Aaargh I'm a complete cretin!!!! help

beast · 1 Feb 2007 at 22:53

In the top ten list of things NOT to do, I think I'm firmly at the top spot :rolleyes:

Was looking to rid my quick launch tray of some icons to make startup faster. One of them was the gigabyte RAID configurer. I am running RAID 0, but didn't think this actually did anything other than allow you to play about with the settings. I assumed, as I'd told the OS about RAID using a floppy disk during installation, that this icon doesn't actually do anything. I then uninstalled it.

I can now longer boot into Windows.

I can't even boot in safe mode. I've lost everything haven't I? I'm such a d**k. I tried to put the motherboard disc in but that just starts xpress recovery 2, that says there is no OS on the hard drive.

Is there anything I can do? Spent weeks getting all that software on there too :mad:

beast · 2 Feb 2007 at 10:26

Yeah that's my thoughts. But I know that when I stick the repair CD in, it's gonna say "no OS detected" just like the motherboard disc. I can't believe there was no warning when I uninstalled it :mad:

beast · 2 Feb 2007 at 11:35

It's gotta be worth a go, huh! The alternative is Reformat number.....7 :eek:

beast · 2 Feb 2007 at 15:25

Right, I doubt repair/installing the drivers will make any difference, here's why:

The BIOS sees the two drives as RAID 0, I get the screen saying so on bootup. Without the floppy driver, that would not happen. The windows Icon flashes up but that's as far as I get each and every time.

I doubt it's coincidence, Because I uninstalled the Gigabyte BIOS configurer, restarted, and it hasn't worked since!

I think I'm up poo creek without a paddle. Really infuriating to think that there's just one little driver between me and all my games/pics/documents that I didn't back up :rolleyes:

beast · 2 Feb 2007 at 22:41

Hello - I'm typing away on my PC now

Took 2 hours for a complete re-install, then installing office XP, Lan drivers, chipset drivers, intel Tat, Audigy 2 you name it I've just installed it

The stupid thing is, that Gigabyte RAID configurer is not even there on startup, you can run the PC just fine without it. Yet if you install then un-install it, you fubar the PC.

Gigabyte - You suck!