yesterday i was trying to boot to the windows xp cd, and after successfully doing so, as all the device drivers are loading on the windows setup screen, it then gives me the BSOD with the following error Ox0000007B. after doing a bit of research, i believe it means the boot sector is corrupted or contains some type of virus. after restarting, i continue to get this message after choosing which OS to load. something must of happened during the setup process, or activated a virus i dunno, but i cannot boot into windows anymore. anybody know how i can install XP on my other hdd. rite now xp is installed on 2 raptors in raid 0. but i cant seem to do anything with it now. im kinda new at this, anybody know what next step i should take to install on the other hardrive , its a 300 GB PATA drive, was a storage drive, but i wanna put windows on it now. i tried unlplugging both the data cables of the raptors, then loading the windows xp setup, but the screen just freezes on, " windows is determining your hardware configuration" , what should i do next? thank u
Hi Olivia I believe the reason you are getting this error is that in running the Windows XP setup disc I assume you were running it to install Windows XP onto the PATA HDD while the Raptors were still connected to the PC and without making any changes in the BIOS Boot Menu or RAID Configuration Utility. You selected the Install option and selected the PATA disk drive as the disk drive to install to and its got so far into the setup i.e. gathering all the info needed to install windows, formatted the PATA HDD, and then started the initial file copy, but then it hasn't been able to complete the install for the following reason: 1. You didn't install the RAID drivers for the Raptor RAID 0 disk after the PC re-booted after the initial file copy, where you need to hit the F6 key to install third party drivers where you then insert the floppy disk with the RAID drivers on. So then Windows couldn't properly detect and install drivers for the Raptors as a RAID 0 disk which it was detecting it as in the hardware configuration page. Then when you've tried to install it again after removing the data cables form the Raptors if you havn't disabled the RAID controller in the BIOS, when Windows setup starts searching for the Hardware Configuration, even though the drives aren't connected the BIOS still says there is a RAID array enabled, so Windows keeps looking for it, and can't progress with the install until it finds the RAID array which it won't be able to do, as the drives aren't connected so it keeps looking and looking etc.... Then when you've tried to put everything back as it was i.e. reconnecting the Raptor data cables, and booting without the Windows CD in the PC...... Its possible that when you've reconnected the Raptor data cables that you have put the cables into different SATA ports for each of the Raptors, (an easy mistake to make trust me... I did the same thing which is how I know about all this...:O ) When Windows was first installed the Master Boot Record (MBR) makes note of where each drive in the RAID array was situated on the mobo so that Windows can send/retrieve data correctly form the drives, if the drives are now connected to different ports the MBR would find a conflict between the current setup and the original setup and would not be able to detect the drives correctly.. Ok so now we want to put things right, first of all lets try to get it back working the way it was: Disconnect the PATA drive from the IDE cable Re-connect the Raptor data cable to the SATA ports on the motherboard they were originally connected to. Start up the PC and enter the BIOS (press Del) Check to see that the Raptors have been detected - you should see the drive information on the first page (model no., capacity, etc.) Exit BIOS and see if it boots to Windows - hopefully the original MBR on the RAID 0 disk has been unaffected If it succesfully boots to Windows and all seems to be running ok then post again here and we'll address installing Windows to the PATA drive. If it doesn't boot to Windows try swapping the Raptor data cable connectors at the motherboard end of the cable only ,and try booting to Windows again. If it still doesn't boot to Windows succesfully post here and I'll post steps on how to re-install Windows again, but that will probably mean losing the data on the RAID 0 Raptors, which hopefully we can avoid by doing the above. Hopefully the above will get you back into Windows and then we can look at how to install it to the PATA drive. Hope to hear from you soon. Kaz
kaz is correct, however, personally i would disconnect the two raptors and disable RAID in the BIOS by enabling IDE mode and just connect only the PATA drive and install XP, then start worrying about the RAID setup, and possible RAID driver Edit: not that i'm disagreeing with you kaz, just another perspective
Hi Donkey thanks for the endorsement, Another perspective is welcome as I dont claim to be an expert, but just try to give the best advice I can, and someone else may well know a better, faster or easier way than I do...... I tend to err on the side of caution....!!!...especially when not really knowing the technical ability of the OP. I considered this approach as well, but thought it better to try and establish whether or not the original setup had been affected first.... I've found it to be a good rule of thumb...if when something go's wrong with a new configuration, to go back to scratch and start again with the last known working configuration Everyone has their own approach to things though and its good for the forum to be able to offer a choice to the OP.....:good: Thanks Kaz -x- Off Topic: Do you know if there is any server maintenance going on at the moment as the HF forum seems to have gone really slow of late.
no probs me neither, as i know there is so much much more to learn personally i use Linux & there's still a h3ll of a lot of crap for me to learn BTW: i haven't used XP for a couple of years now, but PC hardware is PC hardware well, that could be my Linux influence, i generally eliminate the hardware i don't fully understand (RAID in this scenario) very true [ot] seems fine to me, how do you connect to net ? and with who ?[/ot] Edit: BTW Wikipedia is you friend Edit: i needed to read your post a few times to help me understand what the problem was & what you were suggesting, BTW: you explained thing much better than i could have kaz, well done, hope we can correct or troubleshoot more problems soon, as you explain things so well, which i sometimes need, :beer:
