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    Posted: 05 Oct 2022 at 10:21am
Hey everyone, I'm kinda boned. I made a RAID5 array (Parity array) with Storage Spaces in Windows (Five 2Tb drives to get about 7Tb of usable storage space). Now, everything with it was working fine, but then I had the idea putting the drives in their own little case with a fan, instead of duct taped in the back of my case. I found some good cables and stuff and was really proud of myself. THEN, when I booted it up, the BIOS took ages to load up (if it did). And when it did I could sometimes access the storage pool. Other times it would say that one or more of the drives are inaccessible. I emailed a bit with ASRock, and they were telling me that it could be due to WHICH SATA PORTS the drives were connected to, and since I have no clue how they were originally hooked up I couldn't fix this. They also said that switching the ports to find the right combination would make it worse and worse as the computer tries to use those drives to 'rebuild' the original storage pool. I had a good bit of important data on those drives. Is there anyone with an expertise in this rather niche Windows software or ASRock BIOS that can help me? Is it too late? Is there a way to find the right ports? Can I find out what works by plugging them in while Windows has already booted? I appreciate all help. Thank you.
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Damn, messing with RAID arrays is always risky. We used to charge a fortune to
recover RAID arrays back in the early 2000s. We had special tools and software to
do it. I haven't really played with RAID much since leaving that firm however.
I suspect it may be easier today than it was then but I suspect you may need to
contract a data recovery specialist if the data is critical.

As a general rule, always make note of what drives connect to which ports, label
both the drives and the ports so you don't run into this again. When I was building
data servers I even labeled the cables, overkill sure but at least I was sure
what went where and that I hadn't mixed anything up.

I believe there is consumer grade data recovery software out there but using it
may cause more problems for a specialist if it doesn't work.

Sorry I couldn't help
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To anyone in the future having this problem. My actual issue was that I was powering all 5 drives off of one molex power cord from my power supply. While this isn't an issue for the power supply (since mine can easily support the wattage of these HDDs), each cable coming out has a limit. So if you hear your HDDs spinning up and then turning off, it could be a power issue like it was for me. Also, the SATA ports don't matter for Windows Storage Spaces. I ended up messing with it and tried adding a drive, which I then needed to purchase the Reclaime software to recover my original files (software worked great, worth $80). In the end, make sure your drives are adequately powered and make sure to check the easy stuff before messing with the array itself!
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