Question Help Restoring Raid 5

[Sitk]

So I made a big mistake trying to speed up my media server. I had a 4 drive Raid 5. The drives used the MB SATA ports 2,3,4,5. Ports 0 and 1 were used by my SSD (with Win 10) and BluRay respectively. I got a PCIe SATA card and 2nd SSD thinking to use that as scratch drive for transcoding. Well, I moved both SSDs and BluRay to the PCIe card and -stupidly- moved two of my Raid drives to SATA ports 0 and 1 from 4 and 5 opening them for possible future expansion after my intended backing up the data (which I know should have been done 1st).

Anyway, now only the two drives that I didnt unplug are still recognized as being in the raid. The other 2 appear as unpartitioned drives. I tried moving them back to their original ports but no luck. Is my raid/data gone or is there anything I can do? Drives still work, just not recognized.

The Raid is hardware Raid 5 setup in the UEFI. The MB is a Gigabyte GA-Z170X Gaming 5. I emailed Gigabyte support but no answer for a week now.

Thanks

 

[USAFRet]

RAID 5 survives the loss on ONE drive.
You took out two.

If you did any sort of formatting or configuration on those drives outside of the previous RAID array...all that data is gone.

Currently, I'm in the process of reconfiguring my whole NAS config.
4x 4TB drives, RAID 5.
There is a 100% backup before I do this.
And just in case, I am in the process of a second 100% data backup of all of it.

So before I touch anything regarding the RAID 5, there will be at least 2, often 3 or 4, copies of whatever data is involved.

 

[Sitk]

That's what I should have done. But I didn't think simply moving from one SATA port on the MB to another would make a difference. It does. I did not format or do anything to the drives so the data is still there, the computer just cant read it because Im guessing it doesn't know the drive order for the stripe and which one is the parity. I know if I sent all 4 drives to a data recovery company they could easily do it, but that will likely cost over $1k for data that is just my movies ripped to Plex. I have all my disks so recovering the Raid would save me time doing it again but not worth $1k.

 

[Sitk]

Disregard - I found a software solution. A bit pricey for personal diy but WAY cheaper than sending disks off to a recovery business. Everything was recovered. The Raid Recovery is from DiskInternals.