MBR on SATA RAID0 .. HELP!

[Blueball]

I hope someone can help me ....

I was cranking the multis and FSB the other day and now windows can't find the /system dir. I've had this before with SATA devices being run out-of-spec.
My problem is that .. while my XPSP2 CD will boot ... it needs my SATA driver disk. I put my last FDD in someone elses machine ... so now I can't 'R'ecover OR install.

I recall ...

Fix MBR ... and bootcfg?

I'm oldschool DOS, so go ahead, try to confuse me :smash:

[RyderOCZ]

Can you at least get it to the F8 menu for boot options?

[RyderOCZ]

you should be able to start recovery from there I think :scratch:

[joeMan]

Can you download the nF2 SATA drivers from web to whatever PC you're typing this from and then make a floppy of it that way?

i.e. for me, I can download from VIA Arena and copy the files to a floppy, then hit F6 and put that floppy in...

[Blueball]

Can you download the nF2 SATA drivers from web to whatever PC you're typing this from and then make a floppy of it that way?

...

No floppy drive to work with at all! I get stuck at the F6 ... so I'm lookin for an alternate fix. Even the laptop I'm using right now doesn't have a floppy drive.

I thought about making a boot CD with floppy emulation but since MS is looking for the FDD .... ?!?!

I have a 6.0GB USB 2.5" handy drive ... but USB needs OS.

I can access the data and the drives .. I just don't wanna loose all my porn :yikes: by trying some dos commands without askin my peers :beer:

[RyderOCZ]

Does the PC look at the drive at all and start to load windows?

[joeMan]

Fry's and drop $5 on a FDD?

[Blueball]

Can you at least get it to the F8 menu for boot options?


F8 is ok ... but no recovery ... and nothing worked.

file missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM


I think I'd better go get a FDD ... My OS is on the second partition ... with my old OS on the first.

Unless someone is a GURU with boot repairs, I'm beat :beat:

[Blueball]

Does the PC look at the drive at all and start to load windows?

yes .. .thank god ... KERNEL1.EXE to \windows\system32\config\system.log in the bootlog

in this case, it is a pair of 120GB HDDs in Raid0 ... so it is even trickier I suppose.

[Blueball]

Fry's and drop $5 on a FDD?

wow ... you sure know Raid0 !! (your sig)

do you ever get this ... file missing or corrupt during high OC?

Since I have been using water to cool my HDD this hasn't happened. The ONE time I divert the water to my new homemade GPU block and shoot for some personal bests ... I loose my PC for a while :smash:

[joeMan]

Na, I'm no RAID guru, that's for sure. I've just installed several of them for myself and for friends. I really don't have any more suggestions but there are people around here with way more know-how than me for sure...I hope one of them responds soon.

I think BB and Hawk are pretty good at jumpin in and tackling stuff like this...

[pointreyes]

Post #15 at: http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1005051&postcount=15

However before you do attempt the software suggested on that post you really should try the FIXMBR from the Windows XP CD.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/default.asp?url=/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/bootcons_fixmbr.asp

[Blueball]

whats the difference between fixmbr and fixboot?

seems redundant

[pointreyes]

fixboot = "Writes a new partition boot sector to the system partition."
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixboot.mspx

fixmbr = "Repairs the master boot record of the boot disk."

That is not redundant. Depending is what is causing the problem, hopefully one or the other will fix it.

[Blueball]

$50cdn for a floppy drive at FutureShop ...Bah! Sundays :<

I went to my neighbours house and canabalized his PC for 1/2 and hour.

It would have been nice to be able to slipstream additional drivers into the CD. Even better for those who do unattended installs.

[Blueball]

CHKDSK /P fixed my setup in 2 min.

Thx for all the advice and help. I posted the same question on a large forum I belong to ... there was only ONE reply ... even after a bump.

Extra thanks to Pointreyes for giving me good readin.

[joeMan]

that's great news.