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I am running an ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard which has two integrated RAID controllers - an Nvidia NForce 4 and a Silicon Image 3114R RAID controller. I have two 74 gb WD SATA Raptors on RAID 0 (Striping) on the SI 3114R controller and this set operates as my boot disc. I further have two 300 gb SATA Maxtor and 1 160 gb IDE Maxtor HDDs connected in a Just-A-Bunch-of-Discs (JBOD) setup with my Nvidia NForce 4 controller (the SATA drives are connected directly to the NForce4 onboard RAID SATA ports, the IDE Maxtor is connected via IDE and set [through jumpers] as the Primary IDE drive and further enabled as a RAID drive through BIOS). I had to reinstall my Windows XP setup: I used a XP SP1 CD and installed the SI3114 drivers through the F6/RAID routine, the XP Installation, once the SI RAID drivers were installed, instantly recognized the two WD Raptors as a single drive and the installation proceeded.
My problem is the following: after installing XP, the Disc Manager fails to recognize the NForce4 JBOD drive, instead displaying only a single, uninitialized and unformatted 160 gb drive (the Maxtor IDE-connected HDD which is part of the JBOD set). I further install the ASUS Nforce drivers (including NVRAID) and once those are installed, XP detects the full JBOD set but demands that I format the drives before I can access them. I can, of course, quick format and run a format-recovery program (I've been using GetDataBack for NFTS) but I have almost 500 gbs of data on the JBOD disc and since GetDataBack only allows me to copy recovered files and not restore them onto the JBOD disc, I simply do not have enough free disc space to recover all these files (of course, I cannot recover the files and put them onto my boot drive and then transfer to the JBOD drive since there is the real risk that I will override files that will be recovered in the future). But I disgress. Is there any way, with any program, to restore this JBOD harddrive without having to resort to copying the 'found' lost files onto another drive, and conversely, is there any way to ensure, with a future XP reinstallation, that the JBOD disc instantly reinitializes without a formatting? Thanks, in advance.
I am running an ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard which has two integrated RAID controllers - an Nvidia NForce 4 and a Silicon Image 3114R RAID controller. I have two 74 gb WD SATA Raptors on RAID 0 (Striping) on the SI 3114R controller and this set operates as my boot disc. I further have two 300 gb SATA Maxtor and 1 160 gb IDE Maxtor HDDs connected in a Just-A-Bunch-of-Discs (JBOD) setup with my Nvidia NForce 4 controller (the SATA drives are connected directly to the NForce4 onboard RAID SATA ports, the IDE Maxtor is connected via IDE and set [through jumpers] as the Primary IDE drive and further enabled as a RAID drive through BIOS). I had to reinstall my Windows XP setup: I used a XP SP1 CD and installed the SI3114 drivers through the F6/RAID routine, the XP Installation, once the SI RAID drivers were installed, instantly recognized the two WD Raptors as a single drive and the installation proceeded.
My problem is the following: after installing XP, the Disc Manager fails to recognize the NForce4 JBOD drive, instead displaying only a single, uninitialized and unformatted 160 gb drive (the Maxtor IDE-connected HDD which is part of the JBOD set). I further install the ASUS Nforce drivers (including NVRAID) and once those are installed, XP detects the full JBOD set but demands that I format the drives before I can access them. I can, of course, quick format and run a format-recovery program (I've been using GetDataBack for NFTS) but I have almost 500 gbs of data on the JBOD disc and since GetDataBack only allows me to copy recovered files and not restore them onto the JBOD disc, I simply do not have enough free disc space to recover all these files (of course, I cannot recover the files and put them onto my boot drive and then transfer to the JBOD drive since there is the real risk that I will override files that will be recovered in the future). But I disgress. Is there any way, with any program, to restore this JBOD harddrive without having to resort to copying the 'found' lost files onto another drive, and conversely, is there any way to ensure, with a future XP reinstallation, that the JBOD disc instantly reinitializes without a formatting? Thanks, in advance.
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