Endless Rebooting in Vista

[Danadcorps]

Hey, I just came home today and found my computer in the midst of a reboot. I went to the bathroom, came back and it was rebooting again. I tried starting in all of the options (normal, last known good config, safe mod + networking, etc.), but it never gets to the Windows splash screen. I then tried booting from the DVD to repair it, but this also reboots after it finished the first loading files screen.

I am running a Q6600 on a Gigabyte EP35-DS3R. I have 4-1gb RAM sticks, a 3850 vid card, dvd-rw drive, and 4 SATA drives. Two of the SATA drives are in raid 0 and they are what I boot up from.

I tried booting up from my brother's single SATA drive, but that also resulted in an endless reboot. BTW, I wanted to make sure that if I'm running my OS off of a raid 0 that I can boot off of my brother's single SATA drive.

Also, I want to test my Raid 0 array on my bro's comp to see if it is a HDD failure. Is that possible (sry, Im sick and my brain isn't working)? How do I get them working on my bro's comp? If you need me to test anything else, let me know and I'll do that tomorrow when I feel better (I'll be able to think clearly then).

 

[mpilchfamily]

Most likly your raid has crashed.

Trying to boot from your bothers drive won't work. If it does then the system has changed files on his drive to make it work for you and it would then cause problems with his system. Unless he has the same motherboard as you do. Same goes for hte raid. The array was built on your motherboards raid chip and would take a allot to reconstruct the array to work on your bother's system. Which would likly not work out and you would end up loosing all your data. That is if the raid hasn't already crashed. So your system will do the restart thing even on your brother's drive.

This is a risk you take running a raid 0. They are known for crashing. Its not a matter of IF they will crash its just When. Hope you had a backup of all your files. If not now you have learned your lesson, right?

 

[Danadcorps]

I hate you. j/k. I was hoping that wasn't the problem. Would I be able to just delete the RAID 0 array, create it again, install the OS on another of my drives (no raid this time), recover the data on the raid array using a program, put the data on my other drives, undo the raid array, and put the data back onto the two drives (not in raid)?

 

[mpilchfamily]

You may or may not be able to rebuild the array but there is no telling if the data has been currupted or not. Chances are it has and the information is lost. If it was just a single drive with the files currupted it could be easly recovered. But since every file is basicly split between the drives its near imposible to put it all back together. Since the part of the array that likly got currupted was the dirrectory which kept track of where everything was.