# New Problem - RAID Problem
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-problem-raid-problem/12836
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [June 2, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-problem-raid-problem/12836 "2006-06-02T14:53:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-problem-raid-problem/12836/1 "2006-06-02T14:53:46Z")
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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### Author:  [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-problem-raid-problem/12836/2 "2006-06-02T14:55:55Z")
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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### Author:  [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-problem-raid-problem/12836/3 "2006-06-02T15:00:52Z")
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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### Author:  [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-problem-raid-problem/12836/4 "2006-06-02T15:01:50Z")
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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### Author:  [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-problem-raid-problem/12836/5 "2006-06-02T15:26:30Z")
I tried fiXBOOT that didn’t help.
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### Author:  [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-problem-raid-problem/12836/6 "2006-06-02T20:26:11Z")
> [@walter](#):
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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?
what raid are u running?
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### Author:  [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2006, 7:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-problem-raid-problem/12836/7 "2006-06-03T07:14:05Z")
RAID 1 (mirroring?)
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### Author:  [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2006, 8:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-problem-raid-problem/12836/8 "2006-06-03T08:38:11Z")
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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### Author:  [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2006, 8:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-problem-raid-problem/12836/9 "2006-06-04T08:03:27Z")
no other ideas?
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### Author:  [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2006, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-problem-raid-problem/12836/10 "2006-06-04T09:32:17Z")
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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### Author:  [@Clean\_Baldy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Clean_Baldy)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2006, 11:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-problem-raid-problem/12836/11 "2006-06-04T11:51:44Z")
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.
Hope this helps point you in the right direction
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### Author:  [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-problem-raid-problem/12836/12 "2006-06-04T16:09:23Z")
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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### Author:  [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-problem-raid-problem/12836/13 "2006-06-04T16:23:23Z")
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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### Author:  [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-problem-raid-problem/12836/14 "2006-06-04T16:41:14Z")
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