W540 Removal of Raid

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• How to remove the RAID 0 U940 satellite?

  How can I remove RAID 0 configuration of a Windows 8 Toshiba Satellite U940?

  As far as I know in the past, if the RAID option was available, it was in the BIOS or preinstalled Toshiba RAID Utility. It was for example laptop Qosmio with two identical inside drives. I m not sure but I think that U940 doesn't have this configuration.

  What do you do exactly?

• W540 Option SATA (RAID or AHCI), disappeared after the update of the BIOS to 2.05

  W540 20BG001CGE, had 1.05 BIOS and RAID 1 with two 840 Samsung 1 TB EVO works well under Windows 7 - x 64. Do you have one (by lenovo recommended tool update) update BIOS with the Manager to update the bios to 2.05. Update went very well. After the reboot (and load defaults, disabling Intel Rapid Start, boot to BIOS option change the legacy of all first... I recognized the SATA (RAID or AHCI) in BIOS option disappeared. At boot time Intel Matrix Storage Configuration doesnot appear (where you can create RAID etc.).

  Startup then displays message "missing operating system".

  Downgrade BIOS 1.05 impossible, due to ISO file on www.lenovo.com support is not compatible, system message "Lenovo Group Limited - disc system not valid." Replace drive you and then press any key")

  (The link to the ISO file version 1.05 at the bottom of this page of links not a bootable ISO image)

  http://support.Lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?docid=DS039078)

  Also the downgrade to BIOS version 1.08 found here http://www.notebook-driver.com/detail/thinkpad-driver-id-22182/ doesnot work CD also messages "Lenovo Group Limited - invalid system disk - replace... »).

  Rewrite of the BIOS version 2.05 (GNET57WW) doesnot work (says "BIOS update is not necessary").

  Embedded Controller Version GMHT25WW (1.10) ME Firmware Version 9.0.22.1467.

  Anyone has a suggestion of what to try next? Someone has a tip how to recover my RAID controller?

  Thanks and have fun

  
  

• Satellite U940 PSU6VA - recover after removing the software RAID

  * My specifications: *.
  * Model: * Toshiba Ultrabook (Satellite PSU6VA - 00S 002 U940)
  * Operating system: * Windows 8.1 x 64 (upgrade of Windows 8 x 64)
  * Storage: * 500 GB + SSD 30 GB HARD drive

  This particular model of Toshiba comes with two hard drives (a HARD drive and SSD) and uses the SSD for caching purposes. I think to disable this caching so that I can use the SSD for other purposes.

  However, according to the observations of MannerhagenVPO in [this thread | http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=79976]:
  -This caching is implemented with a software RAID
  -To access the SSD, you must remove the RAID software
  -Once deleted, software RAID can be restored by an authorized Service Professional. Even the Toshiba recovery media will not be able to restore it.

  I'm not really worried about permanently losing the caching features. What concerns me is this: the Toshiba recovery media will always be able to restore Windows 8 (but without caching)? Or the recovery media Toshiba will become completely useless if software RAID is deleted?

  As far as I know the RAID features will be removed if replace you / remove or change the SSD or HARD disk drive.

  In any case, using recovery media created by Toshiba Recovery media creator software you should be able to reinstall the Toshiba preinstalled system

• Mac Mini server RAID spoil

  This follows a previous thread of mine.  Previously, the Mac mini server (2009, 3.1 I think) would not start.  The Apple logo and the spinning wheel seems forever.

  I found the boot disk and a USB optical drive and so I went in disk utility.  I got the software RAID 1 set up.  Hard drives were fine, physically, but the whole RAID said it is "degraded" and one of the volumes said it failed.  I tried rebuilding it but failed.  I did not delete the volume down, instead, I deleted the whole RAID, thinking that I would be able to start the disks as standalone.  Instead, or volumes are mounted, they not only mount when I click Mount, and when I turn on the machine, I now get the folder with the?.  No volumes appear when I hold down the option key when starting.  I tried discs of fixation of the Terminal and he says they were mounted with success, but they were not.  I must be missing something in the commands, I don't know them well.  I tried to create a new RAID array, but he said that all the data would be deleted.  At any given time, two RAID volumes said that they failed, and then the RAID array would not appear or appear offline as opposed to gradient.

