This situation has occurred before and, in ZimaOS 1.5.x, there is no user-accessible UI option to import or re-attach an existing RAID/storage pool after an OS reinstall. When this happens, the disks will appear individually as unused even though the original pool metadata may still be present.
Because recovery requires visibility of the underlying disk metadata and potentially guided backend steps, this cannot be safely handled via community troubleshooting.
The correct next step is to contact IceWhale directly, as was done successfully in a previous identical case.
Please email community@icewhale.org and include:
- Device model
- ZimaOS version
- Confirmation the pool was originally created by ZimaOS
- Confirmation the disks were not reformatted
- Screenshots of the Storage page
IceWhale can confirm whether the pool can be re-associated or advise on supported recovery options.
For clarity, current system backups do not include RAID/storage pool metadata, which is why no restore option appeared after reinstall.
See below link to prievous post with same issue.