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Computer will not boot from hard disks or cd's

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Munin2889

Junior Member
I started my trouble shooting over in the video cards section, so here is what I needed help with there if the problems are connected.

Original problem


At the bottom of that you can see what's basically happened.

I have vista on one hard drive and XP 64 bit on the other. It won't even give me the chance to load into either of those. It will not boot from a cd either. Right now I think the best thing to do is just to start over and reformat the hard drives, but that doesn't work either. Partition Magic, when I try to reformat, says that it is a bad file or command line and that it can not reformat. Also, I've tried booting into the linux live cd to use that partitioning tool, but on the first line of syntax it goes down for lines, the last of which says:

*Runnung local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) [ OK ]

Then it says that the graphics need to be set in safe mode so I hit continue. It then goes right back to the same 4 lines and continues to sit there and do nothing.

I think I know what I did to cause the hard drives to stop working correctly. I went into the bios after installing vista and was just looking around to see if there was anything else I missed. I spotted the raid control and was curious on how to set up the array so I went into that. Once you go in there however there is no save without changes. So I forced my drives into a raid array while there were still things on them. I went back in and turned the array off. I know this is probably the main problem.

I've also tried to use the Asus flash tool and update the bios through the bios. That worked but all the settings stayed the same. Is there a way just to wipe the bios clean and start fresh. And what should I do about the hard drives, is there anything that can be done in regards to them.

In advance thank you for your time.

Dennis
 
Enter your RAID config screen and make your drives/s non-RAID again. Hotkey should be displayed during/after your BIOS loading screen.
 
I'm currently wiping the drives, thanks for the suggestion. If this works, and for future reference. I have to enable RAID before I install an operating system, correct?
 
No I don't believe so. I'm just trying to use it has a home computer in RAID so that it accesses and loads data faster.
 
raid only is faster if the data is not constantly changing, why data servers use it since a majority of the data they store is not changing like on a home pc.
 
it'll cut down on actual space since you lose the use of the 2nd HDD, you'll have only the size of the primary drive and that's it.
I'd rather have a 2nd drive and be able to back up my documents, than to have raid on a home pc, now on a server or media center pc, that's different.
 
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