Hi,

I am trying to follow Ictinike's guide on Recovering Intel RAID "Non-Member Disk" Error found here,

Ictinike's RAID recovery Guide

I have recreated my RAID array as per the instructions.

However my RAID array status is then automatically set to: INITIALIZE

When I boot back into my Windows XP desktop, the Intel Matrix Storage Utility begins to "Initialize" my drives.

This is a long slow process that will take about 20 hours. I suspect all my data will be lost.

I have gone back into my bios and disabled my RAID controller to prevent any further initialization and data loss. I have read that initialization will cause data loss. I've also read somewhere that it won't. I am not so confident in the latter.

Is there anyway to stop this initialization process so I can continue to follow the steps in the recovery guide?

Some system specs: ABIT IP35 Pro Motherboard ICH9R on board RAID controller