New Problem - RAID Problem

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Oi, lucky week eh?

Anyway, when my computer fubar’d itself the other day, for some reason, the BIOS switched itself from “SATA as RAID” to normal. As a result, when I got the machine up and running, it had 2 HDs showing. I went and switched it back to “SATA as RAID” in the BIOS, but it gives me a NTLDR error message and restarts.

How do I fix it? Am I going to have to “repair” windows via my XP setup CD again with the RAID turned on properly this time?

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oh man

if you had data on two hard drives and then something initialized a raid

bad news man.

if its a dell it wipes the drive before initializing the raid.

send your drives to me. dont try anything else and pray

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reread the post.

It was originally a RAID.

I want it to be a RAID.

I dunno wtf happened, but now it’s not a RAID, just two duplicated HDs. Any way to get it back?

And I’m not sending my drives anywhere.

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My logic being, if one HD had failed in the array, I could pull the other HD, and pop in a new one, and it would rebuild itself right? But, for some reason when XP “repaired” itself, it did it on a non RAID setup. :cjerk:

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I tried fiXBOOT that didn’t help.

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what raid are u running?

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RAID 1 (mirroring?)

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so then you didn’t lose any data, right?

just go to disk management and reinitilize the raid. (assuming your using windows to manage the raid)

because it was a mirror you will be fine.

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no other ideas?

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Well I tried Windows Repair and no luck> When set to RAID, when I get to the setup portion of the setup, it doesn’t recgonize that there are any current installs. Ugh. I’m out of ideas. Any others?

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Is it RAID on the motherboard? You may just have to boot up and push the F+# to enter the RAID configuration and rebuild it. Make sure to choose the correct drive to create the RAID from… don’t go backwards :slight_smile:

If its RAID from a secondhand PCI card, again… its either a before-windows key combo, or a program inside of windows that you can use to fix the RAID.

You’re not completely screwed. It happened to me too, but my RAID was built into the motherboard. I just had to go into the boot-up configuration, and recreate it.

Hope this helps point you in the right direction

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Your boot.ini file has probably been changed. You need to point it to the Raid device instead of the first HD. With luck, that will fix your issue.

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RAID from Mobo. nothing in the utility that loads at startup seems to help. I’ll check again.

Copy of boot.ini

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=“Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

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This is what it says when I load the config utility.

Intel RAID for SATA - RAID Configuration Utility

Main Menu

  1. Create RAID Volume
  2. Delete RAID Volume
  3. Reset Disks to Non RAID
  4. Exit

Disk / Volume Information
RAID Volume:

ID Name / Level / Strip / Size / Status / Bootable
0 WF_RAID_Vol1 / RAID 1 (mirroring) / / 232.8GB / Normal / Yes