- Nov 23, 2023
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About 8-10 years ago, I built a computer and for reasons that I cannot now begin to fathom, I decided to set up a Raid 0 array on three of the HDDs inside of it. I also had a separate HDD drive that was not part of the array and an M2 drive with Windows on it. Having realized that the Raid 0 set up was not optimal, I've tried to make backups of it fairly regularly, as well as of the separate HDD drive, but today I got kind of careless and messed around with the hardware without having backed up for a couple weeks.
Today I decided to swap out the separate HDD drive for one with larger capacity. Since it was not part of the raid array, I figured it wouldn't make a difference if I just switched it. However, after the switch, the Raid 0 drives have disappeared. They don't show up in Device Manager or Disk Management in Windows at all. When I go into BIOS, though, I can see them.
This may or may not be related, but I upgraded the BIOS firmware a couple weeks ago. After the update, the drives continued to be accessible and function as normal. I was regularly copying files to and from them without a problem until today. When I updated BIOS, I noticed that the hard drives are not set up as RAID drives in BIOS and Intel Rapid Storage Technology is off. They have been off and the drives have been set up as AHCI since I upgraded a few weeks ago without any issue.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to get into the drives and back up a few things. Almost everything is backed up elsewhere, but there's a couple things from the past few weeks that I didn't have a chance to back up and there might be things on there that I've forgotten about that haven't been backed up.
I have the option of putting the drives into a Sabrent 5-bay enclosure. I'm wondering if I put them in there if I'd be able to run recovery software and rebuild the raid controller? Then I could back up what I need to and format them afterward, then just use them as separate drives instead of messing around with this RAID business. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Today I decided to swap out the separate HDD drive for one with larger capacity. Since it was not part of the raid array, I figured it wouldn't make a difference if I just switched it. However, after the switch, the Raid 0 drives have disappeared. They don't show up in Device Manager or Disk Management in Windows at all. When I go into BIOS, though, I can see them.
This may or may not be related, but I upgraded the BIOS firmware a couple weeks ago. After the update, the drives continued to be accessible and function as normal. I was regularly copying files to and from them without a problem until today. When I updated BIOS, I noticed that the hard drives are not set up as RAID drives in BIOS and Intel Rapid Storage Technology is off. They have been off and the drives have been set up as AHCI since I upgraded a few weeks ago without any issue.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to get into the drives and back up a few things. Almost everything is backed up elsewhere, but there's a couple things from the past few weeks that I didn't have a chance to back up and there might be things on there that I've forgotten about that haven't been backed up.
I have the option of putting the drives into a Sabrent 5-bay enclosure. I'm wondering if I put them in there if I'd be able to run recovery software and rebuild the raid controller? Then I could back up what I need to and format them afterward, then just use them as separate drives instead of messing around with this RAID business. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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