corrupt files

[Guest]

I recently had my system reboot while trying to load a web page. during the
reboot the hard drives had an error message. and another reboot. bios says
that my hard drive array is healthy. widows wont load in safe mode it hangs
up. normal mode tries but reaches a point where it starts over. If I boot
windows from the CD. and try to goto the repair consol, it tells me that
there are no hard drives. If I try to reinstall repair the same thing. Is
there a way to fix this with out reformating the HDD????

 

[DL]

Are the hd's visible in the Bios?

If a repair install of win doesnt see the hd's its either because they have
gone bad or they are sata drives that require F6 to load sata/raid drivers
from floppy

 

[Guest]

try booting up with
your windows cd and
log into the recovery console.

when you get to the recovery
console command prompt run the
following commands:

chkdsk
fixboot

then "exit" and try to
reboot with out the cd.

the section on
"how to use the recovery console command prompt"
will explain the above:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654



if the above fails, you can
use you windows cd and
do a "windows repair".

this is better than a
"re-installation" of the o.s.

here are the instructions:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/doug92.mspx

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[Guest]

Yes the hd's are visiable in Bios. And it says that they are a healthy
Array. When I load the winXP CD. It is saying that there are no HD's
Installed, but If I let Windows try to start normally. I get the windows
loading Screen with the little blue loading bars. Then it goes back to the
black screen with safe mode on it. Safe mode wont load either. It hangs up.

 

[Guest]

Can not get to the recovery consol from windows CD. Windows is saying that
there are no hard drives installed, when I boot from the CD. Windows tries
to boot from the HD on a normal start up but just keeps looping to the Safe
mode start up screen. Safe mode hangs up and freezes.

 

[Guest]

if recovery console is not
available to you, then you
might try using the windows
cd and simply do a "repair installation"
with it.

however, there might be trick
you can try before
the above.

unknown to most
people after the bios does its
self check the boot.ini menu
pops up for about a 10th of
a second.

restart your computer and
almost immediately begin clicking
the up arrow key continuously
and fast-!.

clicking the up arrow key will interrupt
the boot.ini sequence which
is taking you for a loop.



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[Patrick Keenan]

I recently had my system reboot while trying to load a web page. during
the
reboot the hard drives had an error message. and another reboot. bios
says
that my hard drive array is healthy. widows wont load in safe mode it
hangs
up. normal mode tries but reaches a point where it starts over. If I
boot
windows from the CD. and try to goto the repair consol, it tells me that
there are no hard drives. If I try to reinstall repair the same thing.
Is
there a way to fix this with out reformating the HDD????

What exactly do you mean by "array"? Do you have multiple drives
configured as RAID? This is very important information.

HTH
-pk

 

[Guest]

I have tried to do the repair Install, but Windows is not seeing the HD's.

ok after the up arrow trick then What? It took me to a screen with 5
options.
1) Raid driver page
2) silicon image 3132 driver page
3) normal format floppy disk
4) quick format floppy disk
5) freeDOS command prompt

 

[Guest]

well,

at least i got you out
of the loop and have
more options now.

unfortunately, i am not
famaliar with RAID or
your freeDOS.

i suppose it wouldn't
hurt to select option 1




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[John John]

You need to put the SATA/RAID controller drivers on a floppy diskette
and you have to load them by pressing the F6 key when the XP cd setup
program starts to load, you will see a prompt at the bottom of the
screen telling you to press the F6 key.

John

 

[Guest]

i forgot to mention
that the goal would
be to re gain access to
the system so you can
then get to the boot.ini
file on the root directory
modify it with an editor.

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[Guest]

yes I mean 2- 250G HD's Striped Together. Bios is calling it an array. raid
config SATA

 

[Guest]

I loaded the Raid drivers onto a floppy and windows seems to want to run its
own drivers.

 

[Guest]

I loaded them onto a Floppy windows wants to use its own drivers.?

 

[John John]

Did you press the F6 key?

John

I loaded them onto a Floppy windows wants to use its own drivers.?

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[Guest]

Yes I did. I am not sure that they loaded though. because it still did not
see the HD's

 

[DL]

Then you are missing the F6 option which occurs early in the installation
process.

If there is no reponse to your keying F6, ie it skips the option, then
likely you have a motherboard problem

 

[John John]

You are using the wrong drivers, or the floppy is not properly created
or you press F6 too late.

John

 

[Guest]

try researching microsoft.com
with a criterian of "troubleshooting
raid arrays".

here are some results from
the www:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...-8EB7A22FC6A0&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us

and

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?srch=105&FORM=IE7RE&q=troubleshooting+raid+arrays



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[Patrick Keenan]

yes I mean 2- 250G HD's Striped Together. Bios is calling it an array.
raid
config SATA

Then did you also load the RAID drivers, via F6 when prompted at start of
setup?

-pk