Now it seems I've run into another issue. Of course I want to know exactly how this RAID system works so I know exactly what to do if a disk breaks down. I ran into the issue when I booted the HDD in IDE mode again, added a couple of files to HDD#1 and deleted the partition on HDD#2 before rebooting the PC and setting it back to RAID again. I've also tried to disconnecting the HDD#2 for a boot. My issue/problem is, I can't seem to be able to re-build the RAID 1. It says it's functional in the RAID menu under FastBuilt Utility, and everything seems like it should in Windows. I've transferred files to it. Waited for a half to a full hour (and there's only 4 files on the HDD#1, all about 1GB each). So everything seems to be going normal, but when I reboot the computer and set it back to IDE mode again the HDD#2 still seem to have no partition, so the RAID doesn't build up again as far as I can see. There is no rebuild function in FastBuild Utility as far as I can see. I also tried to delete the LD with the functional RAID for then to redefine a RAID 1 with those two HDDs, but that didn't seem to do anything.
Anyone know how to rebuild a RAID 1 on this mobo?
EDIT:
I did two reboots with both disks in RAID 1 to see if that would have any effect. I got a blue screen (not of death) when booting up Windows XP. It wanted to check my disk, but I only had like 2-3 seconds to respond, and I couldn't read it that fast (because I didn't expect it), and then it said something about it found allocated space that wasn't used or something. Maybe something about removing or deleting or something. In any case, the HDD with the RAID was then empty when I finally was able to look at it in Windows. -_-' Perhaps if I stop it from doing that check... hmm, or maybe it needs to be on for like x amount of hours before it has compared the two disks or something??? :s
2nd EDIT:
This is so backwards, in any case, if I stop Windows from deleting everything on the disk and then reboot I do get some warning message from FastBuild Utility, and I checked the status of the LD, it said rebuilding. Hmm!! In any case, if a HDD crashes and it does have the same on both HDDs I can at least boot up the other one and take backup of it before messing around with all of these running into the chance of deleting all the content on the disk again. Not THAT a huge problem at the moment, because all the data is on some of my many other HDDs, but yeah, shouldn't be this difficult and tricky to rebuild the array. I'm going to check if I have the latest BIOS.
3rd EDIT:
I guess I should be doing this:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_programs/how-to-disable-the-chkdsk-check-disk-on-start-up/35f58c69-7a6c-4e1b-aec3-26d7131ec643:p
