RaidXpert- PC Crash On Migration From Raid Ready To Raid1
Newly built machine with Asus F1A75-V Pro motherboard, 12G DDR3, (2) 1TB 6G/s drives.
OS: W7 64 bit installed on Raid Ready drive. I also have a 3rd RR 1TB drive but its 3G so its discoonected as part of the troubleshooting.
To perform the migration, I performed these steps:
http://www.qtools.com/dev/howtos/raidxpert/migratetoraid1.htm
but it crashes the PC within about 2 minutes and creates a BSL (bad sector list) of about 30 rows on this brand new added drive that was just bought for this specific purpose.
Upon reboot I see in the array list in POST "RaidReady6G (my name for the 1st single disk) Critical / Migrating".
Now I realize this is going to end up being one LD but I should still be able to see the new physical drive in the bios boot options and do not. (I just did this on my church's sound booth machine which was also AMD platform and I could see both drives.)
So what I did was take the new drive back (both drives bought within last 10 days) to Comp USA and exchanged it. I'm about to install it but machine has not been powered up since I removed 2nd drive because I wanted to ask an expert how to proceed to possibly save my data.
Ultimately what I would like to have is (2) 500GB RAID1 configurations (LD1, LD2) without losing my data.
After several attemps
OS: W7 64 bit installed on Raid Ready drive. I also have a 3rd RR 1TB drive but its 3G so its discoonected as part of the troubleshooting.
To perform the migration, I performed these steps:
http://www.qtools.com/dev/howtos/raidxpert/migratetoraid1.htm
but it crashes the PC within about 2 minutes and creates a BSL (bad sector list) of about 30 rows on this brand new added drive that was just bought for this specific purpose.
Upon reboot I see in the array list in POST "RaidReady6G (my name for the 1st single disk) Critical / Migrating".
Now I realize this is going to end up being one LD but I should still be able to see the new physical drive in the bios boot options and do not. (I just did this on my church's sound booth machine which was also AMD platform and I could see both drives.)
So what I did was take the new drive back (both drives bought within last 10 days) to Comp USA and exchanged it. I'm about to install it but machine has not been powered up since I removed 2nd drive because I wanted to ask an expert how to proceed to possibly save my data.
Ultimately what I would like to have is (2) 500GB RAID1 configurations (LD1, LD2) without losing my data.
After several attemps
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I dont have raid drives. The cables are brand new and were provisded with the motherboard
Okay I plugged the new drive in and the moment my desktop appeared I got a confirmation the migration was complete and was prompted to restart.
Great, right? Well after restart I get a popup "RaidReadyG6 Logical Drive Goes Critical!"
These are both brand new drives! Any way to change this status?
Okay I plugged the new drive in and the moment my desktop appeared I got a confirmation the migration was complete and was prompted to restart.
Great, right? Well after restart I get a popup "RaidReadyG6 Logical Drive Goes Critical!"
These are both brand new drives! Any way to change this status?
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Yeah well I think the problem is now that I swapped disks in the middle of the failed migration. The PD that ithe system says is missing is the drive I just replaced. Is there any way to roll back migration? I made sure to back everything up.
I wonder if I should rebuild and reconfigure the RAID the way I wanted it anyway and then restore. Will windows restore since one of the disks the OS is on is after all the same as the original install?
I wonder if I should rebuild and reconfigure the RAID the way I wanted it anyway and then restore. Will windows restore since one of the disks the OS is on is after all the same as the original install?
If you destroy the array I belive you will lose the OS but you may not have a choice.
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I think youre right! The W7 backup image is sitting on my 3G raid ready drive and it lists as being functional.
What if I pull the cmos battery? Will that take the raid back to raid ready on the good 6G?
Or what about a restore point? I do have the 2nd drive physically disconnected and I'm writing this post on the effected PC
What if I pull the cmos battery? Will that take the raid back to raid ready on the good 6G?
Or what about a restore point? I do have the 2nd drive physically disconnected and I'm writing this post on the effected PC
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I would lose my backup and its risky but I could dekite my raid ready 3g which should make the raid controller automatically try and rebuild the raid1 to that disk. Then I could take that same disk offline and reconnect the new drive. What do you think?
