Hi all,
I’m running a 2 x 500GB SATA RAID 0, (sys partition, and 3 other partitions in the RAID) along with separate 1.5TB drive (3 partitions, dynamic)
Briefly, the config is:
2 x 500 GB RAID 0.
– C: Windows XP, Sys partition
– 4 other NTFS partitions
1 x 1.5TB, no RAID, dynamic disk
– 3 NTFS partitions
System = Intel E8500 on an X38 board.
ATI HD3870 X2
Using onboard Intel RAID.
Intel Storage Mgr v7.6
The other day, after a botched installation of new graphics drivers, the RAID status showed “ERROR OCCURED(0)” on one of the RAID drives, and Windows BSODed with a corrupt registry hive.
So I recovered it via a guide using Restore Points. Then I went to the Intel Storage Manager to clear the error status (read somewhere that it was a glitch).
Fine, with everything seemingly back up, I decided to back up some stuff from the RAID drive to the non-RAID 1.5TB, thinking that maybe one of my RAID drives might fail anytime. It got hung up during the process.
After a restart, the non RAID 1.5TB drive suddenly couldn’t be detected anymore! The drive simply disappeared.
And after one more reboot to Last Known Good Config, it cause the PC to go black after the XP splash screen. Only when I removed the drive did Windows manage to start.
I slaved the drive to a USB enclosure and could not get a Drive letter out of it. But I picked it up in Disk Mgmt however… as a dynamic disk that was invalid. Now I wished I had configured it as a Basic disk instead of Dynamic.
So a non-RAID drive that is relatively new, and was not part of the RAID problem somehow ended up being messed up. I’m wondering if the RAID controller or manager messed up disk’s MBR or something.
There’re 3 partitions worth of data in there. Is there anyway I can get stuff out?
Any help will be appreciated! Thanks.
