I have a Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6 (Rev.1), with an E6850 C2D processor (never OC'd), 2x2gb OCZ SLI readyPC2 6400 ram, BFG 8800GT 512mb card, and two 36gb raptors in Raid 0 running Windows Ultimate x64. Updated BIOS to F6B (latest).
Everything was working fine, until I tried to add a 1.5TB Seagate internal drive. Running all the Seagate utilities, I kept getting sector errors, and the format routines and partitioning kept hanging.
Problemsolving via the web, I saw that I needed to upgrade my RAID drivers. I went to the NVidia site to download the Nforce drivers for my board. Computer updated them, and I reran the Seagate setup for the 1.5TB drive, and everything was working fine.
Cloned a SATA drive that I was loading programs onto (games and such so as not to fill up the C drive) the 1.5TB drive, and the cloning was successful. Shut the machine down, and removed the old 100g sata dive, and hooked up the 1.5 TB drive in it's place.
Haven't been able to boot back up since. Tried moving the 1.5TB drive around... the POST sees the 1.5TB drive whereever I put it. And before I updated, it always saw the drive and saw 1.5 (1.37 actual) of it.
The boot routine hangs after verifying the DMI Pool Data, which indicates that there's no drive to boot from, meaning for some reason it isn't seeing my RAID drive.
The Nvidia RAID Post says it's a Healthy Striped Drive. Sees it. Shows up as BOOT drive. If I turn RAID OFF on the motherboard, I see both individual drives, so I know the motherboard has contact with the drives.
But I can't seem to boot off the drives.
Tried booting up with Vista Disk to try repair, it doesn't see the OS, so the comp isn't seeing the RAID drive, even though it knows it's there.
Tried flashing the BIOS with the latest from Gigabyte, in case the mobo didn't like the stuff straight from Nvidia. Still no luck.
Can anyone offer some advice on this that won't mean me having to reformat my RAID drive? I can if I absolutely have to, but there are some files as well as my "favorites" file that I'd like to retrieve.
Any help/advice would be GREATLY appreciated!!
Regards,
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