Will Turing raid back on wipe my drives

[8bitgamer8]

I have a pc with two drives set to raid mirror.
After a year of use the motherboard failed and sent it in for a free repair/replacement.
When I hooked it back up it would not recognize the raid I had already set up anymore.
It booted fine to windows on the drive.
Is there a way to turn raid back on without wiping the drives? As they have important software on them that is given very limited installs. And I cant waste one as it's very expensive.

 

[engineer5261]

As far as I know, you will have to re-format during windows install to create a Raid Array

 

[8bitgamer8]

I'm surprised we still have not made a way for this to work. I mean I understand not being able to do other raids after the fact but a mirror raid is literally the other drive copy pasted. And these drives were already in mirror befor just the fixed motherboard does not know this. What's the point of mirroring when it fails to stay mirrored.
Now I have no back up and a wasted drive and no more security for future issues. Unless I'm willing to throw away money by using up another install of this software.

 

[engineer5261]

Talk to the software company. I'm sure they will understand and hopefully hook you up with a free install. Maybe invest in a backup/crash plan software as well as having your raid config

 

[USAFRet]

I'm surprised we still have not made a way for this to work. I mean I understand not being able to do other raids after the fact but a mirror raid is literally the other drive copy pasted. And these drives were already in mirror befor just the fixed motherboard does not know this. What's the point of mirroring when it fails to stay mirrored.
Now I have no back up and a wasted drive and no more security for future issues. Unless I'm willing to throw away money by using up another install of this software.

The way to do this, RAID 1, 0, JBOD, single drives....is with a true backup.
RAID 1 is not a backup.

A drive dies? Slot in another one, rebuild the RAID array, and port your data back in.
If any of the 5 drives in my main system, or the 8 drives in or attached to the NAS box, were to die right now...no data loss, and no losing any application installs.

 

[engineer5261]

I'm surprised we still have not made a way for this to work. I mean I understand not being able to do other raids after the fact but a mirror raid is literally the other drive copy pasted. And these drives were already in mirror befor just the fixed motherboard does not know this. What's the point of mirroring when it fails to stay mirrored.
Now I have no back up and a wasted drive and no more security for future issues. Unless I'm willing to throw away money by using up another install of this software.

The way to do this, RAID 1, 0, JBOD, single drives....is with a true backup.
RAID 1 is not a backup.

A drive dies? Slot in another one, rebuild the RAID array, and port your data back in.
If any of the 5 drives in my main system, or the 8 drives in or attached to the NAS box, were to die right now...no data loss, and no losing any application installs.

That's right. That's also why I suggested to invest in a backup solution.

 

[8bitgamer8]

Except that fails to fix the issue. The point of having mirror is so you dont have to reinstall your os and all the software if a drive fails. But neither drive failed and now I'm being told that I have to reinstall everything to avoid having to reinstall everything if a drive fails. Thus defeating the point. Why dont I just wait for the one drive to fail and reinstall everything then sence I'm being forced to any way.
I literally gain nothing by wiping the drives at this point and lose one of the installs. And I do have off computer back ups of all the important things. But you cant have an off pc backup of a full install really so that to would not solve this.

 

[USAFRet]

Except that fails to fix the issue. The point of having mirror is so you dont have to reinstall your os and all the software if a drive fails. But neither drive failed and now I'm being told that I have to reinstall everything to avoid having to reinstall everything if a drive fails. Thus defeating the point. Why dont I just wait for the one drive to fail and reinstall everything then sence I'm being forced to any way.
I literally gain nothing by wiping the drives at this point and lose one of the installs. And I do have off computer back ups of all the important things. But you cant have an off pc backup of a full install really so that to would not solve this.

It's not just the drive that might fail, but also the RAID controller. In this case, the motherboard.

A proper backup routine would have prevented this, no matter what part of the RAID array failed.
I know that's painful to hear, but that's pretty much the way it is.

RAID, of any type, is not a backup.

I have Images, Full and Incremental/Differential, of all of my drives on all of my systems.
The only thing that would possibly prompt a reinstall of the OS and applications is a motherboard replacement. That often requires a full reinstall, RAID or no RAID.

Any other disaster...easily recoverable.

In your case, the motherboard RAID does not want to recognize your drives in their current state.
I can't see any way around it except for a complete reinstall.

Maybe some others will chime in with a solution, but I do not know one.

But you cant have an off pc backup of a full install really so that to would not solve this.

Incorrect. You absolutely can.
A full drive image does exactly this.

For instance, my main system has 5 drives. This system gets its own backup folder in the NAS box. Each drive gets its own subfolder.
A Full Image, and then 2 weeks of Incremental images.
That C drive (OS and applications), or any of the other drives, can be recovered from any date in the last 2 weeks.
Again, though...this does not necessarily count for a motherboard replacement, which might necessitate a full reinstall anyway. And this is without the RAID 1 you have.
Your motherboard RAID 1 just complicates things.

My backup procedure:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3383768/backup-situation-home.html