  I screwed myself by removing the raid array?  Both drives are dismantled and their partition type is "Apple_RAID_Offline".

  Can I fix this and back up my data?

  I fixed readers are not mounted or named myself.  They are (were) mounted as an independent non-RAID drives.  They needed to be repaired and could not repair one of them says however, disk utility.  Disk utility also told me at my backup files and wipe the readers.  How can I back up my files if I can't start the machine?  There is no Finder on Mac OS X Server installation disc.

  Any suggestions?

  Solution to readers being dismantled: https://www.27partners.com/2010/07/repairing-appleraid/

• Qosmio G20 102: problem RAID the installation of windows xp media center

  First of all I did not the raid driver for my qosmio. I tried the RAID of Qosmio G20, another pilot but when it reached the stage when I ask windows to format the C driver it shows me an error. It is said that there is an error in the KR10N file and it stops there.
  Please help me and thank you.

  Hello

  It seems that the Qosmio G20 102 belongs to the series of PQG20E.
  Research on the European driver Toshiba page I found the RAID for Windows XP MCE driver v1.03.0008 (can also be used with XP Pro).

  You will need an external USB FDD to include this driver in the operating system.
  But note; After installing the RAID driver you shouldn't t format the HARD disk or create a new partition, because that will remove the RAID driver from the HARD disk and installing the OS fails!

  I hope I could help you would also appreciate a feedback ;)
  Best regards

• TS140 RAID 100 controller listed do not as a controller of storage in Windows Server R2 2012

  Establishing a new TS140. Installed SSD as drive. Installed Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Software, no UEFI strives. As a second drive, installed a 500 GB HARD drive. Everything is OK.

  Installed 2-4 TB HDDs. Windows can see the disks. Rebooted and went to set up the RAID volume. Made sure the CSM has been activated. To restart the server, has encountered an error. I removed the RAID volume and reset to SATA RAID not.

  I then looked in Windows features and I saw that the only listed storage controller is the variety of Windows one spaces. I think that's the problem.

  Once installed Win2K, how can I add the RAID 100 as a storage controller?

  Thank you

  John

  Problem solved. I'd missed initially 'Load the Driver' stage when selecting an installation location, after selecting the l; apartment, I clicked on "Load driver" ther, but which did not load the driver. Reinstalled Windows successfully.

• 2008 mac Pro Apple Raid card problems, help!

  Hello, I have a mac pro 2008 with a raid set up. I want to get rid of all old raid together upwards and instead put a new ssd in the first Bay. The computer cannot read it because I think that it is always configured as a raid. Does anyone know how to make the available drive bays to new readers? You're help would be highly appreciated. I want to take the Apple Raid card so I can have an additional PCI port and I also want to get out the discs four raid. Just so I can put in a single ssd! Thank you very much.

  When you remove the Apple RAID card, readers who were searched will be unreadable. You need to make backups before time, because there is no way known to them read differently.

  There is a data cable, called the iPass cable connected to the motherboard to the RAID card. You must remove this cable when you remove the RAID card and reconnect the plug corresponding on the motherboard. Once you do this, you get four bays returned as SATA bays and can install any drives that you like. The problem with a lot of SSDS is that they are 2.5-inch form factor drives and may not fit on a standard sled. Users have used an IcyDock (in the 2008 version and earlier versions) or the newer technology adaptadrive:

  http://eShop.MacSales.com/item/NewerTech/ADPTADRV/

  ... to get the alignment and attached straightened.

• HELP for re - configure RAID

  I have a windows 8/4th GEN Envy 17 jo29nr. What they do not mention in the description of the form, it's that it comes with a 25 GB SSD for caching. In addition, the standard drive is a disk of 1 TB 5400 RPM / min. I removed the RAID to install an SSD, but now, I want to just put a 750 GB drive at 7200 RPM and reconfigure the RAID for the use of the Intel memory smart caching. But when I go to set up a RAID 0 volume, it will only allow me to (approximately) 44GB, twice the size of the available mSATA SSD. There is literally no option that will change that. Any help would be appreciated big time.

