RAID Help after RMA - Maximus III Formula

[T_REX]

I recently RMA'd my board and got the replacement installed. Upon initial boot up, I was prompted to setup the BIOS and largely left it at defaults, except to tell it I had a RAID on the main SATA connectors.

Then I missed the Prompt to set up the RAID and the machine booted and started installing driver updates (local only, no network connected).

My full setup is listed below, but for the HDs I had a SSD as the main drive, then two 2TB HDs in RAID 1. Those two drives in the RAID 1 were then partitioned into multiple drives clear storage purposes. Now when I boot up the machine without the RAID controller set up, I still see all those drives, but I know the RAID isn't set up. I don't see an extra 2 TB drive anywhere or two of each drive.

If I just go into the RAID set up and select the two drives for RAID 1, will it just go back to normal or will it reformat everything for the RAID set up?


Here is my rig:
Intel Core i7 860
4GB (2x2GB)GSkill DDR3-1600 [F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ]
ASUS Maximus III Formula BIOS v1202
Saphire Radeon HD5850 1GB GDDR5
2x2TB Hitachi Deskstars in RAID 1
160 GB Intel x25M Gen2 Boot Drive
Pioneer BDR-205 Blu-Ray/Multi Burner/Reader
Windows 7 Pro 64 bit

[HiVizMan]

You can go back into the raid utility and it should offer you the option to select rebuild raid.

[T_REX]

OK, here is the weird thing - when I hit CTRL I and bring the RAID controller screen up, it says none of my drives are RAID drives. I tried to do a recovery, but it says there is no RAID disc to recover.

Yet when windows comes up, it's like my RAID is there. It sees all the drive partitions and the data and only reports the size as half of what is physically there (as it should in RAID 1).

[HiVizMan]

Well that is good I guess.

When you use the Intel management software are you able to rebuild your RAID I would have thought you could do that.

[Grnfinger]

What's set in bios? Ahci or raid.
I see no reason for the array not to rebuild unless you have a dead/faulty drive or port.

[KILLER_K]

Are you using the same controller as they was on before? Intel or the Marvel/J-Micron port? Thanks

[T_REX]

In BIOS I have it selected for RAID. After the initial BIOS screen, you then get the RAID controller screen. Normally, the RAID screen would just report the array and you go on to boot up. Well, even when I go into the RAID set up via CTRL I, it says there is no RAID and I have no RAID drives (It does see the 3 drives I have installed).

I am using the same Intel connectors as before - in fact, I have them in the same plug with same cable connected to same drive.


Now the really weird part is that once Win7 boots up, I DO have the RAID active and it works!

[HiVizMan]

Ok that just makes no sense to me at all.