I need to repair a heavily corrupted XP Professional installation on a Dell Dimension 5150; I don't know the circumstances but System and System32 got nuked. I am trying to use the XP install disk to run a repair but no matter what I try it always says it can't see any HDDs.
The system is running a RAID 1 array with two Western Digital 80 GB HDDs. I've loaded the drivers via floppy disk (Intel ICH7R) but that doesn't solve the problem. The installation process will get to the point where you choose to install XP or launch the recovery console. No matter what choice I select it tells me it can't see any HDDs.
There's also no option in the BIOS to disable AHCI either. I've run diagnostics on the HDDs just to be certain and they come up fine with no errors. I can even see them in Parted Magic. I don't think there's a problem with the HDDs or the RAID controller since Parted Magic can see them just fine (including reading and writing to them).
Anybody have any suggestions? I'm a bit lost on this one.
If any other information would be helpful, please let me know. Thanks!
The system is running a RAID 1 array with two Western Digital 80 GB HDDs. I've loaded the drivers via floppy disk (Intel ICH7R) but that doesn't solve the problem. The installation process will get to the point where you choose to install XP or launch the recovery console. No matter what choice I select it tells me it can't see any HDDs.
There's also no option in the BIOS to disable AHCI either. I've run diagnostics on the HDDs just to be certain and they come up fine with no errors. I can even see them in Parted Magic. I don't think there's a problem with the HDDs or the RAID controller since Parted Magic can see them just fine (including reading and writing to them).
Anybody have any suggestions? I'm a bit lost on this one.
If any other information would be helpful, please let me know. Thanks!