How Can I Tell If My Hard Drives Are Truly Corrupted?

[Guest]

After I flashed my BIOS, my 2 HDs running in RAID 0 appear to now be corrupt. When I put my BIOS in RAID, it BSODs, even when they aren't used to boot (I got a new SSD for Windows and programs recently).

My current situation is that I'm running in AHCI and the affected drives appear as a single drive, but unreadable. Windows says it needs to be formatted. Seagate Sea Tools says the drives are fine, and every other test says they're healthy, but I really don't want to reformat them unless they need to be. I have a lot of the data backed up, but I'm still hesitant.

I didn't put these drives in RAID, they came that way when I had it built so it's very possible I'm missing some program that can read the info that Windows can't. I was hoping you could help.

Thanks!

 

[Monish Gupta]

Try to run chkdsk that will tell you if it's corrupted or not. you can use run or Windows button + R to open the run box.

 

[manofchalk]

You flashed the BIOS and that reset the RAID controller on your mobo, which is why you have now lost your RAID0 array. Far as I'm aware, you cant move RAID arrays (except 1) between different controllers (which is what have basically done by flashing the BIOS) and expect them to work.

Try running a data recovery tool on the drives combined partition, which will hopefully pull out most of whats on there. But I wouldn't be too hopeful. You will need some storage device to receive the data it pulls out, as im sure your SSD would fill up pretty quickly if it is possible to recover the data, and you dont want to use the drives themselves.

 

[Tom Hogan]

Thanks for your time. I figured it was a lost cause.