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Hard Drives Repeatedly Converting to RAW
Greetings! I have learned a lot from these forums, but have never been so perplexed as to need a separate topic. I am at my wits end and would appreciate some brainstorming help. Early last year (March 2021) I built a nice fast PC using an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU, 128 GB DDR4 G.Skill RAM, ASUS ROG Strix X570-E Gaming motherboard, Corsair Power Supply RM 750W CP-9020055-NA, a Seagate Firecuda 520 2TB NVMe SSD for my boot drive, a WD 4TB SSD where I installed programs and two Seagate 12TB IronWolf Pro HDDs run in Raid 1 to hold my files. My files consist of files that are on Dropbox and OneDrive. Everything was great until one day in November 2021, my Raid drive(s) containing my files failed to show up in Explorer, but were visible in Bios and in Disk Management as RAW. I was in a panic and needed a PC and initially thought it was my motherboard, because the Ethernet port was not working AND because the Raid drives were not working. So...
...I ordered a new motherboard (ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus (Wi-Fi), ordered a new Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMe drive for my boot drive, a new PNY CS900 4TB SSD for Programs and two new Seagate 12 TB IronWolf drives for files in Raid 1. and basically build a new PC, with the exception of the CPU, RAM and Power Supply. Reinstalled Windows 10 Pro, reinstalled programs and relinked Dropbox and Onedrive to my new Raid drives. Fast forward two months later (i.e. a few days ago) and boom...same failure. The Raid drives went RAW...
So, I looked through all (or most) of the entries here regarding NTFS disks turning RAW and tried everything. I am fortunate that all of my files are on Dropbox and Onedrive. I am able to reformat the drives and relink Dropbox and Onedrive, but even after only installing one hard drive, not in Raid, formatting to NTFS and relinking Dropbox and Onedrive, the drive (actually, all four drives, not in any Raid array, on different attempts) will go back to RAW after a reboot.
I wondered if one of my cloud files had a virus, but I have an older PC that has all of the same Dropbox and Onedrive files synced and have had no problems on the PC, which I built in 2013. So, I do not believe any of the files in Dropbox or Onedrive have a virus that is causing this.
Does anyone have any ideas (if you read this far)?! The ONLY thing I can think of is that somehow my power supply may be faulty? Despite all my reading, I just don't understand enough about WHY a drive may be caused to lose NTSF recognition.
Thank you SOOOOO much to anyone who read this far and for any help...