OatMan Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 Not sure how to deal with a RAID disk issue: I have a three disk RAID 0 stripe (yes I made my self vulnerable by choosing no data protection) My wife was working at the computer while I was rearanging furniture and the powerstrip became unplugged cutting off the power. Upon Reboot I got a windows error saying a boot file was missing or corrupt, I stupidly did not record the file name or path. I just loaded up my windowsXP disk thinking I could do a repair. Unfortunately when booting to CD I can't see the RAID volume. THen when I rebooted to try and get the file name it now just hangs before getting that far and I can't get any further. Any ideas as to how I could fix this problem or at least be able to see the RAID volume so I can do a backup and rebuild???? TIA Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 Well....if you have a spare hard drive you can load windows onto you might be able to see your raid array...maybe. Otherwise when you tried to repair did you load the raid drivers off of a floppy? That would probably help windows see the array. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmf Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 What does the array look like in the raid bios? You may just have to rebuild the array. Check your bios raid settings..they may have changed with the crash. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
syar2003 Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 Rebuilding array and wipe it all clean is bs. It's classical to get NTFS corrupsion with a bad shutdown. Use the XP cd AND a floppy disk with the ide/raid driver . Boot to xp cd and you must use the F6 to load the nvidia drivers to see the array. Then i suggest you goto recovery console and do a checkdsk on the raid partition that the OS is loaded to. Chkdsk recover files corrupted in NTFS . If that doesn't make the OS bootable again , do a repair install (w/F6 and floppy drivers). Repair install only cleans out C:Windows and it loads parts of the registry hive files from the old install so all your programs still work after . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmf Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 When I said "rebuild" that's what I meant...I did not mean to clear it. I've seen arrays get screwed and raid bios reports separate disks with no array. Just check raid bios and see what it reports. You are correct in that the repair option may work to correct his problem. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OatMan Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 You guys simply RO CK! I was thinking about reloading at f6 in windowsXP boot disk, even had the old floppy, ready, only I wasn't sure if I'd be over writing something and then screwing myself I also thought of the build to a spare drive option. I'll try when I get back and post results. Huge thanks and I'm hoping for the best. I'm sure that if I can get the winXP boot CD to see the RAID a simply repair will do it, just like was said... I'll let you know my progress and post if I have any other questions. Big Thansks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundx98 Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 And Make sure that under INTEGRATED PERIPHIALS that the SATA RAID is enabled and all ports are ENABLED as well. If the CMOS was cleared in any way they would revert to disabled. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OatMan Posted January 16, 2006 Posted January 16, 2006 THanks for the reminder. I did try clearing CMOS it was after that, that I stoped getting to the point where I'd get the corrupted file error, and thus couldn't write down the broken file. anyhoo its CMOS reloaded to the rescue. My running config is in it, so I know it is configured correctly, but I will check to be sure. I do get the RAID healthy message, or at least I did until I rebooted after going into CMOS, anyway none of this makes any difference. I'll make sure everything in BIOS is set correctly and then do f6 from the XP CD. and hopefully see the RAID and the windows OS so I can do a repair. If that fails, I'll try using a spare HDD to make a build to buit from and hopefully be able to see the RAID from there. anyway won't be able to do anything 'till I'm back home tomorrow. Thanks and I'll update. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OatMan Posted January 16, 2006 Posted January 16, 2006 OK well I had to make a new RAID disk using the link from Angry chkdsk didn't work, says "the volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems" how polite. I guess its option two... NOT good. Now the RAID is recognized as a single "unknown" partition. it is not recognizing a previosly installed version of windows. It simply gives me the option to format or delete the existing RAID partition. Looks like I'm screwed. I loading windows to another disk and booting from there, but it then does not see the RAID, it only sees the three separate disks. any ideas? I have to make a go no go call soon 'cause I have lots of other work to do and if I'm going to have to rebuild this system Its going to take forever to get all the software loaded and then start backing up data. At least I have a recent backup, its like a month or so old, assuming that disk isn't corrupted:) anyhoo if anyone has any suggestions please post soon! TIA and thanks again for the help, it should have worked... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OatMan Posted January 16, 2006 Posted January 16, 2006 oops, clicked wrong thing sorry didn't mean to bump Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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