RAID-ABIT KG7 HELP!!!!!

[TechManXP]

Hi everyone-
I have a BIG problem.
I have an abit kg7 raid and have gone through several of them because they are defective. Before the first mobo was deffective, i had 2 ibm60gxp's striped in level 0. I got my new mobo and I put back the drives in the EXACT form (drive on right channel n stuff) and it wont detect any of the drives so it doesnt go into the OS (Windows XP Pro) I have VERY important files on there and i would like to get it back working. I do not want to delete the stripe. If anyone knows, please reply or e-mail me. Thank you
~Mark

[ilovetheusers]

Just a thought - If the Mobo doesn't even see the drives like you say - there is an issue with the hardware configuration or in the bios.

Do the process of elimination in getting the Mobo to see any drive. Swap cables, use a different drive, whatever you can do to get the system to see the a hard drive at all. Your primary concern for now is to eliminate that you don't have another bad board.

Also, as a side note - raid 0 is the worst thing you can have if you are worried about loosing data. There is no redundancy and loosing one drive means total data loss.

[DocPC]

Dude, you've posted this same question in several sections. Just leave it in the appropriate one and someone will help you.

[Stanley_Kubrick]

**(possible glimmer of hope)...make sure that the new board is flashed to the BIOS version that was on the board you had the drives configured with originally. a flash on these abit boards will flash the raid bios as well, so it follows that you need to be running the same version.

**(reality sinking in)...however, based on my experience with these abit/promise raid boards, I would have to say that you might just be screwed. these whores are finicky as he77 and either work right off or they don't. no begging or tweaking allowed. Once that array gets cheesed or has even a minor problem, you are usually looking at re-creating the array (which hoses the data real good). once you get it up and going these boards rock, but setting them up can be challenging.

even going from one setup to an identical one, i don't experience any success with this. at all. good luck, but you are might be looking at forgetting the data and just recreating the array.

you would think that as long as you configged everything the same that it should just work, but these bastage boards are just bastages like that...

again, good luck!

[MacGyver]

I would stop fooling around with it and give the drives to a professional data recovery service. They may be able to get your data back, but the price isn't cheap. Depends on what data you lost and how bad you want to get it back.

[Gameguru]

[quote]Originally posted by Stanley_Kubrick:
[QB**(reality sinking in)...however, based on my experience with these abit/promise raid boards, I would have to say that you might just be screwed. these whores are finicky as he77 and either work right off or they don't. no begging or tweaking allowed. Once that array gets cheesed or has even a minor problem, you are usually looking at re-creating the array (which hoses the data real good). once you get it up and going these boards rock, but setting them up can be challenging.

even going from one setup to an identical one, i don't experience any success with this. at all. good luck, but you are might be looking at forgetting the data and just recreating the array.

you would think that as long as you configged everything the same that it should just work, but these bastage boards are just bastages like that...

again, good luck![/QB]<hr></blockquote>

You will probably never be able to recover the data by placing the drives in a raid on another board...even if its the exact board/bios/ etc. I've tried it on at least three different boards and it has never worked. Once an array has been modified in any way(including physically moving the drives to another board), you will have to rebuild and reinstall.

[TechManXP]

**Sorry For putting the question in different forums. Its my first time using this forum. Great forum btw.

Anyways, Stanley- thanks for the ideas. I will see what i can do and if i can remember which bios version it had since theres so many out there and its been a long time since it first broke. (1 year!) The otehr thing is, - i dont think flashing the bios would do anything b/c im pretty sure the raid on the mobo has its own bios. (HPT370)

In response to ilovetheuser- i know what raid level 0 is. And i didnt pick it for data back up. I chose it because of speed- I didnt think my mobo would get ESD'd one day. Also, i already tried switching cables, using different drives etc etc. i tried everything.

Machgyver- i will never bring it to a profession data recovery service because i am my own data recovery specialist.

Gameguru- i disagree with waht u said because you can "physically" disconnect the cables from hard drives in raid mode and then put them back in and eerything will be fine. I think what the problem is that it will not want to work with a diffrent mobo but the original one.

[Gameguru]

[quote]Originally posted by Gameguru:
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You will probably never be able to recover the data by placing the drives in a raid on another board...(including physically moving the drives to another board), you will have to rebuild and reinstall.</strong><hr></blockquote>


I said they wouldn't work on different mobos. Unplugging the drive and plugging it back in to the same mobo is no different than turning off the power and I do that all the time.

[ilovetheusers]

[quote]Originally posted by TechManXP:
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In response to ilovetheuser- i know what raid level 0 is. And i didnt pick it for data back up. I chose it because of speed- I didnt think my mobo would get ESD'd one day. Also, i already tried switching cables, using different drives etc etc. i tried everything.

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Well then what did ya go putting sensitive data on it for?

Anyway, can you see any drives in the bios? I see you tried different stuff but didn't say what te results were. If you can't see a different drive in the bios you may have a bad board.

[TechManXP]

When you have 2 drives in RAID mode, you can not see them in the bios. The only way you can see if their working is looking in the RAID Bios. And the answer to that question is yes i can see them in the Raid bios.

I didnt think my board will ever get ESD'd- thats why i put sensitive data on it. It doesnt matter if i had it in Raid +1 or 0+1- the board STILL got ESD'd.