XP - Boot up - MBR trashed?

Graham07 · 09-24-2008, 03:18 PM

Hi,

I have an ASUS A8N-SLi deluxe motherboard with two Maxtor 6L200M0 200gb hard drives running in raid 0 (SATA). I have turned the power off on shut down and cannot now boot up (unmountable boot volume).

When I try toboot from the Windows CD it won't allow me to press F6 to install the SATA driver and completely ignores the button pressing. It allows me to press F2 immediately after though.

It will reach 'press S for a third party driver' but it states the drive I have is corrupt, even though this is downloaded from the Maxtor website.

I have been tring to resolve for days now and am losing the will to live, so I thought i'd ask the experts for help. Any ideas please?

Thanks in anticipation,

Graham

Graham07 · 09-28-2008, 01:58 AM

I have just bought two new drives and will try and recover what I can when they are installed and running.

Thanks for looking

Tumbleweed36 · 09-28-2008, 05:14 AM

Didn't see this thead earlier. Have you tried to clear the cmos since you had to do a hard shut down?

09-24-2008, 03:18 PM	#1 (permalink)
Graham07 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 22 OS: Xp	XP - Boot up - MBR trashed? Hi, I have an ASUS A8N-SLi deluxe motherboard with two Maxtor 6L200M0 200gb hard drives running in raid 0 (SATA). I have turned the power off on shut down and cannot now boot up (unmountable boot volume). When I try toboot from the Windows CD it won't allow me to press F6 to install the SATA driver and completely ignores the button pressing. It allows me to press F2 immediately after though. It will reach 'press S for a third party driver' but it states the drive I have is corrupt, even though this is downloaded from the Maxtor website. I have been tring to resolve for days now and am losing the will to live, so I thought i'd ask the experts for help. Any ideas please? Thanks in anticipation, Graham

09-28-2008, 01:58 AM	#2 (permalink)
Graham07 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 22 OS: Xp	Re: XP - Boot up - MBR trashed? I have just bought two new drives and will try and recover what I can when they are installed and running. Thanks for looking

09-28-2008, 05:14 AM	#3 (permalink)
Tumbleweed36 Asst Manager Hardware Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA Posts: 19,656 OS: XP Professional	Re: XP - Boot up - MBR trashed? Didn't see this thead earlier. Have you tried to clear the cmos since you had to do a hard shut down? __________________ ---------- I don't receive email notifications of replies to subscribed threads. (Internet provider policy) Therefore, if I don't respond to your post within 24 hours, please send me a reminder PM and include the link to your thread.