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Ok how about this:
I power the system down and set my sata ports 5 and 6 to ide (option in my bios). Then I can boot up and format the drive (hopefully) and then reboot and move it back to raid port?
I power the system down and set my sata ports 5 and 6 to ide (option in my bios). Then I can boot up and format the drive (hopefully) and then reboot and move it back to raid port?
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Have not done any of these things but found out that I can rebuild just the dick being migrated to but every time I try- even though I get no blue screen now, the video ascrambles and PC reboots. After 2 trys it is now in "Offline" status but Windows is still up
This is not a raid problem, either a drive is flacky or you need to update you computer/raid bios.
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Update:
I ended up, weather I wanted to or not, wiping the RAID configuration and starting over. I got my ARRAY-1 and ARRAY-2 now and was going strong for 3 days. All of the sudden while transferring application data from my old, non-raid machine I get a "ARRAY-1 Goes Critical, ARRAY-2 Goes Critical"..
So I try a freaking rebuild and it seems to be going fine at 1:AM so I go to bed. I wake up to find the following error:
Rebuild on logical drive "ARRAY2-RAID1" aborted at 54% because of error
What freaking error?!?!!!
Disk (Port Number 2,Target ID 1) Setdown
Setdown? WTF is setdown?!!! Google it- you wont find a single match!
I've noticed a lot of instances where the AMD errors are not good English. Anyway, this is the other disk that's offline this time and KI know there's not a damned thing wrong with either disk. They are both brand freaking new and replace on top of that!
Do you know how to help me get though this problem?
I ended up, weather I wanted to or not, wiping the RAID configuration and starting over. I got my ARRAY-1 and ARRAY-2 now and was going strong for 3 days. All of the sudden while transferring application data from my old, non-raid machine I get a "ARRAY-1 Goes Critical, ARRAY-2 Goes Critical"..
So I try a freaking rebuild and it seems to be going fine at 1:AM so I go to bed. I wake up to find the following error:
Rebuild on logical drive "ARRAY2-RAID1" aborted at 54% because of error
What freaking error?!?!!!
Disk (Port Number 2,Target ID 1) Setdown
Setdown? WTF is setdown?!!! Google it- you wont find a single match!
I've noticed a lot of instances where the AMD errors are not good English. Anyway, this is the other disk that's offline this time and KI know there's not a damned thing wrong with either disk. They are both brand freaking new and replace on top of that!
Do you know how to help me get though this problem?
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Notice: This time bot physical disks are visible and "Functional" on the physical drive view but in logical view the Seagate (1st time ever) is showing as being the problem in critical! Remember that all of this system is brand new! 
I am not a fan of AMD / ATI chipsets anymore because of quality and stability in the past few years. You may want to google your motherboard model and see if this is a wide spead issue.
You could always buy a raid controller from newegg (I know, it supposed to work with the onboard controller), they have several in the $20 range. Read the controller reviews before you buy.
You could always buy a raid controller from newegg (I know, it supposed to work with the onboard controller), they have several in the $20 range. Read the controller reviews before you buy.
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Yeah thanks for the advice but the MB is only 2 weeks old so, if anything, I will head back to Comp USA with it and the processor and get one thats better suited for what I want. Of course the RAID is what I was after when I bought this one but its all about which sales associate you get to deal with at time of purchase. They are all "experts" you know lol
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The last rebuild was successful and fairly quick. I really think it may have been from me manually copying my app_data folder from my other PC over the network for Outlook without using Easy Transfer because my NIC also crashed at the same time.
When I did a restore and then rebuilt the raid everything went much better
When I did a restore and then rebuilt the raid everything went much better
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My own solution
You either have a bad drive (Most Likely), a bad SATA cable (Make sure both drives use the same length sata cable), or a bad or outdated driver in Windows.
My guess in your senario, a bad or mismatched set of cables.
Note: Cable length should NOT make a difference if the controller follows SATA specs, but I have seen way to many manufacturers cut corners and release crappy controllers.