Raid 1

[EGS]

Well, my PC is an HP Media Center PC m7767c and when I originally purchased it had two hard drives set in RAID 1. It would display the RAID set-up on boot-up...

Something happened where I had to restore my PC to default/factory settings (I think I was hit with a trojan or something, I can't remember), but now when my PC boots up, the hard drives display as "Non-Raid Disk"...so RAID 1 is no longer in effect.

I didn't touch the hardware etc..so the switch or whatever should still be on?
How can I get it back into RAID 1 set-up?

 

[johnb35]

Go into the bios and make sure that raid is still enabled, then boot into the raid utiilty and make sure that raid 1 set up.

 

[EGS]

Go into the bios and make sure that raid is still enabled, then boot into the raid utiilty and make sure that raid 1 set up.

How do I access the BIOS?
On boot-up...it says F10 for system options, so I thought that'd be the BIOS...but it was system recovery.

 

[johnb35]

It's usually F2 or del key.

 

[EGS]

Okay...so I went in there...into the boot menu? I don't know if this is the same as the BIOS...didn't look like the usual BIOS menu...but I selected RAID 1.

It gave me an option for RAID 0 or RAID 1 and I selected RAID 1.
Which one should I have chosen?...

RAID 1 is faster than just having a slave/back-up hard drive, right? Or is it basically the same...I know it's for data just in case a hard drive fails...hm, would RAID 0 have been a faster/better option for me? These drives are only 8mb cache.

 

[johnb35]

Raid 1 means you have 2 drives the same size. Whatever is on drive 1 will be on drive 2 incase of drive failure, you can still bootup to the good one. Raid 0 means you have 2 drives the same size and you have double the space. Example. You have 2-250 gb drives, you actually have one drive at 500 gb. Raid 0 allows for faster read/write access, HOWEVER if one drive fails, you lose all your data.