I have a machine with a Gigabyte x58A-UD3R motherboard. It has 2 RAID 0 arrays on the ICH10R: the Windows 7 OS is on a 2 SSD array (I reasoned that the SSDs would be reliable enough to do this safely, and I keep it well backed up) and I also stored DVDs on another array of Samsung HD204UIs bought way back when they were cheap. (Yeah, I knew this isn't fault-tolerant, and that one is advised against RAID arrays on "green" drives, but it did work fine for a year. I used it as backup for my DVDs, a system that made them much easier to play, and I kept the array backed up. Well, not very well backed up, actually, but I knew I could always restore from the DVDs if needed.)
Yesterday one of the drives in the HDD array started to make a sound like constant head parking or something similar. My guess was/is that one of the drives had gone bad, and that I'd probably lost the array. And when I restarted, I saw, during Post, that the HDD array had failed. But the SSD OS array was OK, and I figured Windows would load OK. But it didn't, even in safe mode, and when I tried to repair, using the Windows disk, everything just stopped when loading the Windows files. This surprised me.
It seems to me like my next move is to delete the HDD array, since both arrays are controlled by the ICH10R controller, and see if I can load Windows then. But if the problems are because something is wrong with the controller, it seems like replacing the motherboard with something newer is a better option. Anyway, does anyone have any suggestion about things to try before giving up on the hope that the drive isn't trashed?
Yesterday one of the drives in the HDD array started to make a sound like constant head parking or something similar. My guess was/is that one of the drives had gone bad, and that I'd probably lost the array. And when I restarted, I saw, during Post, that the HDD array had failed. But the SSD OS array was OK, and I figured Windows would load OK. But it didn't, even in safe mode, and when I tried to repair, using the Windows disk, everything just stopped when loading the Windows files. This surprised me.
It seems to me like my next move is to delete the HDD array, since both arrays are controlled by the ICH10R controller, and see if I can load Windows then. But if the problems are because something is wrong with the controller, it seems like replacing the motherboard with something newer is a better option. Anyway, does anyone have any suggestion about things to try before giving up on the hope that the drive isn't trashed?
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