted 2 of my 4 disks? Is there a way to find out?
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