Recovering a RAID 5

[EdElias]

Hello,

I had some problems today with my system not booting, following some advice on this forum i repaired windows and that has fixed the problem.

However I had windows installed on a systems drive, and 3 storage hard drives in a RAID 5. the repair process has restored windows, but lost the RAID 5.

How can i recover the RAID and the data stored on the drives?

Thanks
Ed.

[jimboban]

Hiya

You'll need to go into the RAID Management interface (usually accessable via a keystroke after the BIOS)(Presuming motherboard RAID) - there will usually be an option to rebuild the raid - or somesuch -

Is it a motherboard RAID - if so, what is the motherboard?

Jim

[LegacyOne]

Doing some digging your motherboard is the ASUS P5W64WSPRO I975? And if your using Intel RAID then download and install this.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/down...stems&lang=eng

[EdElias]

I have the Intel(R) Matrix Storage Console, when i load it i get an error message saying:

"the RAID plug-in failed to load, because the driver is not installed correctly."

click OK

"the serial ATA plug-in failed to load, because the driver is not installed correctly."

click OK

I then get the blank console up.

[LegacyOne]

Have you done anything to the BIOS? And is the RAID runing off the motherboard or card?

In any case as you boot up at POST do you see any RAID info?

[EdElias]

I see no information about the RAID when i boot up. I used to before I repaired windows.

I dont believe I have done anything to the BIOS,

motherboard or card... not sure, i have no idea.

[LegacyOne]

motherboard or card... not sure, i have no idea.

Sorry what? Did you setup this computer?

[EdElias]

No it was a scan 3XS build

[LegacyOne]

No it was a scan 3XS build

Can you post the system specs as listed by them?

[EdElias]

System Details:

Belkin 125G Wireless PCI Adapt 1
LG GSA-H22LBAL LSCRIBE BLACK 1
3XS-INTEL CORE DUO HIGH END 1
Akasa BKCSE01 Eclipse-62 case 1
ASUS P5W64WSPRO I975 4XPCIE 1
580W TAGAN MODULAR T580-U15 2F 1
120MM Akasa AMBER Case Fan UQ 1
50cm Round A133 IDE Cable Cert 1
Rounded Floppy Drive Cable 1
1YR ONSITE TEL 01204 474756 1
Akasa SATA-45- Cable (45cm) 2
Nero V7 - OEM - Essentials 1
TO BUILD - FIT - TEST CHARGE 1
Intel E6700 Core2Duo 2.67GHz 1
Arctic Cool. Freezer7Pro s775 1
Corsair TwinX 2GB DDR2 8500 C5 1
512M SAPP X1950XTX PCI-E 1
ZALMAN VGA Cooler VF700-Cu Cop 1

150G WD SATA 10k RAPTOR 1 - this is the systems drive with windows on it

400G SAMSUNG SATA2 HD400LJ 3 - these are in the RAID 5

1.44 BLACK SONY FLOPPY DRIVE 1
SONY x16 SPEED DVD ROM (BLACK) 1
3.5 Int 15in1 Reader (black) 1
Clabs XFi Xterme Music OEM 1
MS Windows XP PRO SP2 1
NVDVD D5.1/DH/DPLII (GOLD) 1
OPEN OFFICE 1
20.1 Iiyama PLE511S-B Black 1
Logitech desktop MX3000 Laser 1
ZALMAN RS6F+M 5.1 Headphones 1
120MM Akasa AMBER Case Fan UQ 1
Akasa PAX-MATE-2 Soundproof Kt 1

[LegacyOne]

Ok then I think RAID is disabled in the BIOS then.

Enter the BIOS and go to > Main > IDE Configuration and change 'Configure SATA AS' to RAID.

F10 to save reboot and then try to install the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager.

[EdElias]

I did that, and everything seemed to be working, a screen came up listing the RAID configuration, and then windows started to load,

however it scrolled a couple of times and then froze, a blue screen flashed up and the computer restarted. this is the original problem for which I repaired windows.

[LegacyOne]

What you might have to do is reinstall with the RAID drives on disk with the RAID enabled.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Deta...ional&lang=eng

Press F6 at the Windows is setting up screen then say yes to add a driver and out of the list it should be 'Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA RAID Controller' then do the repair thing again.

[EdElias]

Thanks Legacy for all your help. I'll have a look at this on sunday.