Hey all,
So the situation is fairly straightforward (I think). I removed two existing hard drives with data only on them (no windows files) and replaced them with three new drives which I configured as a RAID through the motherboard\BIOS. I did not touch my SSD which has the windows installation on it (windows 7). After doing my installation and setting up the RAID the computer no longer acknowledges as a valid boot drive.
I verified that the drive shows up on the BIOS, I verified that it is not the RAID (by removing the RAID from the system, still doesn't recognize it). I booted up from an Ubuntuu flash drive to verify I can still access the drive. All of the files appear to be there from the windows installation, including the bootmgr.exe files. I tried a windows repair from the install disk and did not locate a valid windows boot drive even after running the repair tool. For now, I'm just going to reinstall windows cleanly on a different disk (because I'm tired of the hassle of dealing with it and I have everything backed up already) but I'm very curious what might have caused the issue given that all of the data on the drive is still intact, and accessible through a linux boot.
So the situation is fairly straightforward (I think). I removed two existing hard drives with data only on them (no windows files) and replaced them with three new drives which I configured as a RAID through the motherboard\BIOS. I did not touch my SSD which has the windows installation on it (windows 7). After doing my installation and setting up the RAID the computer no longer acknowledges as a valid boot drive.
I verified that the drive shows up on the BIOS, I verified that it is not the RAID (by removing the RAID from the system, still doesn't recognize it). I booted up from an Ubuntuu flash drive to verify I can still access the drive. All of the files appear to be there from the windows installation, including the bootmgr.exe files. I tried a windows repair from the install disk and did not locate a valid windows boot drive even after running the repair tool. For now, I'm just going to reinstall windows cleanly on a different disk (because I'm tired of the hassle of dealing with it and I have everything backed up already) but I'm very curious what might have caused the issue given that all of the data on the drive is still intact, and accessible through a linux boot.