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A friend, who is not tech savvy had a hardware RAID of two disks. That means he had either RAID 0 or RAID 1.
All of a sudden, the RAID disk disappeared from his windows, wasn't listed in Computer Management and during boot the hardware RAID card was reporting any disks.
I have a SATA dock (USB) and i used it to test the drives. I tried in windows and mac but in both cases the drives wouldn't show up even as devices.
Is this check i did correct? if the drives are not listed during booting or in the OS as device i assume their controllers must be fried.
If i hook the two HDDs directly in the motherboard and check if are appearing in the BIOS as devices that should be enough to check their health? – a4ex – 2011-07-11T11:22:59.493
I would say that is not enough to check. Use the Ultimate boot cd and run a disk check. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ Did you attempt to check the health of the RAID volume in the RAID controller's BIOS? That really should tell you.
– KCotreau – 2011-07-11T11:44:25.713No i haven't tried through the controller's BIOS. I only checked as sigle drives in BIOS or in windows and mac enviroment. – a4ex – 2011-07-11T11:57:17.967