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November 2nd, 2011 13:00
Help on Reinstalling a Raid 0 hard drive
Hi,hope someone here can help me.
I have a Dell XPS 720 running XP3, it had 2x250g HD in Raid 0, which were though by Dell to be causing the PC to have the blinking orange on button.
They were replaced under warranty.
I took the option to purchase them from Dell as I didn't believe them to be faulty. (PC problem turned out to be GPU).
Just got round to refitting them in 2 spare HD bays, cables are all there etc.
They are recognised as one drive (F) but on trying to view the files windows wants me to reformat.
I did back up the original files on there but some important stuff like photos were corrupt, which I hoped to get back.
Do I need to do something in the BIOS?
Sorry for the long post,
Regards
Andy
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jackshack
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November 3rd, 2011 11:00
Provided you connect the drives to the same ports from which you removed them they should boot.
jackshack
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November 2nd, 2011 14:00
If your computer already sees the two drives as a single drive you should not need to do anything with the BIOS.
Have you connected the two drives to the same relative ports that were used when the drives were first installed? If not, you can try switching the drive cables to see if Windows will then be able to see the files. Otherwise you will have to depend on the back-ups you have made.
AndyReldif
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November 3rd, 2011 05:00
Hi Jack,
Thanks for the reply.
The new drives are in ports/bays 1 and 2, and the old drives in ports/bays 3 and 4. I will try and swop them over.
The new drives had the operating system re-installed by the dell engineer, but I think the old drives still have the operating system on, will I be able to boot from them ok.
Thanks
AndyReldif
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November 3rd, 2011 14:00
Thanks Jack,
Swopped them back and ok, so put them back to slots 3 & 4, set them up in the Bios to Raid 0 and all good.
jackshack
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November 3rd, 2011 16:00
You are quite welcome. I was happy to help. Glad to see all is well.