The "Fix or break it Yes-by-default" and "click first - think later" approaches failed miserably!
The first Google result returned some usable tutorial on ICH10R similar to yours http://www.evga.com/support/faq/afmviewfaq.aspx?faqid=59203
I cannot help further as I don't know what you pressed in popups when drive died first. Edit: OK I think that the 2 instead on just one popup was because there is actually 2 volumes on the drives. The question is why they are not shown as bootable.
P.S. The System needs better I/O performance than linear speed, the storage needs balance of both. The stripe size should be otherwise when the volumes was initially created.
Topic: Recovering a 3 disk RAID-5 w/Intel controller... plz help! (Read 1267 times)
Ah having a bit of a problem here.
MOBO - Asus P6T WS PRO
One drive of a 3-drive RAID-5 array has failed.
Upon booting, in the RAID's BIOS said there was one disk that one disk was offline and another was at error. It asked me if I want to fix it, I hit yes, asked me again, I hit yes again. I assume it 'fixed' one of the drives' error state but the other it couldn't find.
When the system is booting with these drives installed, the BIOS hangs at the failed drive.
^ This is the BIOS with the 3 original HDDs installed.
There are no options to do anything, really.
So I have another 1.5 TB, brand new. So I took out the failed drive, put this new one in it's place, and booted to the RAID's BIOS, and it looks exactly like the above screenshot except instead of 'offline member' it says 'non-RAID drive'.
So there are no options here to do anything.
I had the idea to install Win7 on another HDD, I took a 250GB and got that ready, and installed drivers + Intel Matrix Storage manager.
I just installed everything, is there anything I can do at this point?
Any help will be greatly appreciated! 4.5 TB of data on the line!
Thx!!!
MOBO - Asus P6T WS PRO
One drive of a 3-drive RAID-5 array has failed.
Upon booting, in the RAID's BIOS said there was one disk that one disk was offline and another was at error. It asked me if I want to fix it, I hit yes, asked me again, I hit yes again. I assume it 'fixed' one of the drives' error state but the other it couldn't find.
When the system is booting with these drives installed, the BIOS hangs at the failed drive.
^ This is the BIOS with the 3 original HDDs installed.
There are no options to do anything, really.
So I have another 1.5 TB, brand new. So I took out the failed drive, put this new one in it's place, and booted to the RAID's BIOS, and it looks exactly like the above screenshot except instead of 'offline member' it says 'non-RAID drive'.
So there are no options here to do anything.
I had the idea to install Win7 on another HDD, I took a 250GB and got that ready, and installed drivers + Intel Matrix Storage manager.
I just installed everything, is there anything I can do at this point?
Any help will be greatly appreciated! 4.5 TB of data on the line!
Thx!!!
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