Lost my RAID0 Volume, it seems....

[Jeppe Dige Jespersen]

.....i get a "ntfs.sys is missing or corrupted" error at boot, one morning.

The RAID'ed setup had run fine since I got it, about a month ago.

I have an Asus P5GDC Deluxe Mobo with two Maxtor disks in a RAID0
configuration. Windows XP Pro is (doh!) installed on this raid volume.

I have tried to do a repair with my WinXP cd, but have had no luck detecting
the raid'ed disks, even when providing a driver on a floppy at
"repair-time". And I do believe I am using the rigth drivers.

It's as if I just lost contact with that RAID volume completely.

Any ideas, inputs, condolences?

J.Jespersen

 

[Malke]

....i get a "ntfs.sys is missing or corrupted" error at boot, one
morning.

The RAID'ed setup had run fine since I got it, about a month ago.

I have an Asus P5GDC Deluxe Mobo with two Maxtor disks in a RAID0
configuration. Windows XP Pro is (doh!) installed on this raid volume.

I have tried to do a repair with my WinXP cd, but have had no luck
detecting the raid'ed disks, even when providing a driver on a floppy
at "repair-time". And I do believe I am using the rigth drivers.

It's as if I just lost contact with that RAID volume completely.

Any ideas, inputs, condolences?

J.Jespersen

You have my condolences. That is the problem with running RAID 0. You
don't really get a speed increase (per Dr. Tom of Tom's Hardware) and
you double your chances of losing your data.

Did you try to do the repair with the Recovery Console?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822800/EN-US/

Malke

 

[Guest]

At boot time, check for a BIOS prompt to get to a configuration screen for
the RAID card. Check for problems there, run Diagnostics if availble. Try
breaking the RAID mirrors and booting of one or the other disk. If you find
one that works, then recreate the mirror from the good drive.

Good Luck,

Rich

 

[Jeppe Dige Jespersen]

Try

breaking the RAID mirrors and booting of one or the other disk. If you find
one that works, then recreate the mirror from the good drive.

RAID is striped, not mirrored. All seems fine in the RAID BIOS thingie....

But thanks..