Hello all, any help would be much appreciated.
I got two 40GB HDD's that I configured to RAID 0
Thinking I was going to increase performance, I installed Windows 8 on the RAID volume only to discover they were only SATA I and a lot slower than my previous non-RAID HDD configuration.
I then transfered all of my personal data onto the RAID volume, which took forever.
Once all of my important data was safe, I reinstalled Windows 8 back onto the non-RAID volume.
After that, I transferred all of my data back into my fresh, speedy, non-RAID configuration of old.
Wanting to use the two 40GB HDD's as just additional storage volumes, I went into the Option ROM Utility to delete the RAID 0 volume.
Now I cannot boot to my normal non-RAID configuration.
I've tried using the automatic repair function built into the Windows 8 installation disc to no avail.
I also tried forcing a safeboot via the CMD interface function.
I even got desperate and attempted to perform a system refresh only to have it tell me that my volume is locked and that I need to unlock it.
I googled how to do such a thing and tried disabling CSM (an option) and disabling secure boot to no avail, (which seemingly isn't an option in my m5A99FX Pro R2.0's UEFI).
I've also tried every combination of the repair functions attempted with various SATA Configurations under the Advanced tab of UEFI.
I've considered just reinstalling Windows 8 on one of the 40GB drives and try to access my files from there, but I can't even get the installer to recognize them and it doesn't seem like I should need RAID drivers anymore since I deleted the RAID volume. Is there also a way to format the ex-RAID 0 configuration to get them back to a standard state or something? I'm terrified of losing my data, which includes literally years worth of my work. Normally I don't worry because it's not difficult for me to extract data from a deleted partition, but this whole 'locked' nonsense has got me worried and kicking myself in the ass for not backing up before trying this RAID nonsense, which I thought was less buggy from everything I read. I really don't have any idea what to do at this point other than maybe removing all but one of the 40GB drives and trying to work with it and get it to try to take an OS install, but after that, I'm not even sure if it will recognize my other drive in this locked state. IMHO, locking people out of their own data like this with no warning or explanation should be illegal. Any help would be a life saver and EXTREMELY APPRECIATED.
I got two 40GB HDD's that I configured to RAID 0
Thinking I was going to increase performance, I installed Windows 8 on the RAID volume only to discover they were only SATA I and a lot slower than my previous non-RAID HDD configuration.
I then transfered all of my personal data onto the RAID volume, which took forever.
Once all of my important data was safe, I reinstalled Windows 8 back onto the non-RAID volume.
After that, I transferred all of my data back into my fresh, speedy, non-RAID configuration of old.
Wanting to use the two 40GB HDD's as just additional storage volumes, I went into the Option ROM Utility to delete the RAID 0 volume.
Now I cannot boot to my normal non-RAID configuration.
I've tried using the automatic repair function built into the Windows 8 installation disc to no avail.
I also tried forcing a safeboot via the CMD interface function.
I even got desperate and attempted to perform a system refresh only to have it tell me that my volume is locked and that I need to unlock it.
I googled how to do such a thing and tried disabling CSM (an option) and disabling secure boot to no avail, (which seemingly isn't an option in my m5A99FX Pro R2.0's UEFI).
I've also tried every combination of the repair functions attempted with various SATA Configurations under the Advanced tab of UEFI.
I've considered just reinstalling Windows 8 on one of the 40GB drives and try to access my files from there, but I can't even get the installer to recognize them and it doesn't seem like I should need RAID drivers anymore since I deleted the RAID volume. Is there also a way to format the ex-RAID 0 configuration to get them back to a standard state or something? I'm terrified of losing my data, which includes literally years worth of my work. Normally I don't worry because it's not difficult for me to extract data from a deleted partition, but this whole 'locked' nonsense has got me worried and kicking myself in the ass for not backing up before trying this RAID nonsense, which I thought was less buggy from everything I read. I really don't have any idea what to do at this point other than maybe removing all but one of the 40GB drives and trying to work with it and get it to try to take an OS install, but after that, I'm not even sure if it will recognize my other drive in this locked state. IMHO, locking people out of their own data like this with no warning or explanation should be illegal. Any help would be a life saver and EXTREMELY APPRECIATED.