Windows can "see" my RAID 0 but not mount it - Help!

greensha · 02-19-2007, 06:55 AM

Hello All,

My system (in brief):
ASUS P4C800E-Deluxe
RAID 0 running on the Intel ICH5R

I did a stupid thing over the weekend. I installed an XP update on friday night and when I rebooted my RAID was missing. The <ctrl-I> screen didn't show up either. To cut a long story short my BIOS had been reset some how. Unfortunately I was too stupid to realise this straight away and I ended up plugging my RAID into the Promise controller in the hope that it would then show up (I knew at the time this was a dumb thing to do). Anyway, on Satuday morning I realised that the "Enable boot ROM" had not been set.

The upshot of all this is that I ended up buying an IDE drive, installing XP on it and trying to get my RAID to mount. <crtl-I> shows my RAID is good. Windows recognises that there is a drive there (when I check in the system utils) but I can't mount the drive. I ran VirtualLab and it found the RAID and said it could recover the files (for $400).

I'm sure there has to be a simple way I can get the RAID to mount. I probably need to load the Intel drivers using the F6, right? I didn't do this because at the time I couldn't figure out how to make the floppy. It's suprisingly hard to find the right info on the web.

Does anyone have any ideas about how I can fix my problem?

Thanks in advance,

Andy

crazijoe · 02-19-2007, 08:02 AM

Hello and welcome to TSF.
Well the first problem is that you cannot make a RAID array that was created on the Intel controller work on the Promise controller. If any drives, that was in the original RAID 0 array, was disrupted, you will not be able to bring back that array because the array was broken.

You may still be able to get the array back on line as long as the BIOS still sees it as an actual RAID 0 array. You may be able to do a repair installation of WinXP and get back you old OS. But you still need to load the RAID drivers at the F6 prompt.

The motherboard should have came with a CD that contains the drivers that you can put on a floppy.

greensha · 02-19-2007, 08:38 AM

Thanks for the quick reply. I knew when I was plugging the drives into the Promise controller it was a bad idea. I did get a CD with drivers that came with the MB but I can't find the utility to make the floppy. I don't recall now how I did it when I originally put the machine together. I'm assuming there is a web site that has what I need but I've searched both the ASUS and Intel sites and not found what I was looking for.

crazijoe · 02-19-2007, 09:06 AM

try these drivers.

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri...ional&lang=eng

02-19-2007, 06:55 AM	#1 (permalink)
greensha Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 2 OS: XP	Windows can "see" my RAID 0 but not mount it - Help! Hello All, My system (in brief): ASUS P4C800E-Deluxe RAID 0 running on the Intel ICH5R I did a stupid thing over the weekend. I installed an XP update on friday night and when I rebooted my RAID was missing. The <ctrl-I> screen didn't show up either. To cut a long story short my BIOS had been reset some how. Unfortunately I was too stupid to realise this straight away and I ended up plugging my RAID into the Promise controller in the hope that it would then show up (I knew at the time this was a dumb thing to do). Anyway, on Satuday morning I realised that the "Enable boot ROM" had not been set. The upshot of all this is that I ended up buying an IDE drive, installing XP on it and trying to get my RAID to mount. <crtl-I> shows my RAID is good. Windows recognises that there is a drive there (when I check in the system utils) but I can't mount the drive. I ran VirtualLab and it found the RAID and said it could recover the files (for $400). I'm sure there has to be a simple way I can get the RAID to mount. I probably need to load the Intel drivers using the F6, right? I didn't do this because at the time I couldn't figure out how to make the floppy. It's suprisingly hard to find the right info on the web. Does anyone have any ideas about how I can fix my problem? Thanks in advance, Andy

02-19-2007, 08:02 AM	#2 (permalink)
crazijoe Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Omaha, The Center of the Universe Posts: 7,632 OS: WinXP, Win2K3 My System	Hello and welcome to TSF. Well the first problem is that you cannot make a RAID array that was created on the Intel controller work on the Promise controller. If any drives, that was in the original RAID 0 array, was disrupted, you will not be able to bring back that array because the array was broken. You may still be able to get the array back on line as long as the BIOS still sees it as an actual RAID 0 array. You may be able to do a repair installation of WinXP and get back you old OS. But you still need to load the RAID drivers at the F6 prompt. The motherboard should have came with a CD that contains the drivers that you can put on a floppy. __________________ Microsoft MCSA + Messaging, MVP, A+, Network+ http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3...other/Help.jpg Do you want a real Republican? HDD diagnostic tools / HDD data recovery software

02-19-2007, 09:06 AM	#4 (permalink)
crazijoe Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Omaha, The Center of the Universe Posts: 7,632 OS: WinXP, Win2K3 My System	try these drivers. http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri...ional&lang=eng __________________ Microsoft MCSA + Messaging, MVP, A+, Network+ http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3...other/Help.jpg Do you want a real Republican? HDD diagnostic tools / HDD data recovery software

02-19-2007, 08:38 AM	#3 (permalink)
greensha Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 2 OS: XP	Thanks for the quick reply. I knew when I was plugging the drives into the Promise controller it was a bad idea. I did get a CD with drivers that came with the MB but I can't find the utility to make the floppy. I don't recall now how I did it when I originally put the machine together. I'm assuming there is a web site that has what I need but I've searched both the ASUS and Intel sites and not found what I was looking for.