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Tommy313
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Is my RAID 10 volume lost ?

#1 Post by Tommy313 »

Hi everyone,

i had 4x1TB drives set as a RAID10 volume in my ASUS MB's intel BIOS (ICH9R). Also set up in Win7 matrix storage manager.

then i detached the 4x1TB drives and attached 2 new 2TB drives.

only then i deleted the "old" RAID in Intel BIOS and defined a new RAID1 for the 2 new 2TB drives.

My question is wheter i can re-attach my "old" RAID and directly access my files without doing a complete recovery.

I might have saved an earlier state of the whole BIOS to a preset in bios setup. Does that help?

many thanks
Joe

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Re: Is my RAID 10 volume lost ?

#2 Post by cgrenier »

It should be ok if you reconnect all your disks. If the BIOS does not detect the correct configuration, you have two possibilities:
- boot from a Linux cdrom/dvd, use the program "fakeraid" to detect the Raid parameters and mount your partitions
- or in the BIOS setup, restore exactly the old parameters

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Re: Is my RAID 10 volume lost ?

#3 Post by Tommy313 »

so, i re-attached the 4x 1tb drives in the same order and BIOS recognized them ;) .

thx cgrenier

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