[Ham-Computers] Recognizing SATA drives from failed RAID array

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Mike,

That might work but if the Asus RAID system is like the Intel one on the 
system board here, I think you may have made a fatal mistake when you deleted 
the RAID array.  The OS (whatever you are using) won't recognise the RAID 
drive.  

You didn't say what the error message you got from the RAID controller was 
but unless it indicated that both drives had failed, I suspect you should 
have tried to run with the remaining good drive, or checked in BIOS to see 
what your repair or recovery options were.  The only value of a RAID 1 array is 
that you can survive a one drive failure without losing everything.  It's 
happened here once, on the D-drive.  I determined which drive had failed 
(which happened after only a few days of operation), replaced it, and let the 
controller rebuild the array.

All I could suggest is to turn the RAID controller back on with both drives 
where they were and see whether it will come back up without reformatting 
the good drive.

In a message dated 8/23/2009 11:34:38 AM Central Daylight Time, 
24.driver at gmail.com writes: 
> Get a USB to SATA Adapter and attach one of the drive(s) as an external 
> drive...
> 
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Mike D.<hrg at cifnet.com> wrote:
> >Asus A8V Deluxe Motherboard
> >Windows XP Pro
> >
> >I had two Seagate 250 GB SATA hard drives on the Promise controller in 
> RAID
> >1 (mirroring). There was also a Maxtor 300 GB SATA drive on the VIA
> >controller for data storage. The system booted from the RAID array.
> >
> >There was a critical RAID array failure. I deleted the RAID array in BIOS
> >and tried to boot from one of the Seagate drives. Neither drive allowed 
> me
> >to boot. I tried to repair the Windows XP OS and that didn't work. I
> >installed a new 1 tb Seagate SATA drive on the Promise controller as a
> 
> >
> >I want to bring the data from the former RAID drives to the new 1 TB boot
> >drive. I would appreciate your suggestions. Thank you.
> >
> 

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