Booting RAID Crash! Please help.

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beldecca

Discussion Starter · Mar 11, 2009

Ok, went into my main machine this morning and I have a black screen saying that Vista can't boot. It needs repaired. Thinking Vista just got stupid (like it never does that) I rebooted and let it cool - same thing.

The machine was working a day before - no recent changes to hard/software.

Put in Vista disk to start a repair.
Repair console will not see my WD Black Drives in a RAID stripe (boot).
It's asking for device drivers for the drives.
Poked around a bit and no luck on the 'recovery' part.
(had to go to work)

At work grabbed a download from Biostar for the MB's RAID drivers - is this what it needed?
Also grabbing a copy of Knoppix Live CD - to check data - will this work with the RAID array.

The RAID utility (in boot) does see the array & it looks healthy.
What else can I do? Any help or ideas as to what happened appreciated.
I think I might drop the RAID once I get this sorted out.

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DuckieHo

· #2 · Mar 11, 2009

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Originally Posted by beldecca

It's asking for device drivers for the drives.

Did you load the RAID driver in the Repair Console?

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beldecca

Discussion Starter · #3 · Mar 11, 2009

That's the next thing. Vista can read it from a USB drive, right?

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beldecca

Discussion Starter · #4 · Mar 11, 2009

The RAID driver at Biostar is only an exe - doesn't it need to be a .dll or something?

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DuckieHo

· #5 · Mar 11, 2009

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Originally Posted by beldecca

That's the next thing. Vista can read it from a USB drive, right?

USB, Floppy, Optical.

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Originally Posted by beldecca

The RAID driver at Biostar is only an exe - doesn't it need to be a .dll or something?

Use WinZip/WinRar and unpackage the .exe. The drivers are in there.

You can go to Intel and get the drivers from them instead.

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beldecca

Discussion Starter · #6 · Mar 11, 2009

OK. I unplugged everything. Then plugged just the RAID back in (not my other two 'stuff' drives).
Switched BIOS over to ATHC - wouldn't boot.
Switched BIOS back to RAID - booted right up.
Under boot screen "installing 3 updates" - Windows update fragged me?
System currently running - but I'm doing a back up and then I'll decide if I want to keep the RAID.
Anyone have any idea what happened?

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