Ouch raid0 failure

[Jonny2Bad]

Well went to do a clean install of xp and now i cant get my raid 0 to accept the install, just got the xp onto 1 250g for now so i can check the disks, odd though been working fine up till now, any ideas chaps?

[fynn]

both HDD's working fine? and all sata conecters working fine? apart from that the only thing i can think of is something screwed up the raid set up when you re-installed, so may be worth checking the raid set up in bios just in case it went wronky on you m8

[Danc1978]

maybe worth try resetting bios to defaults

then resetting up the raid in bios and resetting the array

[Jonny2Bad]

Yep did all that it just wont have it, very odd.

[fynn]

you broke it................lol :twisted:

[Jonny2Bad]

Lol yeah it would seem so, but how i ask :?

[Ben]

Are both disks formatted fully? Some old data on there maybe confusing the system.

[Jonny2Bad]

Yes did a full format then at 100% it errored saying it couldnt format the discs as they were faulty, but as single drives they both come back as healthyand no problems. Odd to say the least.

[Ben]

Does sound a bit strange.

Are these the Seagates or the WDs?

Tried the manf tools for the drive?

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/

http://support.wdc.com/download/

[Jonny2Bad]

Right got them going again, went through and deleted the everything connected to the raid system and started from scratch again, and this time it worked, baring in mind i had done all that b4 also, very hit and miss isnt it. I wonder what could cause such erratic behaviour

[matz]

unlucky

what does Raid 0 standfor again?

[Chewie]

striped array
Raid 1 is mirrored array