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HDD's aren't showing up after a re-install of Win7
Hello! First post here for me. Seems like a good forum/community. :)
After replacing the motherboard/CPU and reinstalling Windows 7, my disks aren't showing up. See screenshots for more details:
The two dark green partitions on the two 2TB disks are a software raid setup in my previous installation of Windows 7, using the same Disk Management window you see in the screenshot. For whatever reason this new install of windows is having problems with my hard drives. It does however see the main partition on the first 2TB disk but none on the second 2TB disk. I can right click on the partitions on the disks or the disks themselves and 'Reactivate' it but that has no effect.
Something else - Disk 0 had the same problem which I tried to solve by deleting a smaller (unused) partition of the two partitions that were on there. To my annoyance both partitions got deleted.
Is there a simple way to recover the lost partition on this drive?
I don't dare delete either of the two software raid partitions fearing that it might delete a much bigger partition. This will be the last time I'll be using the partition management software that's build into windows...
Any help would be greatly appreciated. :)