Dracone

please help I had 2-200G hdds (sata's) set up as one(strung/streamlined) as my c drive. My os windows 2000nt server. My problem is this I moved 4 ide storage devices into my system (on a pci raid card) and put the wrong driver disk into my floppy (highpoint 371 N RAID drivers Rev.1.0). Subsequently upon restart I now recieve in bios

Raid Volumes
none defined

NonRaid Disks
none defined

the bios then lists my ide mass storage and then gives me an error/missing feild:

NTLDR is missing

heres my problem how do I restring and or recover all the data on the sata's when I cant even boot windows because the os is also on these sata drives.

linderman

I am going to give this one an educated guess / remove the IDE drives until the smoke clears

dump your CMOS

then restore your bios and your settings

after you get things put back the way they were / then go forward with the "correct" raid drivers.


regards


joe

Dracone

Thank-you very much

Dracone

Dracone

Hi linderman When I cleared the CMOS and rebooted windows restarted I thought I was in the clear. I had a windows lock-up and restarted.Then when I set the bios defaults my drives were located however i now get a disk read error. Please advise if you have time.

Drake

linderman

Ok
if you had an IDE drive installed at the time the OS was installed on the Sata drive then I suspect windows placed some files on it needs to boot up on them /

What ever you configuration was at the time you installed the OS / reconfig your machine that way / clear the CMOS / then boot into windows

all should go well from there / thats one of the biggest reasons I always install an OS without other drives present / it seems the OS configs things with the future expectation that hard drives and partition info etc wont change ????

give that a try then let us know


joe / if you can get into safemode with your machine configured the way it was prior to problems then try "last known good config " if that doesnt go it you may have to use the "system file repair"

it appears you problem is a windows file situtation rather than a bios one / as long as you can get past the bios step.

regards

joe

PS / after reading your original post above / I would say definetely invoke the last known good config / and if that dont cut it / clear cmos and use "repair console"

The other thing is / Why wouldnt you have purchased a IDE controller card (pci slot) to run the four ide hard drives / but that "wrong" driver is going to have to be erradicated with the system repair console for sure.


Joe

linderman

I hope you have a power supply so bigggg it dims the lights in the house to run all that stuff / or those drives are going to be falling on their face all the time from fluctuating voltage / You will need at least a 500W good Name brand PSU

linderman

Ahhhhh I think you better check this out?????

answers some of the problem


http://www.flexbeta.net/forums/lofiv...php/t1061.html



regards



joe

Dracone

Hello Folks
As to my problem I did format using only 2 sata drives my problem occured when I added a ide controller (pci) card with 4 ide drives I inadvertently inserted the wrong driver disk instead. I thus messed up my sata drivers.
lindermans suggestion clear CMOS remove pci controller worked I was able to boot windows 2000 however it locked up so when I restarted I developed new problems. I can no longer access windows I get stuck in boot up.

CMOS/GPNV checksum Bad (what is GPNV)
CMOS/ date/time not set(this one I can fix)

when I get past this I receive disk error requesting boot software. So I put in my server software thinking I can use the repare utility and discover (windows) cant find my hard drives. So my new question is this if I format a new sata drive by itself and then add the first sata's can I access the information or data as if they were individual drives or am i hooped.

linderman

You may luck out if you can get an updated bios version for your mobo / the new bios will want a crack at configuring things for the "first" time so to speak.
its worth a shot / if the sata wont boot now / because of a driver conflict/ my guess would be (and its a guess) the controller isnt gonna wanna play with a new drive either . I would try the new bios first / thats free


Clear the CMOS again / after clearing try a boot up without the sata drives plugged in to the mobo connections / after it cant find a "boot" drive then / restart with them plugged in



regards



joe

Dracone

Thank-you I'll give it a shot