Corrupt hard rive after bios 1.4v ?

i had a raid 0 array 2 x raptors with windows on and a second sata data 1x seagate only drive workng fine with bios 1.1. I then flashed to 1.4. Things looked ok but them my raid windows stops working and i have had to reinstall on a fresh single sata drive. But when i attempt to access the data on the data only drive ( seagate ) it says the drive is corrupt ). Please help, it has all my pictures of the kids on ect ect. and i thought it was safe thats why i did not make a back up when i reinstalled windows.
if i change back to v1.1 do you thihk i will be able to access the drive?

this seems to be common problem with 1.4bios.
Iv got the exact same prolem along a few others, im using wd drives with raid0 ran fine using 1.3
seems to be a raid drivere problem
best changing to 1.3

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