Missing Boot - Invalid Raid drives - No valide deivce!...

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Any suggestions on how to recover my raid array or any of my files?

OS is windows Vista, the RAID is configured as a 10 (Mirrored/Striped) with 4 WD SATA 250GB hard drives,
mb is ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe, Silicon controller in use, NVidia controller not in use.

Rebooted machine, and received the following error:

No valide deivce!...press any key to continue

(yes the spelling is like that on screen...)

Then I get: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

Tried rebooting a couple of times but no change. Ran the WD tools on the disks, "no problems".

If I do a Ctrl-S to enter the SiL-3114 (Silicon Image Controller) Bios,

it shows the 4 drives under Physical Drive but under Logical Drive it says "Invalid Raid drive".

If I click "Create Raid set it comes back with "Not enough single drives to create Raid set".

If I select “Resolve Conflicts”, it says no conflicts exist.


So now I purchased 2 additional Wd 250GB Drives identical to the other 4.

In addition maybe for troubleshooting, I have another computer that can run 2 drive raid sets.

I am not sure which direction I want to proceed to recover either my disk array or my files

without causing more damage to the posibility of recovering my files!

Please advise, thank-you.
 
I had the same problem and since its a hardware raid I was able to move the drive to the onboard controller and was able to see the drive and get my data.

My OS was on a non raided drive... my important data was on the raid1.
 
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