  Heretikos,

  When configuring RAID 0 with 2 hard disks of different size it always diminishes the largest room of the same size as the smallest for interlacing.

  The smallest mSATA SSD in the system is to set up the Cache and no RAID 0 in the Intel rapid storage technology. It's original installation on your laptop.

  Let me know if your still following this thread I'd like to talk with you more about this.

• Remove the W510 RAID1?

  Hi all.

  These past 'issues' with my W500 has me shopping for a new.  PCMall W510... Best sellers

  in stock, etc.  I can really play with computer reliablity, so I bought one.

  He has shown with 2 hard drives in RAID1.  I'm debating remove a HARD drive or not and

  install an optical drive.  RAID1 might be best for reliablitiy long term, but I'm used to make frequent

  backups and would like the optical (by machine) onhand when I need.

  Wonder, since its RAID1, it would be as easy as just turn off the RAID in the bios and taking into

  on the 2nd HARD drive?  or it's much more complex than that?

  (the w510 is of course different from that of the 500.  feels much lighter! -He showed up with a cracked LCD screen and

  goes back... but that's a different question.  with the holidays, I am interested in the resolution of Tuesday... I hope

  PC Mall is well... I was disappointed because I was looking forward to playing all weekend)...

  Thank you all!

  Tony

  Hi outofstepper,

  Sorry to hear about the broken LCD screen

  It is quite easy to remove the raid, but the data will be lost. Take a look at this link which will describe the procedure:

  http://www-307.IBM.com/PC/support/site.WSS/document.do?sitestyle=Lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-75086

  RAID 1 will usually IO a little faster that a single HD RAID 1 is not an option that will replace the need for a backup. You are protected HD failure using RAID 1, but will not be protected against data corruption because corrupt data will be mirrored to the two HARD drives, so even with RAID 1 is a good idea to take a backup of your system. If you always make sure you backup your data, I guess that you can fine without RAID 1, but in the case of a failure of HD, you will need to replace the HD, run a restore and all changes after the last backup will be lost. Using RAID 1, you can continue to work and just replace the drive HARD failed when you get a new one. Two HARD drives will consume more energy as well if the battery life is important to you.

  I got a W510, do not use RAID functions, perform frequent backups and got an optical drive. Need the optical drive so I would have picked that instead of RAID in all cases. I also replaced the HARD drive by an Intel SSD that really gave me a performance boost.

  -gan

• EqualLogic configuration and restrictions of RAID

  We realize that there is NO way we can remove the existing RAID array so that we can replace several drives at once only to rebuild a new RAID. Feedback from the Engineer Support of Dell that if we act with this, we will need to use a connection series for reset and reconfigure the EQL scratch all on again once. Is this true?

  Is there really no way to replace several drives in EQL without having to reset the entire system?

  We meet also restart and EQL will stop when he was not able to rebuild the RAID, taking the storage offline without giving any possibility to proceed. So we are forced to connect return old hard disks and wait for it to rebuild the RAID. And despite having zero data and zero volume, reconstruction takes always the hours to complete.

  Low-end NAS allow to remove the RAID and replace all disks while keeping the existing configuration. However, it seems that high-end EQL has no way to retain the existing configuration if need to replace multiple disks or RAID could not rebuild.

  Is there a way we can save the existing configuration, we can restore?

  Finally, it will be good if EQL could show what channel/RAID 50 each hard drive is a place where we can replace up to 4 HDDs without bringing the RAID rebuild process to a halt and cause a stop and restart again.

  A connect as that of grpadmin?

  GrpName > save-config?

  -verbose--display on-screen orders t recording

  He gives.

  -grouponly - generates orders for members and pool configuration

  tion.

  -Name of the file to which orders will be recorded.

  GrpName > save-config backup - config.txt

  Saved backup configuration - config.txt.

  You can recover the file using ftp or scp.

• Initial configuration of RAID HP ENVY accidentally erased, deleted hard disk?

