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Here's my story:
Had two hard drives in raid 1
Installed windows 7 and somewhere down the line removed raid 1 or lost it (i don't remember) and started using both drives.
Secondary drive eventually failed and I continued using the primary one while I RMA'd the second.
Second one came and I"m trying to re-enable RAID 1 but it won't work. The status when it boots up is "REBUILD" when windows 7 tries to start up it says it's having problem booting and something with the boot file.
I disabled RAID 1 and checked to see if windows 7 sees the drive. It doesn't, so I formatted it to NTFS.
Windows 7 sees it as a secondary drive now and I can write/read.
I thought this was the problem so I rebooted, set RAID 1 in bios (maximus forumula II motherboard) and thought everything would be ok but same problem as above.
I'm not sure what to do? I'd like to not format my entire system to get this working but it may seem like that's the only thing I can do? I assumed RAID 1 would allow the secondary hard drive to just pick up the 1st one (a.k.a "rebuild").
Perhaps it would work if I insert the windows 7 cd? Is this true? In that case *cough* I don't have one. If I placed a windows 7 image on a USB drive could I use that? (if this is the solution anyway).
Maybe I can "rebuild" it in a disk manager without RAID 1 being active?
Had two hard drives in raid 1
Installed windows 7 and somewhere down the line removed raid 1 or lost it (i don't remember) and started using both drives.
Secondary drive eventually failed and I continued using the primary one while I RMA'd the second.
Second one came and I"m trying to re-enable RAID 1 but it won't work. The status when it boots up is "REBUILD" when windows 7 tries to start up it says it's having problem booting and something with the boot file.
I disabled RAID 1 and checked to see if windows 7 sees the drive. It doesn't, so I formatted it to NTFS.
Windows 7 sees it as a secondary drive now and I can write/read.
I thought this was the problem so I rebooted, set RAID 1 in bios (maximus forumula II motherboard) and thought everything would be ok but same problem as above.
I'm not sure what to do? I'd like to not format my entire system to get this working but it may seem like that's the only thing I can do? I assumed RAID 1 would allow the secondary hard drive to just pick up the 1st one (a.k.a "rebuild").
Perhaps it would work if I insert the windows 7 cd? Is this true? In that case *cough* I don't have one. If I placed a windows 7 image on a USB drive could I use that? (if this is the solution anyway).
Maybe I can "rebuild" it in a disk manager without RAID 1 being active?