I have Windows XP Pro with a 80G C: drive as my boot drive and two 200G drives raided together (raid 0) as my D: drive.
I just had a mups problem and did Windows restore. I now boot up normally to my C: (all files okay) but Windows Explorer sees my D: as unviewable. The disk manager sees all three physical drives. How do I get Windows to see the second and third drives as raided together?
(hopefully without destroying the data on them)
I tried setting the BIOS IDE Configuration/Configure SATA as RAID but then the computer can’t boot windows and says it has no physical drives. The Raid Manager refuses to see any drives so is useless.
I’m afraid of the RAID Option ROM utility since I don’t know if the “Create RAID Volume” would wipe out the data on them.
There is a IT 8212F IDE RAID controller. I set the BIOS Advanced/Onboard Devices Configuration/ITE8212F Control to RAID mode. Then I reached the Setup Utility (Ctl-F). It offers Auto Configuration, Define a RAID or RAID Card Configuration (ignoring the Delete and Rebuild options). Would any of these be able to set the two physical drives as one logical (raid 0) drive without losing my data?
Or is there another way to get Windows to see my two raided drives as my D: drive?
Thanks!!!
