Power shut off during reformate! NEED HELP!

[bmclean0120]

My masive problem

I was reformatting my windows from xp to vista when when my cat hit my power switch . So i quickly restarted my computer and during the boot it showed my raid 0 is offline. So i booted to my vista cd and tryed to reinstall but now my computer cannot find my hard drives even with the drivers?

what do i do i was thinking of deleting the raid array and then putting it back on and then installing windows on the new raid 0 array if you think this would work can you tell me how to do it!

If you can help me and you have paypal i will send some cash! im not kidding i need my computer.

 

[montyuk]

if you have no data on those raid drives that you want to keep then go ahead as per your original plan.

start as if you didnt have a raid array already and just do what you did when you first got the machine.

 

[bmclean0120]

yeah i have no data that i care about, but when i go to install the windows in a the drive it ask my for my driver so i put the same one that i used b4 that worked and now it doenst. The bios shows its there but it shows as the raid 0 offline?

 

[montyuk]

just looking at this - http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/14070/

this was one solution given -

Do a control-f on startup to get into the RAID utility
Select DELETE RAID (4) - don't worry, deleting the RAID does not delete the data - this sets both drives to Free
Now, select Auto COnfigure RAID (1)
AFter the RAID is rebuilt, you should be able to reboot.
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and whilst is sounds like one of your drives may be failing - another poster reckons its a slight problem with xp pro - http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/14070/#96226

 

[bmclean0120]

Thanks for the help!

Last night i got frustrated so i just said screw it and shut off my computer, i went to hockey game back said to hell with it one more shot as the computer loaded it showed the Raid 0 back online! so i booted from hard drive and it gave me an error some root system32 was corrupt so i booted to vista cd loaded the sata drivers and everthing worked? i don't no why they went offline or how i fixed it i guess a little luck. I am now on my computer with vista ultimate.

Thanks for your help and if it was not working and i tried your help and it did work i would have sent you some cash

Thanks bmclean0120