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How do I recover from this?

Ok, I've set up a RAID 10 four disk array of identical 160GB 7200 HDDs, built on a Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P Mobo to edit video, but it appears that I've got a problem, Windows 10 Home reports I have three Logical Disks, Disk 0 Basic of 295GB which is online, Disk 1 Basic of 295GB which it also reports is offline because of a signature collision, and Disk 3 Dynamic of 160GB which is online and which it reports as unallocated.

The RAID BIOS has a Logical RAID 10 Drive called Windows, which lists the following

Drive 1 Port 3 160GB
Drive 2 Port 4 160GB
Drive 3 Port ? ?GB
Drive 4 Port ? ?GB

What has gone wrong? How do I recover from this?

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Gerald Connolly

What does Device manager see?

If your version of Windows supports it, ditch the Fake-RAID on your MOBO and use Windows native software RAID10 it will be quicker and more reliable

Wayne Faulkner

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I had forgotten to load the Gigabyte Mobo RAID Driver before setting up Windows 10, which meant I had to start again from scratch the same day, but it had given me the time to realise that I needed more disk space out of the tiny 160GB HDDs I was using, so set up a RAID 5 instead.

Interestingly, I've decided on another RAID 10 for yet another upgraded machine, this time using a cheap MSI Mobo, but only because the BIOS doesn't support RAID 5. There's no documentation regarding the setup of the RAID in the BIOS, so I'm assuming I will use DRVCFG in the BIOS selection to configure the RAID before F10 and Enter, like on Gigabyte Mobo's

Although I realised my mistake a few hours after asking for help, I was confused by Windows 10 reporting problems with drives and yet still working perfectly, if only as a two disk RAID 10, ha.