boot problems

[Allan McDermid]

Hi

I have a raid 0 set up on Vista Ultimate and my problem is that I can only
boot up the machine from the installation disk.

This is how it looks:
disk0 is drive D for storage and disk1 is drive C that includes the OS and
boot.
I tried to do a start up repair but the system seems to think Vista is
installed on drive D, yet when I am in Windows it clearly shows that the
system is on C
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks
Allan.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Run diskmgmt.msc, which drive is active (designated as "system", not the
"boot" drive)? Startup repair will (should) attempt to repair the volume
designated as the system drive, regardless of which one houses the
installation.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Guest]

I have the exact same problem. My system won't boot unless the Vista 64 CD
is in the DVD-Drive. Running diskmgmt.msc shows that my storage drive (Drive
D is designated as "system", even though there's no system on it, while my
RAID-0 Raptor array (Drive C is designated as "boot" but not system. Both
are designated as "active" and "primary partition".

When I boot from the DVD, the recovery console shows my RAID-0 array as
Drive 1 (D and my Storage drive as Drive 0 (C. It sees no problem with
the boot record on the RAID array. I'd really like to get this fixed. Any
help would be greatly appreciated.