  I was trying to see if I could find an option to change the my new laptop on AHCI SATA controller, but I should have checked more thoroughly online before trying something new in the BIOS.  It seems that these laptops are automatically in AHCI?

  My laptop had a 1 TB SSHD and a 24GB flash hard drive Cache acceleration configured in RAID 0.  With my minimal knowledge of the AHCI, RAID and IDE, I thought that the withdrawal of the RAID configuration would give me a possibility to change the hard drive in AHCI controller.  Without thinking, I "removed" the RAID volume, and I think I have completely erase my new hard drive and the operating system, including the recovery partition.

  When I start up the laptop, I get the error "boot device not found 3f0", and f11 does not work to try to get into the recovery mode.  The hard drive test always passes the two elements.  I ordered at HP USB recovery media earlier, but I don't know if there is anything else I can do?

  I don't know exactly how the acceleration of the Disk Cache, but my main question is why only SSHD would be setup in RAID 0 factory mode, and if there is a good reason, how do I put up again after the reinstallation of the OS from the USB media?

  After screwing my OS, I played in the BIOS to re - setup the RAID0, but I don't know that I've got it right.  I myself remember the size of the band was set to 128 KB, but I have no idea what was the "Capacity (MB)", or should I put it when I create new RAID?

  Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you.

  Ryan

  Hi, Popo:

  I didn't get the rush of shipped recovery media.

  When you order by regular mail, it may take up to 10 days, so unless you're bored to death, so I would just wait until your recovery media is coming tomorrow.

  Yes, you are right.  The file I gave you is a simple vanilla W8 version and there are no programs whatsoever other than that which accompanies the W8.

  The product key in the BIOS of your PC will work with this file and you get the recovery media.

  You can always want to DL this file and make a bootable DVD just as it is for future use.

  After installing W8, you get the upgrade to W8.1 against the Windows store.

  It may take a few hours to appear as a sort of update should run before updating the W8.1 appears in the Windows store.

  You won't have to look for.

  It will be displayed when you click the windows store.

  You will be able to switch to W8.1 with the regular ISO W8 file, or your installation HP factory.

• XPS9100 disk RAID failure

  One of the drives of 500 GB SATA 150 7200 RPM RAID is dead.   When starting, I get a message "ARRAY0" degraded and takes forever to start up.   Using the configuration of F2 at startup option SATA2 is not detected and SATA3 shows a hard drive.   I guess that SATA2 is the defective drive and HDD1 in the chassis.   What is the procedure to replace the drive with a new drive?

  What type of RAID?  If you have a table striped, RAID 0, you must save any data you want to stay on an external, remove the RAID (assuming you want to keep the player which is ok), replace the defective disk, create a new RAID 0 and perform a manual of your operating system and all applications that you want to use.

  If the RAID is RAID 1, a mirror, you can recover by replacing the disc which is a failure and the RAID ROM will rebuild the table using the right disk.

  If you need additional help, please reply.

• UCS C22 M3 software RAID LSI problem with hard drive

  Hello

  I post here because I searched many hours for a stupid problem.

  I have a Cisco UCS C22 M3 with soft RAID LSI MagicRAID.
  I have two hard disk of 1 TB.
  I create a RAID array with the type 1 (mirror).

  When I run the installation of VMware ESXi 5.1 U1 I see the RAID array, but the two discs.
  I think that it is a driver problem.
  So, I install special with an iso VMware in the VMware Web site for Cisco server.
  I have test with ESXi 5.0 and 5.1, and 5.1 U1 but it's the same problem.

  I try to remove the RAID array and to install esx on disc one monkey. Installation works well, but in the boot menu, I can't boot from a hard disk. I don't know why I search with UEFI and she is disabled.

  I test with windows 2012, and 2008R2 to check if its working but in install I don't see also hard drive or the RAID array.
  I go to Cisco and download the driver of the 2G for VMware Linux and Windows.
  I try inserting the driver in windows install, but does not.
  I think that the driver for a hardware RAID card and software.

  I have try to disable the LSI RAID in the advanced bios "SouthBridge". After I disabled I don't know how I can do to start on the hard drive.
  When I go to the start menu (F6) I see absolutely nothing in drive.

