Posted: October/08/2007 at 09:09 | IP Logged

Hi,

I accidentally deleted RAID 1 set, which I don’t have a current backup. And now my machine will not boot from the drive. I thought it would automatically build the drives by connecting a spare drive so I did but the machine still does not recognize the drive.

Am I doing wrong?

Please help!

Posted: October/10/2007 at 03:33 | IP Logged

Hi Akule,

Deleted RAID 1 set? Could you please explain how did you do that?

Salvager.

Posted: October/10/2007 at 03:40 | IP Logged

I deleted it from the BIOS RAID mgmt screen. There you can create, repair, delete and resolve conflicts. When I deleted the RAID set, I was hoping to "break" the mirror leaving me with a backup of my boot drive... I had 2 Maxtor 80GB hard drives. Neither of the two drives that were once part of the mirrored set are bootable. To get the machine up in a limited fashion, I installed an old drive and installed a clean copy of XP pro.

Any suggestions please.

Posted: October/10/2007 at 04:26 | IP Logged

Hi Akule,

So you have a boot drive you were mirroring?? and you broke the mirror up by deleting it in your BIOS. Since you have done alot with your RAID drives like installing XP pro, the chances of data recovery are very less. Stop using the drives further, which can still worse the situation. Immediately contact Data Recovery Services for RAID. RAID Recovery from recovery experts is the only way to get your data back.

Salvager.