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Need RAID 1 Help PLEASE!

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Staticax

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Here's what's up.

I'm doing an upgrade.

Before I had 2 HDDs each independent drives.

I am adding 2 more HDDs, and want these two to be in a Raid 1 setup as a 3rd non-boot drive (according to my OS).

So, I installed everything onto my new mobo:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128519

and setup a hardware raid in the BIOS.

At first I had issues because it was trying to make the raid the boot disk, but I fixed this and loaded up into my original windows instalation. As you would expect, windows did not see any new drives.

I did my computer > manage > etc

and setup the new two HDDs as a 1TB dynamic drive and simple volume. Formatted.

At this point, it looked like I was golden! So I started moving some data onto the disc.

I wanted to test the raid and my data, and make sure it was secure incase of a spindel failure, so I turned my PC off and unplugged one of the HDDs in the raid setup.

Rebooted, windows showed the drive full of data - AWESOME!

Wanted to check the other drive, turned off my pc, swapped the plugs, and rebooted.

Windows shows me an EMPTY DRIVE!

SHIT! Help?
 
Once you enabled RAID in the BIOS and exited you have to create the volume. Usually you are prompted to hit Ctrl+C. Did you do this?
 
Yeah, actually..

to side-tail first, I gotta rant about that board. I literally had to push the reset button, monitor button, and power button in various orders and timings just to get into the BIOS! Literally, 20 different tries haha.. My machine just posted way too fast and was trying to load windows before I even saw anything on screen! and just blindly hitting delete didn't work without SEEING the post.. lame.

But yes, I did hit ctrl+c and set the raid up according to the user-manual I received.

Are you saying that since I had to create a simple volume in the My Computer > Disk Management that perhaps my ctrl+c thing failed?

Should I perhaps just forget about doing the hardware raid and try to format them using windows XP software raid? I read a little about the soft vs hard debate.. and soft doesn't seem to be at a disadvantage?

I'm kind of in a hurry to get this all done, I did a huge computer upgrade and actually bought a legit version of Windows for the first time in my life (haha) and have yet been able to install it! It's been sitting on my desk for a week, and the only experience I have with W7 thus far are the highly secure and limited computers on campus. So far, W7 looks awesome and I want to really dig into it!

I gotta backup this data off my main boot-disk so I can format it and install a fresh clean slate of W7!

If anyone wants to help and think it would be easier via chat, please add me on FB! I will appreciate you, and it's always good to feel appreciated, right?

http://www.facebook.com/derickoleo

I'm a long-term computer geek, but have never messed with raid. I really don't think I understand it enough to dig in and try to fix it, but I will in a bit if I can't get help. I just don't see where I went wrong in my setup.
 
setup the new two HDDs as a 1TB dynamic drive and simple volume.
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I didn't read any farther because dynamic drives will give a novice nothing but trouble.

You have many issues but my suggestion is to install w7 on a seperate drive with no other drives connected at the time and go from there.

I don't do any PMing or FaceBooking but maybe you'll run across someone who will.

Get W7 installed and read about setting-up RAID1.

Good Luck!
 
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