[SOLVED] New to RAID Cant see the RAID drive

[BeeEnn]

Hello All,

This is my first post in this forum and I'm new to RAID. We had a Windows 7 with RAID ( I guess it was RAID 5, not sure as I inherited the system). The partition is gone because of TWO corrupt drives I guess. There were four 4TB drives i the RAID

The MegaRAID controller doesn't show anything as well. See 2nd pic.

I'm unable to get into the WEBIOS while booting. This is an ASUS board and I guess F8 works instead of the prompted CTRL-H to get into WEBIOS, as I read here:

https://www.garyshood.com/lsi-megaraid/

if use F8 I get the following menu, no sign of RAID menu(THE SSD is the windows boot) Can anybody suggest how to get into the WEBIOS ?
Thanks

 

[SkyNetRising]

And what do you want to do there?
If you had raid from 4 drives (raid 0 or raid 5) and 3 of those drives are lost, then your data is gone.
Break the raid and repurpose remaining drive. There's nothing else to do.

 

[BeeEnn]

I guess two drives went bad,as I ran CrystalDiskInfo on them, but can I still access the WEBIOS to see what the RAID controller says about the drives?

 

[USAFRet]

( I guess it was RAID 5, not sure as I inherited the system). The partition is gone because of TWO corrupt drives I guess.

2 dead drives from a RAID 5 = poof...all data gone.

Format whatever drives may be left and use them for whatever. That data is gone.

 

[BeeEnn]

I'm not worried if the data is gone. I want to know that if I'm missing something about the diagnosis., like the two HDDs I mentioned went really wrong, and to know is there a way to look into the WEBIOS. Or is it so, that because the RAID is gone I can't see the WEBIOS?

But again if I need to reinstall two new HDDs I need WEBIOS to recreate a new RAID partition from scratch I guess. So, is there any way to get the WEBIOS?

Thanks

 

[USAFRet]

What is your goal here?

To recreate whatever unknown RAID this was?
To retrieve the data?
To have individual functional drives?
To create a new RAID(x) array?

 

[BeeEnn]

As I've inherited the system and dont know anything about the prior problems , I want to see the error messages from the RAID controller, which drives went wrong by myself. I'm assuming by just Disk health checking that two particular drives were bad, but want to see actual RAID report on them.
That nothing is showing up mean that the two drives went corrupt and RAID is lost?

Then , I can think about replacing whichever drives are necessary to build another RAID system, data retrieval is not important as most data is backed up.

 

[USAFRet]

Why the desire for a new RAID array?
What is this system used for?

RAID is not a data backup solution.

 

[BeeEnn]

I might go for a new RAID array, as I've spare drives available, but first I want to look which drives went bad.
The system is used for scientific computing


I still wish to go to the WEBIOS and see the status of the logical/physical drive and their status, in the given state of the system, is it possible?

 

[USAFRet]

Disregard the existing/former RAID thing.
Run diagnostics on each physical drive, individually.
Toss the bad ones.

Moving forward...for any RAID thing, you need to know which type you might want to use, what it is and is not good for, and more importantly, why.
And you absolutely need a full 100% backup of all data, preferably the entire volume. And know how to recover that.