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firefirefire

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  1. Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170N-WIFI BIOS Version: F22e (latest) RAID System: Intel RST Drives: (4) Intel 540s Series 2.5" 1TB SSD I was momentarily taken over by the big dumb and reset my BIOS settings while using a RAID 5 setup. This predictably wiped the RAID configuration on the disks and turned the RAID volume into Failed status. From the original array of 4 disks, 2 disks are now showing as non-RAID disks, while 2 disks stayed in the array. I know that normally a failure rate of 2 out 4 is a death sentence for RAID 5, but I believe in my case it's not as bad. My hypothesis is that only the RAID configuration got messed up in the 2 non-RAID disks. The question then becomes: Is the a way to manually recreate RAID configuration on the non-RAID disks so the BIOS recognizes them as member disks again? And if so, do I need to see a data recovery professional for this? I suppose there's always the option to try to copy everything out, but that data recovery process is expensive for a RAID setup so I'd explore this easier option first, if it is possible at all.
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