HD raid is gone...

Computer Forum Storage Devices
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My system is a video-editing system, I have 2 250g SATA in raid-0 for my video files…

I think my SATA-raid controller (integrated in MB) crapped out (ironically last week I posted how great my MB was working).
My motherboard does have another controller built in. Does anyone know if I can somehow rebuild the raid on a different controller? I plugged the drives into the other controller, the raid utility lists the array status as ‘dead’.

The raid that I was using is an intel raid controller (2 ports), the other one is a Marvell (4 ports).

It was working fine when I shut down last night, this morning, I powered up and it’s gone. The weird thing I noticed is that now, it also doesn’t recognize my DVD burner (IDE) when the SATA drives are plugged into the INTEL controller. When I switched them over to the other controller, the DVD burner is recognized and the drives show up in the device manager (but not as a single raided drive).

Any help would be appreciated. I already checked my PSU and updated the bios.

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I’d use the diagnostic tools from the manufacturer of your drives to test the hard drives. If one’s dead, then your SOL. As for how, I don’t know. I’m also not sure if it’s do-able with whatever controller you have.

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I was able to get it to recognize the controller (controller shows up on device manager but drives do not).

During post, the drives and the controller BOTH are listed and it says ‘controller started’, but than says ‘raid status DEAD’ and ‘Bios not loaded’.

In the controller utilities, there’s a ‘varify data’ tool…I ran it on both drives, no errors.

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Unfortunately, software RAIDs in Windows can be pretty unstable. Windows is hard on HDDs anyway, and drivers can be flakey. Since software RAIDs in Windows are often driver-based, it’s a recipe for disaster if you use it for anything important. I’ve been burned by such a setup myself in the past. Really, with a failed RAID-0 there’s likely no easy way to recover.