Hey everyone,
I recently had an issue of my boot drive (Crucial M4 SSD) disappearing and crashing the computer almost every hour on the hour. I thought (wrongly) after only a few minutes of googling that it may be a problem with the motherboard (ASUS Maximus IV Extreme-Z) and the on-board Intel Raid controller. I was in a rush to find a solution and I found out that I was running BIOS ver.0706, so I flashed to ver.3304 following the instructions to the letter. Unfortunately my computer was still crashing and the boot drive disappearing, but now I had also lost my Raid10.
The problem (after more research) was actually due to a needed firmware update to the Crucail M4 itself, which I have now updated and the crashing problem has gone away.
I have tried recovering the old BIOS from a backup I had made just prior to the flash, but the BIOS won't let me re-flash to an older version (not sure if it would fix the problem anyway). I'm at wits end trying to find a solution. The drives themselves are fine mechanically. All the data is still there (theoretically), I haven't reformatted or recreated the raid array *yet* because of the warning that creating the array will wipe all data. That will be my last option before calling it a wash. The drives have not been touched or altered or reconnected in any way. The array was setup from 4x3TB drives on the on-board Intel SATA-II ports in a striped mirror (10 or 0+1)
So, I'm open to any and all ideas. Nothing will be too crazy at this point. If you think you have a solution I'd love to hear it.
TL:DR - Lost my Raid10 setup during a BIOS update. Is there any way to put it back together or at least recover the data?
I recently had an issue of my boot drive (Crucial M4 SSD) disappearing and crashing the computer almost every hour on the hour. I thought (wrongly) after only a few minutes of googling that it may be a problem with the motherboard (ASUS Maximus IV Extreme-Z) and the on-board Intel Raid controller. I was in a rush to find a solution and I found out that I was running BIOS ver.0706, so I flashed to ver.3304 following the instructions to the letter. Unfortunately my computer was still crashing and the boot drive disappearing, but now I had also lost my Raid10.
The problem (after more research) was actually due to a needed firmware update to the Crucail M4 itself, which I have now updated and the crashing problem has gone away.
I have tried recovering the old BIOS from a backup I had made just prior to the flash, but the BIOS won't let me re-flash to an older version (not sure if it would fix the problem anyway). I'm at wits end trying to find a solution. The drives themselves are fine mechanically. All the data is still there (theoretically), I haven't reformatted or recreated the raid array *yet* because of the warning that creating the array will wipe all data. That will be my last option before calling it a wash. The drives have not been touched or altered or reconnected in any way. The array was setup from 4x3TB drives on the on-board Intel SATA-II ports in a striped mirror (10 or 0+1)
So, I'm open to any and all ideas. Nothing will be too crazy at this point. If you think you have a solution I'd love to hear it.
TL:DR - Lost my Raid10 setup during a BIOS update. Is there any way to put it back together or at least recover the data?
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Behemoth
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