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System stopped recognizing Internal (RAID) HD
Brief Overview
Computer has 4 hard drives (C, D, E, & H) and 2 DVD drives.
The other night, went into the BIOS menu to change the boot order (so we could boot from DVD)
Since rebooting, the system doesn't see the H drive.
Disk Management prompts me to Initialize Disk, and shows Disk 3 & Disk 4 as Unallocated / Not Initialized.
Tech info
Highlighting the problem drive
Before:
According to Disk Management,Code:>WMIC DISKDRIVE GET INDEX,CAPTION Caption Index MARVELL Raid VD 0 SCSI Disk Device 3 Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120G SCSI Disk Device 2 Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250G SCSI Disk Device 0 WDC WD1003FZEX-00MK2 SCSI Disk Device 1 Seagate Ultra Slim MT USB Device 4
(Disk 4 was an External USB Drive I had plugged in at that time.)
- Disk 0 = C:
- Disk 1 = D:
- Disk 2 = E:
- Disk 3 = H:
After:
When I look at the BIOS menu, this is the list of drives:Code:>WMIC DISKDRIVE GET INDEX,CAPTION Caption Index Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120G SCSI Disk Device 2 Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250G SCSI Disk Device 0 WDC WD1003FZEX-00MK2 SCSI Disk Device 1 WDC WD20 EZRX-00D8PB0 SCSI Disk Device 3 WDC WD20 EZRX-00D8PB0 SCSI Disk Device 4
- P1: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-223C
- P3: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-223F
- P2: WDC WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0
- P5: Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120 GB
- Windows Boot Manager (P5: Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120GB)
- P0: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB
- SATA PM WDC-WD20EZRX-00D8PB0
- SATA PS WDC-WD20EZRX-00D8PB0
This may be unrelated, but after the system stopped recognizing the drive, I checked the Event Log and found hundreds of System Errors: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0.
Web searches have turned up past recommendations to use Partition Wizard to recover unallocated drives, but I'm not sure how that works, given their status as a RAID array.
Thanks in advance for any help you folk can provide.