Once again RAID0 strikes. Somehow both of the HDDs that were configured in RAID0 managed to maintain some kind of configuration information from the RAID. Attempted to dual boot Windows 7 and CentOS 5 for the linux course. CentOS did not see my pair of 640GB WD HDDs, instead it saw some kind of RAID config. Took quite a bit of work to discover that the drives still contained a RAID configuration, even though the controllers were set to AHCI in BIOS.
After removing the RAID configuration from both drives my Widows drive no longer booted properly.
I backed up before I started messing with it, but its going to take time to restore. Thanks again, Acronis! Another opportunity to learn and hopefully not have lost anything.
Let this be a lesson, though. RAID0 is a decent performance boost, but in my oppinion is not worth the risks in data loss. Be dilligent and back your data up, even if you do not use a RAID array.
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