So I had an ASRock 970 Extreme4 mainboard. I setup a Raid 0 array using two 1 TB HDDs. Blew up the board, replaced it with a cheap Asus M5A 78L-M board. Both of them were AM2/AM3/AM3+ boards.
Today I got a new board in, an MSI Z170A gaming M5 board. Other than the horribly non-intuitive BIOS screen, it seems to be working fine. Except it refuses to recognize my Raid 0 array, which has all my programs and some data on it.
The raid configuration tool sees both drives, as well as my SSD and the two smaller HDDs I use for backing up more sensitive data. It gives me the option to create a new array from the existing drives, but I'm afraid that's going to delete all my existing files. The mainboard manual says nothing about using specific SATA ports like my old board, but I tried using ports 1 and 2 (and reversing them to 2/1), and ports 5 and 6, with no luck.
I could always plug the array back into the old board long enough to recover any critical data (mainly things like my Fallout 4 mod profiles that aren't exactly life-shattering), but re-acquiring all the software is going to take several weeks on my crappy internet, and possibly a couple months depending on how much Amazon/Netflix my room-mates are watching.
I'm contemplating just buying a like 3 TB single drive, plugging everything into the old board, copying the entire array to the single drive, reformatting the array on the new board, then copying it back over. But that's like a week waiting for the parts to get here just so I can use my computer.
So I'm hoping someone knows something I don't about getting the new board to recognize the old array as is.
Today I got a new board in, an MSI Z170A gaming M5 board. Other than the horribly non-intuitive BIOS screen, it seems to be working fine. Except it refuses to recognize my Raid 0 array, which has all my programs and some data on it.
The raid configuration tool sees both drives, as well as my SSD and the two smaller HDDs I use for backing up more sensitive data. It gives me the option to create a new array from the existing drives, but I'm afraid that's going to delete all my existing files. The mainboard manual says nothing about using specific SATA ports like my old board, but I tried using ports 1 and 2 (and reversing them to 2/1), and ports 5 and 6, with no luck.
I could always plug the array back into the old board long enough to recover any critical data (mainly things like my Fallout 4 mod profiles that aren't exactly life-shattering), but re-acquiring all the software is going to take several weeks on my crappy internet, and possibly a couple months depending on how much Amazon/Netflix my room-mates are watching.
I'm contemplating just buying a like 3 TB single drive, plugging everything into the old board, copying the entire array to the single drive, reformatting the array on the new board, then copying it back over. But that's like a week waiting for the parts to get here just so I can use my computer.
So I'm hoping someone knows something I don't about getting the new board to recognize the old array as is.
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