Raid 0 Failure Serial #s?

Asus Sabertooth P67
WD2002 2TB x 2 Raid 0
Seagate 1TB OS C: Drive


Updated my bios from 1502 to 1851. Booted without re enabling Raid 0 in the sata setup. Windows booted, and installed half a dozen hardware drivers. Including both WDs, sata drivers for 4 sata channels, and various other drivers, and then asked to format the letter that used to be the raid (D). Refused format, and rebooted.

Enabled Raid 0 in bios sata. Both the intel setup during boot and the Intel RST list 3 drives. 2 normal (seagate and one WD) and a member(0) raid 0 failure missing a disk. Reconnecting the drive doesn't help.

The only solution i can find anywhere is to delete the raid and recreate it, and "HOPE" it will be restored. I have not attempted this yet as in the Intel RST i noticed the serial numbers for the array, the missing drive, and the "free" drive do not match?

wd-wmay011********** - the one WD in the raid
d-wmay011**********:0 - the "missing" WD from the raid
wd-wmay011********** - the free WD that matches ALL numbers to the missing WD, but the format of the serial is different. The "W" from the front of the serial is missing, and a ":0" at the end neither of the other WD serials have.

Is it possible to fix these serials so the expected "missing" serial matches the free serial? And if i can fix the serials will it help with restoring the raid? I cannot find the serial numbers using the search in regedit.

What are the chances recreating the raid will work? Hopeful as there should have been no damage, formatting, or overwritting of data?

 

Just wanted to add, before updating the bios, windows update and other drivers were all up to date. Not sure why these updates only came after updating the bios.

 

Hope you have backups. Raid 0 is nice for speed. But, if you lose a drive. You are SOL, since the data gets striped across the raid array. If you want speed and loss preventions, then ye need raid 1+0 or 0+1. most just just raid 10 (1+0). But, this requires 4 drives (totals space / 2).

Why did you upgrade the firmware, in the first place?

But, you booted from a broken raid set. Are ye sure it was not raid 1, which is mirroring? Data gets copied from one hdd, to another? If one fails, the other will still work.