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can't boot from hdd's

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inferno493

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I recently installed a new sata raid array and installed windows xp with an upgrade disk I launched from my old IDE raid that already had Windows installed. After getting windows up on the new raid I reset the old raid because I wanted a mirror for backup reasons. I changed the boot drive to the new raid in the bios, fired it up and poof....tries to boot from the cd and then nothing. So I'm not really sure what happened but if I try to boot from a thumbdrive I can't find any of the drives. Also the BIOS cant find the IDE drives but sees the SATA's just fine. The raid utility in the BIOS sees all the drives and says they are ok. I then used mbrwizd to set the SATA raid to active and now it says ntldr is missing. So any ides as to what I can do? I don't have an xp boot disk, just the upgrade so I need to figure out some other way to Find my drives.
 
So basically you "upgraded" to windows xp and made it install to your new sata raid array while in Windows?
 
Ok, don't do that. You need to boot from the cd and it will simply ask you for an old copy of windows so that you can use it as an "upgrade".
 
well, here's the thing...I thought I had everything running smooth so I reset the IDE RAID to mirror which did something (corrupted the MBR in some way?) so that I can't see my old drives at all and when I use the upgrade disk it doesn't boot from it even if I set the boot priority only to use the cd rom in the BIOS. I think I actually have a full copy of xp somewhere but a lot of stuff is in storage so I may have to go hunting for it. I was just hoping there was an easy way to get booted from the SATA RAID but things are looking grim at this point. BTW do you know what it is I did exactly? Because I would like to avoid doing this again in the future. I am guessing that all the boot information was on the IDE RAID although at the time I figured each drive had it's own independent MBR it could use regardless of the state of the other.
 
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