Raid-0 issue - helpful advice needed!!!

Jim8383 · 12 Oct 2006 at 20:27

Evening all,

I have just received by MB (Asus A7N8X-Deluxe) back from OCUK on an RMA after it completely died!

Have a Raid-0 set of 2 samsung 160GB spinpoints SATA. (no back up - silly i know)

Have plugged everything back in as normal (drives in the same order). On boot it sees the striped set set, starts the boot into windows as normal but then displays blue screen error 0X0000007B ! have booted from a windows CD and it sees the two drives with the orginal 4 partitions on it. Drive names, free space etc. A friend has recommended booting from a new copy of windows on an IDE driver and seeing what can be recovered from the raid set running it as a slave set of drives.

Wanted some more advice before buying an IDE drive!

Also there is no option in the raid menu to rebuild a striped raid set only a mirrored raid set.

Please advise.

Thanks

Jim8383 · 12 Oct 2006 at 21:19

no ideas?

snowdog · 12 Oct 2006 at 22:01

Retry reinstalling windows on the raid array ( without formatting etc) in the same directory as before and try booting up again?
Blue srceen when booting eitehr means very bad stability ( happens when trying to boot on a way too big overclock, faulty ram, etc... ) or damaged windows files.

If reinstalling windows wont work then i suppsoe you're forced to plug in a 3rd hdd, wit ha windows install ( or install it urself), set boot priority in bios to that hdd, boot up to windows, install raid driver, and just copy everything from raid array to standalone hdd.

ByteJuggler · 13 Oct 2006 at 01:52

As snowdog said, try a recovery install of windows. It seem like your windows installation got slightly borked when the mobo died.

(It would be prudent to make backups of stuff you absolutely cannot lose now, just in case, while you have the chance. )

AngusM · 13 Oct 2006 at 12:11

Depending on how much you value your data, personally I would fork out for a new hard drive and set up Windows on that, then try and recover your RAID. This is what I did when my RAID-0 was corrupted, I used RTTS to get it back and I got virtually everything back - though in that case it had a hardware failure so not quite your problem.
After this fright (my backups were weeks old and all the most vital stuff was recent...) next time I set it up as RAID-1.
Good luck!