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Have an HP Media Center m7684n with 2 500 gig drives configures as RAID 0
(mirrored). I upgraded from XP home to Vista home premium.
Recently, while under warrenty, the primary drive crashed. Secondary drove
took over, and the vendor (CompUSA/HP) replaced the drive and rebuilt the
RAID (not, of course, without a double helping of SH*T from both companies).
Trouble now is that the system won't boot up unless I insert the Vista
startup DVD.
I'll power on, system goes through POST, then hits a black screen with
blinking cursor, and that's IT. I'll insert the startup DVD, power down and
then start up again, and get to a black screen that, after a few seconds,
says 'Hit any key to start from CD...'. If I do nothing, system starts up
with no further problems.
I've tried the 'repair Windows startup files' option several times, but no
problems are ever found to fix. Sue would appreciate any feedback for this.
(mirrored). I upgraded from XP home to Vista home premium.
Recently, while under warrenty, the primary drive crashed. Secondary drove
took over, and the vendor (CompUSA/HP) replaced the drive and rebuilt the
RAID (not, of course, without a double helping of SH*T from both companies).
Trouble now is that the system won't boot up unless I insert the Vista
startup DVD.
I'll power on, system goes through POST, then hits a black screen with
blinking cursor, and that's IT. I'll insert the startup DVD, power down and
then start up again, and get to a black screen that, after a few seconds,
says 'Hit any key to start from CD...'. If I do nothing, system starts up
with no further problems.
I've tried the 'repair Windows startup files' option several times, but no
problems are ever found to fix. Sue would appreciate any feedback for this.