here goes my predicament:
after some USB troubles, i decided to repair my previous windows installation using the WinXP CD. everything was going fine, it was installing windows and all, except that it seemed to be taking a long time. i look closely and it was moving extremely slowly, sometimes freezing for a long time, and stuck at 6 minutes left. SO, assuming the setup would start over again since it didn't finish in the first place, i reboot.
(possibly was my mistake but that's in the past now)
so then while it reboots, i make sure not to press a key so it wouldn't boot of the CD, but to my suprise it boots automatically off the CD. so i press F6 and load the RAID drivers, but then it doesn't detect a previous windows installation any longer. and my old Windows and Programs partitions are no longer present, just unpartitioned space. so i freak out. but what freaks me out more is that it sees two 120GB drives instead of one 240GB drive.....HOLY #@$%~
but the info for one of the 120GB drive still states a 200GB partition is present. so i go into the RAID configuration screen, and it states that the two drives are no longer in RAID 0. i try creating a new RAID array (after giving up all hope of trying to repair it) but it prompts me that there is still a valid partition table on one of the drives.
so now i ask, is there any program out there than can rebuild my drive? im not too optomistic about it but i thought i'd ask, since that partition table kinda gave a little shine of hope. maybe i should invest LOTS of money into a RAID-5 box .... or maybe i should stop dreaming.
after some USB troubles, i decided to repair my previous windows installation using the WinXP CD. everything was going fine, it was installing windows and all, except that it seemed to be taking a long time. i look closely and it was moving extremely slowly, sometimes freezing for a long time, and stuck at 6 minutes left. SO, assuming the setup would start over again since it didn't finish in the first place, i reboot.
(possibly was my mistake but that's in the past now)
so then while it reboots, i make sure not to press a key so it wouldn't boot of the CD, but to my suprise it boots automatically off the CD. so i press F6 and load the RAID drivers, but then it doesn't detect a previous windows installation any longer. and my old Windows and Programs partitions are no longer present, just unpartitioned space. so i freak out. but what freaks me out more is that it sees two 120GB drives instead of one 240GB drive.....HOLY #@$%~
but the info for one of the 120GB drive still states a 200GB partition is present. so i go into the RAID configuration screen, and it states that the two drives are no longer in RAID 0. i try creating a new RAID array (after giving up all hope of trying to repair it) but it prompts me that there is still a valid partition table on one of the drives.
so now i ask, is there any program out there than can rebuild my drive? im not too optomistic about it but i thought i'd ask, since that partition table kinda gave a little shine of hope. maybe i should invest LOTS of money into a RAID-5 box .... or maybe i should stop dreaming.
