Recent content by RaidProblemGuy

Wow first off thank you to everyone, I've often found great threads on tom's hardware from google, but I've never made an account and didn't realize how great this community was, thanks! Now back to me problem (haha), I think you hit the crux of the problem when you mentioned the MBR, I'm...

I used a different power connector, and a brand new SATA3 cable I had extra. I know exactly which HDD is not being correctly associated through unplugging each drive and rebooting deduction, and so after I figured that out I moved the non-associating drive to different ports and the problem...

Sorry I should clarify. I set up the raid through a BIOS raid controller, provided by Gigabyte. Through the bios settings I was able to designate my first four sata ports as RAID ports (where I plugged in my three new drives) and then my last two to be normal IDE ports (where I connected my OS...

My motherboard is: Gigabyte ga-890fxa-ud5, which has a built in raid controller. I have been running a single 1TB hard drive with windows 7 on it but recently purchased three Western Digital WD Black WD1002FAEX 1TB HDDs since I wanted to set up a RAID5. So two days ago I plugged in these three...