Can I recover from this??

[amerar]

Help me please!!

I am running Windows XP and I had 2 serial ATA drives on my ASUS
Motherboard and was using the RAID Stripe option.

Anyhow, I installed a new video card, and first boot gave me a blue
screen. When I placed my old video card back in and tried to boot I
received the message "INVALID BOOT DISK. PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK
AND PRESS ANY KEY".

Now, I pulled an old drive, re-installed Windows, and I'm trying to
get this back to normal. However, I have A LOT of data on those
striped drives. Is there any easy was to recover the data on those
drives???

Thanks in Advance!!

 

[DL]

no need to multi post

 

[Ron Martell]

Help me please!!

I am running Windows XP and I had 2 serial ATA drives on my ASUS
Motherboard and was using the RAID Stripe option.

Anyhow, I installed a new video card, and first boot gave me a blue
screen. When I placed my old video card back in and tried to boot I
received the message "INVALID BOOT DISK. PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK
AND PRESS ANY KEY".

Now, I pulled an old drive, re-installed Windows, and I'm trying to
get this back to normal. However, I have A LOT of data on those
striped drives. Is there any easy was to recover the data on those
drives???

Thanks in Advance!!

There is a lesson in this, and that is that you should never repeat
never repeat never use a Raid 0 (striped) disk array for the operating
system. Period.

The miniscule performance advantages that you might achieve are very
quickly offset by the increased risk and vulnerability to corruption
that you are exposed to.

You could try reinstalling your RAID drives, then booting your
computer from the Windows XP installation CD. Hopefully you have a
hardware RAID so it will be in operation when you boot from the CD.

From the CD boot menu choose the Repair (Recovery Console) option and
when it finished booting and stops at the command prompt enter the
following commands:

FIXBOOT C:
FIXMBR C:
BOOTCFG C: /REBUILD

That should fix your drive problems, provided the RAID is being
properly recognized as such when you boot from the CD, and your hard
drives should now be bootable.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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