RAID 0 shows as "raw" in windows 7 after CMOS/Bios reset

[Eclectic1989]

I had to reset my bios after a failed overclocking attempt, and by default the storage type in bios was changed to ahci. I changed it back to raid, and the rom-utility (AMD rom utility, AMD_RAIDAHCI driver)shows my volume as "functionial", and with the same volume name as before. However in windows the volume shows as "raw" in disk managment, and thus not accesable.

Is there any way get back the volume as it was?

I have not altered anything hardware related.

My setup is:
Motherboard: ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
Hard Disks: OCZ-Agility4 (system disk)
WDC WD30EZRX
WDC WD20EARS (currently in raid 0)
WDC WD20EZRX (currently in raid 0)
And running windows 7 pro.

 

[drtweak]

Ooooo yeaaa....See THIS is why i have a seperate controller for running raid and not onboard raid controller.

1) Resetting Bios ALSO reset the RAID!!!
2) When remake the raid it also doesn't come back the way it was. Which is why it is reading as RAW.

You will need to use a recovery program if you don't have backups to get your data. ALWAYS have backups!!! ESPECIALLY WITH RAID 0!!!

If there is nothing important on there you will just have to repartition and format the drive. If you want to get your data back DON"T DO THAT or INITILIZE it though the RAID settings! Or try deleing or recreating it!

Download Recuva here. Its free. Try that at least for now and see what you can get back.

http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download/slim

 

[Eclectic1989]

Ooooo yeaaa....See THIS is why i have a seperate controller for running raid and not onboard raid controller.

1) Resetting Bios ALSO reset the RAID!!!
2) When remake the raid it also doesn't come back the way it was. Which is why it is reading as RAW.

You will need to use a recovery program if you don't have backups to get your data. ALWAYS have backups!!! ESPECIALLY WITH RAID 0!!!

If there is nothing important on there you will just have to repartition and format the drive. If you want to get your data back DON"T DO THAT or INITILIZE it though the RAID settings! Or try deleing or recreating it!

Download Recuva here. Its free. Try that at least for now and see what you can get back.

http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download/slim

Well, the disk reads as raw, so i cannot use Recuva unless i reformat the drive to ntfs or something, at least from what i can gather from the program, you can only recover files from drives with a drive letter... But i did not recreate the raid setup after the bios cleared. It was still saved, with the specific logical disk name as before. So that should indicate that the metadata is still intact?

 

[drtweak]

Yes it should. I had the same issue a while back though with my Nvida Raid. I went to make a RAID 1. Well wanted to erase all data on both disk. I backed out. My drive back back as a RAW. Had to use Power Data Recovery to get all my files back.

 

[Eclectic1989]

Damn... If this is true, raid 0 really sucks. It's a long time since i created the raid volume, but i think it is striped, and in that case recovery wont work right?

 

[drtweak]

IF and I mean IF you may still be able to since its Raw. if it was a new Raid it was show as Unpartitioned. Also RAID 0 has 0 Fault Tolerance. You lose a drive your scrwed. I have a Raid 0 of 2 2TB drives but i have a 4TB that i have as a backup (Exact Image) drive.

 

[dgingeri]

You need to go into the BIOS and set the storage controller to RAID mode. It should see those drives as belonging to the RAID 0 set and pick up as if nothing happened, as long as you haven't done anything to them in the mean time. All the onboard RAID controllers I have worked with keep the RAID info on the drives, so it will recover as long as you haven't overwritten it.

 

[drtweak]

If you read the first post he did do that.