imported_aireq
Junior Member
I have two identical seagate 150 gb SATA drives plugged into a Adaptec 2 port PCI SATA controller. I had them setup on Windows XP Pro as a RAID 1 (mirrored) array. Win XP Pro does not support mirrored arrays. Thus I used the instructions at this site
http://members.home.nl/rvandesanden/raid3.html
to enable support for mirrored arrays. Everything was working fine until my power supply died. So I ended up buying a whole new case, and moved all my hardware into the new case. I did not realize that raid arrays were so sensitive so with out even thinking I figured while I'm moving everything to a new case I might as well just reinstall windows.
So I reisntalled Windows XP Pro, and only plugged in one of the 150 GB drives just to be safe. But neither the controller nor the drive would show up. I did the hack described in the website above to enable drive mirroring but still I could not see the drive. Finaly I moved my SATA controller up one PCI slot. And the drive appeared in disk managment.
The status of the drive was "stale" and I had the option when right clicking to "import foreign disk. In hind sight I think I should have done this. Instead I shut down and plugged in the second drive to see if windows would just recongnize the array.
Disk managment then showed both drives, but both had a status of "failed". So again to be safe I shut down and unplugged one drive. Started up again and the single drive still had a "failed" status. And the import foreign drive, was no longer an option.
The only option was to "reactivate" I tried that but the "failed" status did not change. Then it gave me the option to remove mirror. My thought was that windows recongnized that the drive was part of a mirror, and thus the "mirror" had failed not the drive since one of the drives was unplugged. I chose remove mirror and choose to remove the "missing disk" from the mirror. Now the drive shows up as a simple volume, but the status is still failed.
There is no way either of these disks have failed, they are brand new. One thing to consider is I setup the mirrored array on a SP2 system, and now I have a completely fresh install of plain XP.
I have a post on tomshardware trying to figure out how to restore the data on one of these drives as well.
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware...-created-Win-XP-Pro-ftopict198007.html
Eric
http://members.home.nl/rvandesanden/raid3.html
to enable support for mirrored arrays. Everything was working fine until my power supply died. So I ended up buying a whole new case, and moved all my hardware into the new case. I did not realize that raid arrays were so sensitive so with out even thinking I figured while I'm moving everything to a new case I might as well just reinstall windows.
So I reisntalled Windows XP Pro, and only plugged in one of the 150 GB drives just to be safe. But neither the controller nor the drive would show up. I did the hack described in the website above to enable drive mirroring but still I could not see the drive. Finaly I moved my SATA controller up one PCI slot. And the drive appeared in disk managment.
The status of the drive was "stale" and I had the option when right clicking to "import foreign disk. In hind sight I think I should have done this. Instead I shut down and plugged in the second drive to see if windows would just recongnize the array.
Disk managment then showed both drives, but both had a status of "failed". So again to be safe I shut down and unplugged one drive. Started up again and the single drive still had a "failed" status. And the import foreign drive, was no longer an option.
The only option was to "reactivate" I tried that but the "failed" status did not change. Then it gave me the option to remove mirror. My thought was that windows recongnized that the drive was part of a mirror, and thus the "mirror" had failed not the drive since one of the drives was unplugged. I chose remove mirror and choose to remove the "missing disk" from the mirror. Now the drive shows up as a simple volume, but the status is still failed.
There is no way either of these disks have failed, they are brand new. One thing to consider is I setup the mirrored array on a SP2 system, and now I have a completely fresh install of plain XP.
I have a post on tomshardware trying to figure out how to restore the data on one of these drives as well.
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware...-created-Win-XP-Pro-ftopict198007.html
Eric
