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Hi All,
I made some hasty changes to my windows registry while trying to uninstall some programs - i searched for all occurances of mysql and started deleting keys i thought were related to the installation. Then I ran CCleaner on the registry removing all suggested items. Then when i tried resarting my PC, windows wouldn't boot. The machine restarts abruptly just before the windows loading screen would usually come up. My configuration consists of:
Things I've tried and results:
Does anyone have any advice about fixing this or know what the problem may be? looks to me like i deleted something in the registry that allowed windows to work with my drives, and im too inexperienced with linux to extract the files.
Any help or advice would be greatly, greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I made some hasty changes to my windows registry while trying to uninstall some programs - i searched for all occurances of mysql and started deleting keys i thought were related to the installation. Then I ran CCleaner on the registry removing all suggested items. Then when i tried resarting my PC, windows wouldn't boot. The machine restarts abruptly just before the windows loading screen would usually come up. My configuration consists of:
- RAID 0 configured: 2x WD 160GB 7200RPM 8MB SATA 150 RAID HDD
- Hard Drives have 2 partitions; 40GB (System drive) and approx 165GB (I think, cant remember)
- Windows XP Pro SP2
Things I've tried and results:
- Can't boot in safe mode, safe mode using command prompt, or last good configuration - All result in the same restarting behaviour
- Entering Windows Recovery Console, it doesn't detect any windows installations and from that prompt, the hard drives aren't present (as found by using MAP command) - CD Drives, floppy and external USB drive are found though
- Via ubuntu and knoppix boot disks i can see the drives using fsck -l (In an attempt to copy the files to an external hard drive through linux) but can't mount them -
Code:
mount: unknown filesystem type 'nvidia_raid_member'
Code:Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5 Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5 Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5 Warning: invalid flag 0x587c of partition table 5 will be corrected by w(rite) Disk /dev/sda: 164.6GB, 164696555520 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 29923 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 5099 40957686 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 5100 40045 280703745 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 ? 264324 264300 2147296183 1b Hidden W95 FAT32 Disk /dev/sda: 164.6GB, 164696555520 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 29923 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/sdc: 400.0GB, 400088457216 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 1 48641 390708801 7 HPFS/NTFS
- Using dev-mapper and dmraid - ls /dev/mapper shows only an entry labelled control - my drives aren't appearing there as they should.
- Using sudo dmraid -an two entries come up:
Code:RAID set "nvidia_cdjjceeb" is not active RAID set "nvidia_cdjjceeb" is not active
Does anyone have any advice about fixing this or know what the problem may be? looks to me like i deleted something in the registry that allowed windows to work with my drives, and im too inexperienced with linux to extract the files.
Any help or advice would be greatly, greatly appreciated. Thanks!