Question Lost RAID 0 after BIOS Upgrade, can I recover it?

[Kurgan2]

I bought a PC from Cyberpower, had them put in 2 SSD's and a RAID 0 setup of 2 8TB drives. The motherboard is an MSI PRO Z790-P WIFI with an i9-14900KF CPU. Since the i9's are having problems, I figured I'd update the BIOS to get the fixes Intel has put out.

However, after the upgrade to version E7E061MS.AF0 my computer no longer recognizes the RAID 0 drive. The letter is there, it's my E: drive, but when click it it tells me I need to format the disk before I can use it. I need the data on this disk, all the legal documents pertaining to my father's estate are on it, for starters, along with a lot of other things I can't afford to lose.

In BIOS, I show 2 ST800NT001-3L drives in SATA P3 and P4, which are the drives in the RAID setup. I also have my 2 SSD drives, Kingston SNV2S (or SNV25, I can't read my own handwriting) in M2_1 and M2_3.

I put the question to MSI and was advised to turn VMD back on as the update would have set the system back to defaults. I did so, and as you can guess since I'm here, with no success. When I turn on VMD, all my drives vanish, so the system can't boot. I tried making a bootable thumb drive and booting through that with VMD on in hopes I could use the command prompt to copy the files to a 14TB external I just bought so I could try this, but even with VMD on in BIOS, when I boot from the thumb drive and go into cmd, I can't see the RAID drive, just the 2 SSDs, the thumb drive and the USB connected 14TB external.

Please tell me there's something I can do to recover the data from the RAID drive.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I need the data on this disk, all the legal documents pertaining to my father's estate are on it, for starters, along with a lot of other things I can't afford to lose.

Putting important legal documents on RAID 0 and having no backup.

 

[Kurgan2]

Putting important legal documents on RAID 0 and having no backup.

Thanks, not terribly helpful. I'm more than stressed out enough and beating myself up already.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Why RAID? RAID was never intended for home use. And why no backup of your essential data? This all comes down to your failure to plan. Recovery, if even possible is going to cost greatly. Only paying a recovery house to analyze the drives will tell the tale.

 

[Kurgan2]

Because they had that option when configuring the PC, and didn't have one for 2 seperate 8TB drives on top of the 2 4TB drives I already had. I didn't know squat about RAID other than if I chose it I could have a ton of storage space. No clue why they offer it on a gaming PC if it's not meant for home use.

And yes, thank you, pointing out it's my own fault is just as helpful as the post by SkyNetRising.

I was kind of hoping for some tech help, not more stress and blame.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

This is not someplace that you can perform some sort of software handwavium magic and recover your lost data. As already outlined, you will spend a large amount (likely into the thousands) just for an estimate on whether or not recovery is possible, with up to several thousand more for any recovery (you pay the full recovery cost for every byte recovered, even if you can't use it). That's as much "tech help" as you're going to get anywhere.

 

[USAFRet]

This is about the only thing I can think of that may have a chance.

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But...whether this works or not...please please please undo this RAID, and just have them as two individual 8TB drives.

And then, start a comprehensive, automated, backup routine.