Hi all. Had a problem after a RAID1 mirror rebuild whereby my PC wouldn't boot to anything.
(http://forums.anandtech.com/me...d=32&threadid=2275668).
Messed about in the BIOS until it started booting from the optical (still get 'NTLDR is missing' error when trying to boot to drives), and have been trying to recover in various ways:
- Tried to repair install windows but no option to select current windows install & press R.
- Went to recovery console and tried:
- copy K:\i386\ntldr c:\ and copy K:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\ (where K is optical)
- bootcfg /add : didn't find any windows installs, so ran chkdsk on both SATAs, both had bad sectors, ran chkdsk /r on both, they completed but bootcfg /add still says:
"failed to successfully scan disks for windows installs. may be caused by corrupt file system"
- Used BartPE to copy the few files which I'd modified since the last backup.
I've got 2 IDE drives, one of which I'm quite happy to format and use as a windows boot if needs be. My questions are:
1. since both drives seem to be corrupt, how can i check? Chkdsk from recovery console doesn't appear to be anything, and running chkdsk to fix errors from BartPe gives me "can't run chkdsk on RAW drives".
2. Is it likely that both have actual physical errors (both are 14 months old, samsung spinpoint 500gb)?
3. Could it be that they've both got the same (mirrored) bit of corruption and are both physically fine, but now the mirror is broken? If so, what's the best solution?
4. I'm planning on doing a fresh windows reinstall anyway - should I try to slipstream an XP SP3 booter with the correct RAID drivers and start again? Or can I install to one of the SATAs then create a mirror which would just copy the one drive over?
Thanks in advance. Getting bored of no PC!
p.s. if one drive has physical faults, it's X25-M time.
(http://forums.anandtech.com/me...d=32&threadid=2275668).
Messed about in the BIOS until it started booting from the optical (still get 'NTLDR is missing' error when trying to boot to drives), and have been trying to recover in various ways:
- Tried to repair install windows but no option to select current windows install & press R.
- Went to recovery console and tried:
- copy K:\i386\ntldr c:\ and copy K:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\ (where K is optical)
- bootcfg /add : didn't find any windows installs, so ran chkdsk on both SATAs, both had bad sectors, ran chkdsk /r on both, they completed but bootcfg /add still says:
"failed to successfully scan disks for windows installs. may be caused by corrupt file system"
- Used BartPE to copy the few files which I'd modified since the last backup.
I've got 2 IDE drives, one of which I'm quite happy to format and use as a windows boot if needs be. My questions are:
1. since both drives seem to be corrupt, how can i check? Chkdsk from recovery console doesn't appear to be anything, and running chkdsk to fix errors from BartPe gives me "can't run chkdsk on RAW drives".
2. Is it likely that both have actual physical errors (both are 14 months old, samsung spinpoint 500gb)?
3. Could it be that they've both got the same (mirrored) bit of corruption and are both physically fine, but now the mirror is broken? If so, what's the best solution?
4. I'm planning on doing a fresh windows reinstall anyway - should I try to slipstream an XP SP3 booter with the correct RAID drivers and start again? Or can I install to one of the SATAs then create a mirror which would just copy the one drive over?
Thanks in advance. Getting bored of no PC!
p.s. if one drive has physical faults, it's X25-M time.
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