MalakithSkadi

ok this morning I had a mega crash relating to nv4 display drivers on an infinate loop, which I couldnt get round because it wouldnt display for me to see to load into safe mode.

Anyway my PC needed a reformat.

So I put the Norton Ghost disc in that I did when I first had the system how I wanted it, went to run it... cant detect a drive to install the image to.

Now I remember having this issue last time I reformatted due to the 2 Sata drives being in RAID0 Array. At that time I had to put the drivers onto floppy discs and when asked in the Windows install sequence put them in. So I have done that again, formatted and installed windows to the hard drive quite happily.

The PC then reboots ready to load up windows, and im back to square one. No hard drive to boot from. Iv ran the windows install again to confirm it did install, which is has (indicated by the free space compared to partition size).

Which leads me to believe its the raid/sata drivers.

On boot up I get up the ASUS splash screen with
Hit Tab to display BIOS POST message or Del to enter setup.
This has never come up at any time in the past.
If I hit tab I get the normal black loadup screen with Hit del for Setup or F8 for boot menu. The boot menu contains the floppy drive and CD drive, nothing else.

Entering the BIOS I have the primary IDE as the CD drive, all the others are not detected.

Heres the PC Spec, hope someone can help!

Intel Core 2 DUO E6700 2.67GHz Dual Core CPU
EVGA nForce 680 (Socket LGA775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Corsair 2GB DDR2 PC2-8500 Dominator TwinX (2x1GB) Dual Channel Kit
2 x 150GB Western Digital RaptorX 16MB Cache SATA Hard Drive (RAID 0 Configured)
NVIDIA 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 VIVO HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
NEC 7173 18x DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black)
Floppy Drive
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS Sound Card
Enermax Galaxy 850W Next Generation Power Supply
Windows XP Professional