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CaptainSpork   12-26-2008 at 06:41:14 AM

Today I got two new hard drives which I made into a RAID 0 array and installed windows on, before doing so I unplugged all my old hard drives. Everything went fine and windows loaded correctly, I installed some drivers and used my computer for a bit. Then I reconnected two old drives that are also in RAID 0 to copy over some old files. After I was done I powered off and removed the old drives. Now when I boot, windows freezes after the splash screen. It gets past the screen with the green bar and hangs on the screen with a blue background and the XP logo. I can only get past here if I have the old hard drives plugged in. Odly when the old drives are connected my new drive is recognized as E: and the old as C:.

Is it possible that copying over my old documents could have caused some problem? How can I use my computer without the old hard drives? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

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montyuk   12-26-2008 at 05:48:17 PM
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the old drives may have over written the boot.ini with an older version.

with the old drives installed, right click my computer, select properties, select advanced, select settings under system startup and recovery, under the top option select edit,

im hoping you will see something like this -

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /noexecute=optin /3GB

now on yours id expect there to be two lines with different values under disk, with the old drives installed id reckon you would want the second line, as disk(0) will be your old drives

however before you do that - read this - http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/bootini.htm

and have a look through these -
http://www.google.co.uk/search?rlz [...] +multiboot


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