Three Seagate drives unrecongized after raid 0 failed

danoASUS

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This is an odd issue I'm having with three seagate 2 TB drives. A little background which is a bit long winded. I built new computer with:
- ASUS Z97-WS mobo
- i7 4790K chip.
Drives
1 - Intel 480 GB SSD (boot/os)
3 - Seagate 2 TB as Windows 10 software striped raid 0 (storage)
2 - Samsung 1 TB as Windows 10 software striped raid 0 (storage)

I was runnin 24/7 for about three months. One morning computer not running
Went through number steps to pinopoint problem blah blah. Turns out after new mobo, powersupply, the problem was cpu failed.

I'd already sent WS mobo in for RMA not realizing that board was probably okay, but CPU was culprit. I received new CPU and while waiting for ASUS-WS mobo, I had extra ASUS z97a mobo so tried to get up and running again.
Everything is working, except all my Seagate 2 TB drives are not seen in bios or Windows Disk Management. I can see all the SSD drives fine.

I'v switched power, sata cables around and nothing. SSD drives work on any sata port, but none of Seagate drives show up. Can't believe all three Seagate drives went bad. I'm thinking the software raid 0 did something to the drives where they are unrecongized.

My question is could this be possible? The software raid 0 ruined my drives? If yes, is it possible to fix with 3rd party utility?
Thanks in advance for this strange problem
Dan
 
Solution
XP can see any size drive but can only utilize up to 2TB using MBR as it doesn't support GPT.

That is odd thought that disk managmenet isn't picking them up. Does the XP machine see them in the BIOS?
Possibly, but I tried to activate the striped volume in Windows Disk Management and couldn't do it so deleted the volume since I had the data backed up. Thought the drives should show up again as unallocated so I could start all over again. But can't see the drives at all anymore...
 


I did try in an old XP box and nothing there, but probably need to try in Win7 64bit. Don't think 32bit XP can see 2 TB drives.