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Just moved a 3ware 9500S-8 raid card and a few drives from my linux box into my win7 box. Windows Updates picked up the 3ware driver and installed it. After a reboot I checked Disk Management and it shows the array as one solid drive with the correct size. The only issue is that its not assigned a drive letter and when I right click on it my only option is to Convert to Dynamic Disk... From what I've read this is not something I want to do. What are my options?

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are you expecting the array to already contain partitions/filesystems? – quack quixote May 8 '10 at 1:48
yes, it currently has data on it. – scribbles May 8 '10 at 2:06
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It seems to me that the Raid card has been pre configured in Raid 0 (or something else).

This may mean that your data has already been lost as the Raid card reconfigured your hard drives the moment they were connected.

If you go here You should be able to find various downloads for your Raid card including a management utility that should allow you to reconfigure various options.

The following differs with different manufacturers.

You may be able to set the card to either use no Raid or JBOD - If you can use no raid and just use the controller as extra ports, it should preserve all your data where as JBOD is a type of RAID (e.g. after setting it up as this, the drives may format and only be compatible with your card).

Hope this helps.

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The RAID card and the drives were together in the linux box. I checked in the 3ware BIOS and it still showed them as a group with RAID5 enabled. Unfortunately given the age of the card and 3ware's lack of support, I can't find much info on it. I installed the 3DM2 Utility but when it runs it says "searching for tdm_helper.exe" and the localhost:888 link fails. – scribbles May 8 '10 at 3:01
@user36484 What was the filing system before? it is possible that Windows has detected it and that Raid 5 volume is correct... but it is formatted in a Linux filing system that Windows does not understand. – William Hilsum May 8 '10 at 13:18
I believe I selected FAT32 because I was mainly accessing it via LAN and didn't want any FS issues like that. – scribbles May 8 '10 at 13:33
I am not sure I can really help you any further - but this should of been a non issue - I use EXT3 (I think it is) on my NAS but Samba does all the translations and "magic" to make it accessible from my Windows machine. – William Hilsum May 8 '10 at 15:53
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I installed Ext2Fsd and it recognizes now!

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Windows doesn't have native support for Linux filesystems. You need a third party application to make them readable.

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