Gigabyte GA-7n400-Pro 2 - RAID 0 Problems - Wont boot - urgent help required

dazzywazzydazzywazzy
edited February 2005 in Hardware
Hi Guys,

I have a computer with the above motherboard, silicon raid chipset of course (crap)

I have two 80 gig HDD's SATA.

Raid was working fine, however the computer all of a sudden stopped booting

I then deleted the raid 0 set, and re-built the raid 0 set, which has now made things worse, as it does not even get to the xp screen with an error or anything, it just says insert book disk etc (of course meaning it cant find a valid boot device, my HDD's)

It is finding the HDD's and the raid set ok at boot

Things i have done:

Attempted to get into repair console on xp pro boot cd, gets in ok with the correct si3112 driver loaded on boot, gets to a C:\ prompt but says "invalid path specified"

I have changed to a D:\ prompt and ran "fixmbr" that didnt work either

i have tried deleting the raid set and re-building it various times

i have tried deleted the raid set altogether and trying it as one HDD without any luck


Please please please will someone help me out asap

thanks

Comments

  • floppybootstompfloppybootstomp Greenwich New
    edited January 2005
    It doesn't sound like the RAID set that's at fault there but rather your mbr.

    If that's corrupted, it wouldn't boot. I'm assuming you're using Win XP.

    If you've rebuilt the RAID set, it's likely you've completely fubared any OS install.

    I've never suffered a crash with Win XP, touch wood, but I've attempted to fix a few friends' crashed XP systems, all unsuccesfully.

    It looks as though you'll have to do a fresh install.
    i have tried deleted the raid set altogether and trying it as one HDD without any luck

    You tried to boot from just one of the RAID 0 disks? Now, that really isn't going to work, is it? ;)
  • dazzywazzydazzywazzy
    edited January 2005
    HI again guys

    anyone else have any other responses, especially as into any other way restoring the MBR or any data???

    this is really urgent

    thanks
  • soupie21soupie21
    edited February 2005
    Hi,
    I run this board,I like it.....anyhow
    Since you have deleted the raid set the metadata has changed on the drives which is why it wont boot to OS

    The only option you have now is to reinstall windows from scratch,in the future never delete a raid set until absolutely necessary,unless the data is vital I would consider it gone as it would not be possible to recover all of it.....
  • dragonV8dragonV8 not here much New
    edited February 2005
    What about a fresh install on another disk and hooking the raid disks up after to retrieve any data? Is that possible?
  • soupie21soupie21
    edited February 2005
    Hi,
    To be honest I am not sure :scratch::thumbsup: ,I would try it and see,please post if it works :thumbsup:
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