Soldato
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Anyone else had this problem. I have three disks, all were run as standalone disks when I installed Windows 7 on the smallest of the three. Once installed I had to get data off of one of the other two disks which I did by copying stuff all over the place (to Windows 7 C drive, memory sticks, external passport drive). After doing this I went into the BIOS to configure the raid 1 made up of the two large disks. There were two places I saw the Raid Mode option. The first Raid Mode setting only had the values of "AHCI or IDE" to select from so I left it at default (IDE). The second Raid Mode setting I found was under the On ATA Chip section (or similarly named) which had the values "RAID, IDE, AHCI" for Raid Mode. It was already at IDE so I set this one to RAID.
Next up I rebooted the machine and then saw the raid display which was now displayed so hit CTRL-I to go into the raid configuration. I configured the raid and saved.
After doing this I rebooted the box but now after intially seeing the Windows 7 animation as Windows 7 starts to load it just blue screens and instantly reboots and gets stuck in this loop of blue screening and rebooting.
Anyone had this? Windows does give me the option of trying to recover but haven`t tried this yet as I don`t want to reinstall due to crucial data being spread across the C drive that I need to preserve.
Nothing is ever easy! When I set the raid option back to IDE (not RAID) and reboot all is fine but of coruse the two disks show up as individual drives again.
I am assuming the C drive is recognised as Windows 7 starts to boot (with the animation that appears as it loads) but the animimation just freezes before blue screening and rebooting
Next up I rebooted the machine and then saw the raid display which was now displayed so hit CTRL-I to go into the raid configuration. I configured the raid and saved.
After doing this I rebooted the box but now after intially seeing the Windows 7 animation as Windows 7 starts to load it just blue screens and instantly reboots and gets stuck in this loop of blue screening and rebooting.
Anyone had this? Windows does give me the option of trying to recover but haven`t tried this yet as I don`t want to reinstall due to crucial data being spread across the C drive that I need to preserve.
Nothing is ever easy! When I set the raid option back to IDE (not RAID) and reboot all is fine but of coruse the two disks show up as individual drives again.
I am assuming the C drive is recognised as Windows 7 starts to boot (with the animation that appears as it loads) but the animimation just freezes before blue screening and rebooting
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