hatman3345
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Dear Techspot,
after spending a fair old bit of coin on a computer a couple of years back it was to my dispare that I recently had to replace my motherboard (the thing really messed up; it wouldnt even get as far as keyboard initialisation so no BIOS control). So, Ive changed from a socket 939 MSI K8N SLI NForce 4 motherboard to a Socket 939 ASUS A8N Deluxe.
Then comes the problem, the HDD's Raid config. I have 2 Western Digital 200Gb drives in Raid 0. After fitting the motherboard and stupidly not noting which drive was in which SATA RAID port originally, things only got worse. I plugged them in and couldn't get them to show up on the main bios page as "first SATA master" and "second SATA master" as I believe they should [by the way at any time in this thread I may be completely wrong]. My IDE drives show up fine but this is my first point of confusion.
My NVIDIA controller on the advanced settings of my bios does not detect the HDDs at all but the "silicon raid controller" will detect the drives in the type shown on start up (not in the bios main page). After changing the settings with both of these controllers and changing the SATA RAID ports the HDDs were in (there are 4 available), bootup would always end in "Disk boot failure. Insert system disc".
Then I really messed things up. I went to the silicon raid controller bios menu and created a raid array. This may or may not have accessed the drives and overwritten the original raid boot data.
So now here I am. Im desperate to keep information that was on the HDDs. There is some recent data that I didnt get to back up. I heard if it's all gone a bit wrong I could get a seperate IDE HDD, install windows on there and use a raid repair application to gain access to the drives through My Computer.
I hope I have provided enough info on this drawn out situation and that someone can shed light on things. I'm well over my head with this!
after spending a fair old bit of coin on a computer a couple of years back it was to my dispare that I recently had to replace my motherboard (the thing really messed up; it wouldnt even get as far as keyboard initialisation so no BIOS control). So, Ive changed from a socket 939 MSI K8N SLI NForce 4 motherboard to a Socket 939 ASUS A8N Deluxe.
Then comes the problem, the HDD's Raid config. I have 2 Western Digital 200Gb drives in Raid 0. After fitting the motherboard and stupidly not noting which drive was in which SATA RAID port originally, things only got worse. I plugged them in and couldn't get them to show up on the main bios page as "first SATA master" and "second SATA master" as I believe they should [by the way at any time in this thread I may be completely wrong]. My IDE drives show up fine but this is my first point of confusion.
My NVIDIA controller on the advanced settings of my bios does not detect the HDDs at all but the "silicon raid controller" will detect the drives in the type shown on start up (not in the bios main page). After changing the settings with both of these controllers and changing the SATA RAID ports the HDDs were in (there are 4 available), bootup would always end in "Disk boot failure. Insert system disc".
Then I really messed things up. I went to the silicon raid controller bios menu and created a raid array. This may or may not have accessed the drives and overwritten the original raid boot data.
So now here I am. Im desperate to keep information that was on the HDDs. There is some recent data that I didnt get to back up. I heard if it's all gone a bit wrong I could get a seperate IDE HDD, install windows on there and use a raid repair application to gain access to the drives through My Computer.
I hope I have provided enough info on this drawn out situation and that someone can shed light on things. I'm well over my head with this!