  I test this on two Cisco server.

  I can't know what I can do now. I take a working installation tomorrow and nothing.

  I join you a photo of the boot sequence LSI.

  Thank you very much.

  Sent by Cisco Support technique iPhone App

  Stephane,

  For what I understand, you use the RAID controller integrated, therefore, these drivers will not work you:

  -LSI 92xx

  -LSI 106xE

  -LSI 2008 M

  -INS 3081E-R

  -LSI8708EM2

  -LSI 9201< all="" of="" the="" above="" are="" not="" the="" controller="" you="">

  -CISO 1225 x< this="" is="" for="" the="" vic="">

  -CISCO P81E< this="" is="" for="" the="" 1st="" generation="" of="" vic="" cards,="" so="" definitely="" not="" a="" raid="">

  Pilots are organized into top level by operating system folders, and each folder of OS has a structured series hierarchically who become more specific subfolders so that you can find the exact drivers you need. When you navigate to a folder containing the drivers, it will contain also one or several README files that explains what are these drivers in particular.

  Here is an example of the structure of folder for Windows:

  Windows    ChipSet       vendor          blade-model-number             OS-version-number                All                ia64                Lang (contains language subfolders)                Vista                x64

  You need to look for: /< OS > / storage/Intel/C600 /.< if="" you="" are ="" doing="" the="" installation="" of="" the="" os="" through="" the="" kvm,="" you="" first="" need="" to="" un-mount="" the="" os="" .iso="" image="" to="" mount="" the="" drivers,="" once="" the="" drivers="" are="" done,="" un-mount="" the="" drivers="" and="" mount="" again="" the="" os="" .iso="">

  If it does not, you better open a TAC case that will allow us to put in place an additional troubleshooting Webex meeting.

  -Kenny

• Dell PowerEdge 2900 RAID and drive down

  I have a Dell PowerEdge 2900 server. The primary transmission table has three drives and RAID 5. The system came this way, and it has been humming for quite a long time. Recently, one of the disks has deteriorated and the light on the drive flashes green and light amber. The light amber, I figured, it means that there is a problem with the drive and must be replaced. Then, I found a replacement on Amazon.com drive and installed (the drive is hot, but my cold started to be sure). I installed the drive, but keeps flashing green and amber light.

  I didn't know that I shouldn't have to replace the drive in this way, so I will now try to figure out what to do next. I hoped to reallocate the foreign disk so that I can use it, but my server always shows the reader, not having even if the new replacement drive is in the slot, now.

  I'm running PERC 5 / I integrated utility of Configuration Bios 1.04 - 019 a

  I started the server and you press CTRL-R. I've highlighted the controller and press the F2 key, what is operations. When the operations window opens, there are three menu items:

  Create new VD
  Zero Config reset
  Foreign config

  The only thing that I am allowed to do in this menu is to reset the configuration. I can't move my cursor upwards or downwards for one of the other choice of two menu.

  Scroll when the virtual disk and he discovers, it still shows the first two discs and a lack.

  When I press CTRL + N to display the next screen, I see a player listed as failed.

  How can I rebuild my RAID with this new drive? If I can't do it, what is the best way to remove the RAID and start over? If I delete the RAID and do it again (and if my replacement drive is indeed well), how can I make sure that my server not to see it, not having so that I can start using it?

  Alternating flashing green/orange means that the disc is in a status of predictive failure. What OS is running system? If you hotswap drive next failure they may possibly other issues table because the drive was online and participating in the table with errors on the disk. The adequate alternative method is to use our software Openmanage Server Administrator to run a consistency check on the table and then the drive offline. Once this has been done you can then swap the drive. It seems that in your case, that the new drive had bad data copied on it and it made a predictive failure as well. We want to do is run our hard drive diagnostics and test drives in the system.

  http://downloads.Dell.com/FOLDER01456532M/1/Dell-onlinediags-Win32-2.30.0.70.exe

  Install and run the GUI version in the start menu. In the left pane select the PERC 5 and then in the lower right pane select quick test and then to run tests.