My Server Boot drive Failed Please help!

[chris7797]

I have a PC that I am using as a server.  It has an intel 10400 with six, 14Tb hard drives running in Raid 6 off an HBA Card.  Power supply is a 750W and I was running Windows 11 operating system off of a SSD.  The other day I lost power when I went to power on the PC a few days later it would only boot to the bios.  From what I can tell it wouldn’t see the boot SSD.  I am assuming it died for some reason.  I took the SSD out, installed it in an external case in my other PC and it sees the drive in drive management but under file explorer the drive but says not ready?   When SSD is first connected to different PC pop up says "E:\ is not accessible. The device is not ready" I also attached a picture of disk management with the disk installed from an external drive. Disk 3 is the drive in question.  In the server I installed a brand-new SSD and I can see it in the bios. 

 

My question is can the original SSD be saved? I was thinking of putting a bootable USB stick with windows on it and try and do a repair?

 

option 2 - install new drive but how do I do that but get back the original raid array.  I have been trying to find a good walkthrough but can’t find it.  From my understanding the raid should be saved on the raid drives so I should be able to recover it? 

Please any and all help appreciated!!

 

[Timme]

43 minutes ago, chris7797 said:

The other day I lost power when I went to power on the PC a few days later it would only boot to the bios. 

What do you mean? Does it auto-load into BIOS? Isn't there any error message when you boot?

[Dutch_Master]

Boot into a Linux environment then run a file system check on the Win-OS drive. There's a reasonable chance the drive will work fine afterwards.

[chris7797]

Yes when I turn on the server it goes right to the bios without me hitting anything.  when i go into advanced settings and look under hard drives none listed.  I click exit with or without saving and reboots to bios.  

 

I will have to figure out how to boot into linux. never used it before.  but i am confused if the motherboard does not see the hard drive would i still be able to do a system check on it?

[spacepickle]

1 hour ago, chris7797 said:

Yes when I turn on the server it goes right to the bios without me hitting anything.  when i go into advanced settings and look under hard drives none listed.  I click exit with or without saving and reboots to bios.  

 

I will have to figure out how to boot into linux. never used it before.  but i am confused if the motherboard does not see the hard drive would i still be able to do a system check on it?

FYI you have to quote someone like this (little quote button in bottom left) or mention them like @chris7797 in order for people to see you replied to them. Anyway if your motherboard isn't recognizing it, it could just mean it isn't seeing a bootable drive. So yes it is seeing a drive but it can't boot off of it so it igores it. Same reason it isn't listing the other drives in your server. 

As for booting into Linux, you can just get a cheap USB thumbdrive and use something like Rufus on a different computer to burn an ISO to it. I'd recommend something like Ubuntu for uses like this.  That said I believe there are similar tools you can use on your Windows machine that will accomplish a similar goal, can't name any names off the top of my head but Google or ChatGPT might be able to.

[chris7797]

On 3/30/2026 at 8:45 PM, Dutch_Master said:

Boot into a Linux environment then run a file system check on the Win-OS drive. There's a reasonable chance the drive will work fine afterwards.

I was able to boot into ubuntu and see the six 14TB drives.  I can also see the 2TB drive that should have the operating system on it but i do not know how to run a file system check on it.  how would i do that? 

[chris7797]

On 3/30/2026 at 8:15 PM, Timme said:

What do you mean? Does it auto-load into BIOS? Isn't there any error message when you boot?

When i turn on the pc i get a quick flash of the MSI badge then bios loads.  Under advanced settings no drives are visable. If i remove the boot drive and plug in a brand new blank drive and start the PC i can see the blank drive in the system in the bios.

[Dutch_Master]

Open a terminal then copy/paste this command:

sudo fsck /dev/sd*

This performs a file check on all drives. Let it all finish. Reboot.

[chris7797]

59 minutes ago, Dutch_Master said:

Open a terminal then copy/paste this command:

sudo fsck /dev/sd*

This performs a file check on all drives. Let it all finish. Reboot.

That didnt work. something failed.  If i went into drives i could see it and all the partitions on it but that was about it.  

 

Is there a way i can just put in a new hard drive install windows and recover the raid array?  

[chris7797]

Just an update.  I installed a brand new SSD and a fresh Windows install.  Before I did this i removed the HBA card from the motherboard.  Once windows finished and installed programs and updates I installed the HBA card and the drives showed up and the array intact and working.  Thanks all that helped.