Raid 5 issues after reinstalling windows 10

[Rockyzach88]

TIFU

I decided to clean the dust out of my PC today. Once I got it back together, my computer would not detect the SSD boot drive I have.

After hours of troubleshooting and making a thread on here that nobody responded to, I decided to reinstall windows on another SSD harddrive I have.

Upon installation when it asked what hard drive to install it on I made sure to select the SSD. I also have 3 1 TB hdds that are in a RAID 5.

After installing Windows 10 again and looking into Disk Management this is what I'm seeing:

https://imgur.com/a/Iop2dZR

Unless I'm mistaking it is showing my 3 hdds in some weird configuration and with all the free space available. Did windows 10 re-install delete my hard drives? I noticed in BIOS one of those hdds has "Window Boot Manager" on it. I never once selected any of those drives to have any windows files on them at all during the installation.

 

[jojesa]

TIFU

I decided to clean the dust out of my PC today. Once I got it back together, my computer would not detect the SSD boot drive I have.

After hours of troubleshooting and making a thread on here that nobody responded to, I decided to reinstall windows on another SSD harddrive I have.

Upon installation when it asked what hard drive to install it on I made sure to select the SSD. I also have 3 1 TB hdds that are in a RAID 5.

After installing Windows 10 again and looking into Disk Management this is what I'm seeing:

https://imgur.com/a/Iop2dZR

Unless I'm mistaking it is showing my 3 hdds in some weird configuration and with all the free space available. Did windows 10 re-install delete my hard drives? I noticed in BIOS one of those hdds has "Window Boot Manager" on it. I never once selected any of those drives to have any windows files on them at all during the installation.

When you install Windows 10 with several disk connected and available, Windows might write data to any of them during setup. Even if you select a different disk for the main Boot primary partition.
I usually disconnect or disable in BIOS all disk and just leave one disk, the one I want Windows to use.
I don't see where the 'Boot Primary' partition is located on that image, but I see that the 'Recovery' and 'EFI System' partitions were written to disk 1

 

[rgd1101]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from Rockyzach88 : "SSD boot drive not recognized by bios after cleaning PC."

To start out with I just want to say I did not unplug or mess with my hdds and ssds at all during cleaning. I cleaned my radiator, its fans, and the case fans so the computer could breathe better. It's been 5 years.

Anyway, I have 3 1TB hdds in a raid 5, a 128GB ssd (my boot drive that has win 10), and a 500 GB ssd just for storage.

I put everything back together, plug my power supply back into the wall, and turned on the PC. Instantly I notice it is doing something difference. The backlight on my main monitor comes on, but the screen is black. It sits there for a while and finally flashes a screen that says "no physical disk". I'm pretty sure that screen usually shows my 128 GB ssd name (samsung 840 pro....). Since I have boot settings on the fast setting, it zooms past that screen quickly, flashes the screen that shows my detected sata drives, and then shows a black screen with the words "Reboot and Select proper boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key".

I restart the PC and get into the BIOS and check the sata drives to see what is detected. Every drive including my dvd drive is detected except my 128 GB ssd with my OS on it. I read a suggestion about restoring bios settings to default so I do that and restart. The screens no longer flash real fast for obvious reason but the drive is still not detected. I switched the sata data cables and the power cables with the other ssd and the computer detects the 500 GB ssd in the new port but still will not detect the 128 GB ssd. I tried moving the sata data cable to other ports on the motherboard as well.

Is this thing mostly likely fried? I don't see how it could have broke. Or is the bios and ssd just having an argument? If it is, whats the best way of reinstalling windows since I have no windows install disc? Thanks for your time and I appreciate any help.

 

[Rockyzach88]

So it turns out I needed to set the SATA configuration to RAID and then let the RAID rebuild. Before I did this I actually reinstalled windows again on the SSD with the RAID HDDs unplugged. Then after plugging them back in and CNTRL-I to let them rebuild, I "identified foreign drive" or something like that in Disk Management. This restored my RAID and luckfully it seems none of my data was erased.

I have no solution to the merged question that I made earlier.