Firstly, I'm an idiot and don't know what I'm doing. But I have read the help yet it is not matching my experience... and I figure this is because I'm an idiot. And I've been trying to sort this out for weeks, making me feel even more like an idiot.
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Something happen and Win 10 swapped drivers to one incompatible with RAID disks. After 5 months of trying to resolve the issue by fixing Windows I gave up and did a fresh install on a new SSD.
Into all this add Seagate drives... 2 x 1Tb and 2 x 3Tb (the damn backup drive) that have either failed or failed on initial testing.
So the systems looks like this...
#1 Controller
Raid Disk 1 (all 1TB)
Raid Disk 2
Raid Disk 3
Raid Disk 4
SSD Boot
SSD Old
#2 Controller
DVD Drive
Backup Disk
AMD 8 core
16 Gb RAM
(noted for comments on speed)
Even after the reload of Windows I can't see the RAID disks.
I'm 60% sure they are in the right order. The disks are definitely in same order as they were removed from the stack. If I'm wrong then it is a total invert of the 4.
So I didn't have much choice but to try using the motherboard utility to recreate the RAID. At that point I might have rewritten some tables. I have no idea and would take advice.
Firstly because I'm following the help I have not scanned the disks first. Nor do I have the replacement 3Tb drive to image the disks at this stage. I want to make a virtual raid set and see what the story is.
I think what I might have done wrong is to not scan the drive before trying to create the virtual raid but I see nowhere in the help documents that talks on this topic.
Everything is going fine setting up the RAID 5 virtual disk until I run autodetect. I've created an addition desktop as you can't hide the main program window and run that for up to 3 days. How long is this meant to take? I have reasons to wanta reboot, pesty programs that insist on it.
So if I can just get one thing right... do I have to scan the 4 disk before I start messing with creating the virtual raid?
And with that a software suggestion. I have been known to get up every 2 hours during the night to feed orphan baby fruit bats but I'd prefer if I could select multiple disks and scan them in a batch.
Tanks,
Yani