Please help me save my raid setup

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Long story short. virus. Tried to reinstall windows. Windows wouldn't install with my raid enabled "setup was unable to create a new system partition." Disabled raid, installed W7 onto my single SSD.

So far so good.

Re-enabled raid. Windows starts to load but I get a BSOD in about 1 second. System restarts and blue screens, and restarts, and blue screens....

If I set my bios to configure sata as IDE, Windows will start, but it tries to get me to format the drives that make up my raid setup. If I set the bios to configure sata as RAID, I just get BSOD.

Suggestions?

Update: tried pulling a OS drive out of my spare rig and popping that in there so that I could at least pull the stuff of the RAID setup.... I also get the BSOD with that drive as well.

I really really don't want to lose my raid setup.....
 
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First off did you install in RAID mode or IDE mode? I am assuming Intel ICH10r Raid? What raid level, how many drives, what drive models?

If you did it in RAID mode:
Disconnect RAID Drives
Boot SSD in IDE mode
Install Intel RST Drivers (assuming your x58 system in sig)
Restart
Shutdown
Configure SATA as RAID
Connect RAID drives
Bootup
Enter RAID BIOS ctrl+i
Confirm raid array is present and online (if not stop and report status here)
restart
Should be working!

If you did not install in RAID Mode:
**You can try the above but it prob wont work.
Disconnect RAID drives
Reinstall Windows in RAID mode
Follow steps above.
 
I'm pretty sure that I disconnected my 3 hdd and then set sata as IDE, then installed. I'm going to try disconnected the hdd, setting sata as raid, and reinstalling windows.
 
Thanks so much for your help so far. #1. Windows is already installing again... #2. Why would I need those drivers? Windows has always seen my raid setup in the past without the need for drivers. Or are those drivers for something else?
 
The windows installer usually needs the raid drivers to see the disk because the installer wouldn't have seen your raid setup. Are you sure you have the board in RAID mode?
 
THANK YOU SO MUCH! :D:D:D It worked without the drivers.

I disconnected my 3 hdd, set sata as raid in the bios, reinstalled windows onto the ssd, re-connected my 3 hdd. Windows started right up and my raid drive is there with all of my files.

Now to begin the process of reinstalling everything.....
 
Glad i could help.

Run the Intel RST installer so you have the management console and latest intel drivers for TRIM for your SSD in RAID mode
 
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