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?
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:
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?
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
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.