Help with raid 0 recovery

[murphburg]

I recently tried to encode some video with my machine and found that my overclock was not as stable as I initially thought.

CPU specs as follows:
i7 2600k
asus p8p67 pro mobo
16GB ram @1600 mhz
240GB SSD for OS
2x 500GB HDD in raid 0 for some additional storage

In order to stop the crashing and be able to encode my video, I removed all overclocking settings in my bios, but in the process, realized that my mobo bios was way out of date. So i flashed the bios.

Now when windows boots, two 500gb drives are recognized separately in windows 10 and file explorer is asking for format them.

Have I lost the data in this raid array or is there a setting I'm missing in the bios that will get windows to recognize this as the raid 0 it once was?

Thanks.

 

[Fates_Demise]

go into bios and set the raid array back together

 

[drtweak]

GO back in set the Hard drives back to RAID in the in the BIOS.

This happens to a LOT of people. Software RAID will ALWAYS get wiped when resetting the BIOS or Upgrading the BIOS.

ALSO HAVE A BACKUP OF RAID 0!!! NEVER USE it unless 1) You don't care about the DATA or 2) Have a backup!

 

[murphburg]

GO back in set the Hard drives back to RAID in the in the BIOS.

This happens to a LOT of people. Software RAID will ALWAYS get wiped when resetting the BIOS or Upgrading the BIOS.

ALSO HAVE A BACKUP OF RAID 0!!! NEVER USE it unless 1) You don't care about the DATA or 2) Have a backup!

Thanks for the detailed reply. So just to confirm, I have definitely lost the data on these drives and I should just format and/or re-initialize the RAID?

 

[drtweak]

If you do not care about anything on the drives that will be best.

 

[murphburg]

GO back in set the Hard drives back to RAID in the in the BIOS.

This happens to a LOT of people. Software RAID will ALWAYS get wiped when resetting the BIOS or Upgrading the BIOS.

ALSO HAVE A BACKUP OF RAID 0!!! NEVER USE it unless 1) You don't care about the DATA or 2) Have a backup!

How do I remove the "best chosen solution"? I was wrong.

Here's what I was looking for. My RAID array existed the entire time and Windows 10 was just missing the driver. All I had to do was boot into windows safe mode with the bios SATA setting set to RAID instead of AHCI and windows automatically installed RAID drivers. I reset the computer and started up as normal and my RAID 0 is back. No formatting, no data loss.

How to enable RAID AFTER having installed Win OS (This works in Win 7, 8 and 10)

1. Use run command (Winkey+r) and type "msconfig", hit enter.

2. Under the second tab "Boot", check "Safe boot" under boot options, use "Minimal" sub-option.

3. Click OK and reboot.

4. At reboot enter bios and change controller to RAID, safe bios and reboot.

5. Windows will now boot up in "Safe mode" and automatically install RAID drivers.

6. While you are still in "Safe mode" reverse the option to boot into "Safe mode".

7. Use run command (Winkey+r) and type "msconfig", hit enter.

8. Under the second tab "Boot", uncheck "Safe boot" under boot options.

9. Click OK and reboot.

Windows will now load as normal with RAID enabled.

I hope this helps someone else.

 

[drtweak]

I removed it, and yea missing drive would def cause the issue lol