HELP! Nvidia raid disappeared

[Mercutio]

Just reinstalled windows XP on system.
XP sits on its own drive (a raptor) with 4 partitions on a 320gb nforce 4 raid-0.
These partitions are missing.

I've loaded the latest nforce driver set and all seems to be good (with the exception that i cant find the small nvidia raid management utility).
Wandered into disk management in the management console and it initialised the raid which is currently showing up as empty space. I installed using the ide driver as from memory this included the nforce raid driver?

I've been here once before (about a year ago) and got 100% of my data back so currently not panicing but asking for help before I start to blunder around on my own.

The drive has not been formatted or played with in any way.

What the hell am I doing wrong?

Edit: Does the nvidia raid management tool only work/appear if the raid was picked up and installed during windows setup. Is there a difference between the driver from the package installed from windows and the driver used at the F6 prompt during setup?

 

[rpstewart]

There should be no difference between RAID the driver loaded during install and the Windows package, the IDE driver that's loaded in Windows just adds some more functionality on top.

I'm struggling a wee bit for ideas here. Since the array is showing in Disk Management I think it's same to assume that the array is healthy, it sounds like there's something up with the partition table. If you right click on the drive icon (to the left of the empty bar) in Disk Management is there an option to import foreign disks?

Which version of the NForce drivers are you using?

 

[Mercutio]

Well - sorted in the end. Rather worryingly it took a reinstall of windows with the floppy drivers at the F6 prompt to get any joy out of the machine. Soon as I installed with the raid picked up during everything was sweet and rosey again.

Very very odd.