After raid no HDD

[Tagget_20]

I THINK I accidentally raided my SSD's (not sure).
I installed a new Samsung 970 EVO SSD and used the samsungs migrating software to put the operating system on new drive.
I had everything there. My existing internal storage HDD, DVD drive, and the new SSD with the successfully migrated windows to my new drive and also showed the old SSD with the data still on (data just copied across I guess) and a reserved partion.

This where the shit hit the fan.

I thought I must raid it(didn't understand much about it)
went through the BIOS on my ASUS motherboard and in the wizard I chose to raid it and now the only thing to show in the opened windows under "Computer" is the C: Drive my new drive only I guess because it only shows the SSD GB size.

I went into disk manager and only found my new SSD970 described so and the other saying "Intel Raid 0 volume SCSI Disk Device.

How can I scrap this set up and get back to where it was.


Please help

Kind Regards
Tagget

I hope I didn't lose any data. I'm sure I didn't delete anything.

 

[13thmonkey]

Do you need to recover data from old drives (250GB, 1TB) ?

YES please!

I don't recall me allowing raid to delete my drives.

Putting it into raid effectively reformats the disk, hence deleting stuff.

I know this thread is moving very quickly, but listen to skynetrising, do not jump ahead of him, there is a small chance of recovery of some of your files, but this will be dramatically reduced if you do the wrong thing at the wrong time.You should prepare for full data loss however.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Yes, I agree. Chances of recovering anything are quite slim.

 

[13thmonkey]

Yes, I agree. Chances of recovering anything are quite slim.

The only chance is if no format was done in Windows and the bios just initialised ready for raid, but in which case I'm not sure which Windows instalation was being used to see this. A recovery program would still be needed.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Raid 0 was created using 250GB and 1TB drive.
That means first 250GB are probably unrecoverable, but remaining 750GB portion of 1TB drive should be untouched and recovery possible.

 

[Tagget_20]

Did you delete raid? Than needs to be done first. So that Disk Management shows separate 250GB and 1TB drives.

I'm not sure how to do this correctly?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Go to BIOS section, where you created raid. There should be option to delete raid also.
Post photo of the BIOS screen, if you're not sure.

 

[Tagget_20]

Here you can view some photos I took that the BIOS options showed for me. I'm not sure which way to go.

https://ibb.co/fkLEbL
https://ibb.co/hrV830
https://ibb.co/cyqmqf
https://ibb.co/jHZUAf
https://ibb.co/mDhubL
https://ibb.co/jLuqGL
https://ibb.co/cLbFi0
https://ibb.co/cBMLGL

 

[SkyNetRising]

Show raid storage configuration from this screen:

What's the motherboard model name BTW?

 

[Tagget_20]

More photos;
https://ibb.co/kV80Y0

https://ibb.co/b4H2D0

Motherboard: ASUS H97I-PLUS

 

[13thmonkey]

is it not just a case of turning raid mode off in bios?

 

[SkyNetRising]

More photos;

To rebuild a RAID volume, delete existing RAID volume first from
Advanced Mode > Advanced tab > Intel Rapid Storage Technology.

Go there and delete RAID volume.

 

[Tagget_20]

Data retrievers in parramatta can get all data from it no worries even bypass passwords and recall any deleted items from before.