SATA\Raid Queery & yes its him again..

I have 2 SATA 120 Gig Seagate Barracudas. that have been running fine on a AbitN7S2 Guru. I buggered the mobo so have now installed an identical one and have done the usual procedure to set up the Raid/Stripe system. Firstly I went to ''Resolve Conflict'' but it said there was none so booted and no drives were to be seen, went back and deleted and reset up Stripe on 16 bit, updated drivers. On boot I see them there but are not to be seen My Computer just my drive ''C'' They have an OS on there so tried to boot using them but no recognition. Any ideas please ???? and yes they are switched on in Bios

OS\XP Pro SP1
AMD 3000+
512 DDR 400
DVD/CDRom
DVD/RW

 

I forgot to say that although they show on POST screen they are not recognised in boot sequence in BIOS, also I ran ''Everest Home Edition' and they are clearly shown installed correctly. There is an issue of the EIDE HD that I am using now as no matter what jumper setting it only shows as slave in BIOS and that is after a repair and HD (Eide) set to master.I am to try another OS (XP Pro SP1) install on another EIDE HD to see if that resloves the issue.

 

On further investigation I can now concise problem down, the Raid set up is referenced everywhere but the boot record and is showing in Disk management as ''unallocated'' ??? have been all over the net and cannot find a similar posting,, come on guys help me out with this one as am to face a similar problem when new mrb and Cpu arrives.. lol

 

So all you did was replace the motherboard and you are trying to recognize the disks from the OS or from an install disk? Are you booting into an exisiting OS on the drives?

Have you tried a bootdisk. Do a full format on a floppy (writes boot code) add NTLDR, NTDetect.com and boot.ini from a system with the same service pack level.

Can you get in that way?

 

Thanks for response but I have over 70 Gig of music on them (SATA) and do not want to lose if at all poss.but its looking kinda of bleak, In the F4 Raid setup there is a facility there that wipes the old Mobo settings then takes a snapshot of new mobo and that should be it, its called ''Resolve Conflicts'' but have tried several times and says there are NO conflicts so assuming what i read in Help I should be able to access as new mobo setings are in place.. When I build the new rig I want to put these 2 Stripe Raid in there, so a dummy run on this identical mobo was to be easy so I thought, so back to the drawing board .. thanks again for response

 

OK I think I understand your configuration. You have an OS on another drive and can boot to it....your SATA drives show up unallocated in disk management.

Your MBR or you Primary boot sector is screwed up(does not have the proper space allocation for the drives).

Download sector inspector and post the results here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...2a-a586-4079-9489-c3ea14573fc4&DisplayLang=en

It will install it to C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools > go to a command propmt and run it. Pipe it to a text file and paste the contents here.

 

Hi the_mc have dl'ed the prog and installed but am a bit out of my depth here .. I installed to the appropriate place,C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools and when I activate the ''dos'' screen flashes for a multi second, do I have to use a dos command from 'command propmt''?? have read all help but not very explanatory on how to initiate.. also what is to ''pipe'' many thanks for your help as have been on this for about 10 days now non stop but have endless patience but patience runs a bit thin when no answers are forthcoming. lol

 

you are right. You need to open a dos prompt then navigate to the folder that sector inspector is at.

type :secinspect.exe >sectors.txt

This will create a sectors.txt in the same folder. Open it and paste the contents here....I will be able to tell you if the disk will be readable. It will look something lik this:


0001.033

Sector Inspector Copyright Microsoft Corporation 2003
===========================================================================
Target - \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0
1123 Cylinders
255 Heads
63 Sectors Per Track
512 BytesPerSector
12 MediaType

===========================================================================
Master Boot Record
===========================================================================
| B | FS TYPE | START | END | | |
| F | (hex) | C H S| C H S| RELATIVE | TOTAL |
===========================================================================
| * | 07 | 0 1 1|1023 254 63| 63| 18040932|
| | 00 | 0 0 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0|
| | 00 | 0 0 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0|
| | 00 | 0 0 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0|
===========================================================================
Disk Signature 0x2d392d38

Partition #1 NTFS backup boot sector at LBN 18040994.


LBN 0 [C 0, H 0, S 1]

0x0000 33 c0 8e d0 bc 00 7c fb-50 07 50 1f fc be 1b 7c 3ÀŽÐ¼.|ûP.Pü¾|
0x0010 bf 1b 06 50 57 b9 e5 01-f3 a4 cb bd be 07 b1 04 ¿.PW¹å.ó¤Ë½¾.±.
0x0020 38 6e 00 7c 09 75 13 83-c5 10 e2 f4 cd 18 8b f5 8n.|.uƒÅâôÍ‹õ
0x0030 83 c6 10 49 74 19 38 2c-74 f6 a0 b5 07 b4 07 8b ƒÆIt8,tö*µ.´.‹
0x0040 f0 ac 3c 00 74 fc bb 07-00 b4 0e cd 10 eb f2 88 ð¬<.tü»..´.Íëòˆ
0x0050 4e 10 e8 46 00 73 2a fe-46 10 80 7e 04 0b 74 0b NèF.s*þF€~..t.
0x0060 80 7e 04 0c 74 05 a0 b6-07 75 d2 80 46 02 06 83 €~..t.*¶.uÒ€F..ƒ
0x0070 46 08 06 83 56 0a 00 e8-21 00 73 05 a0 b6 07 eb F..ƒV..è!.s.*¶.ë
0x0080 bc 81 3e fe 7d 55 aa 74-0b 80 7e 10 00 74 c8 a0 ¼?>þ}Uªt.€~.tÈ*
0x0090 b7 07 eb a9 8b fc 1e 57-8b f5 cb bf 05 00 8a 56 ·.ë©‹üW‹õË¿..ŠV
0x00a0 00 b4 08 cd 13 72 23 8a-c1 24 3f 98 8a de 8a fc .´.Ír#ŠÁ$?˜ŠÞŠü
0x00b0 43 f7 e3 8b d1 86 d6 b1-06 d2 ee 42 f7 e2 39 56 C÷ã‹Ñ†Ö±.ÒîB÷â9V
0x00c0 0a 77 23 72 05 39 46 08-73 1c b8 01 02 bb 00 7c .w#r.9F.s¸..».|
0x00d0 8b 4e 02 8b 56 00 cd 13-73 51 4f 74 4e 32 e4 8a ‹N.‹V.ÍsQOtN2äŠ
0x00e0 56 00 cd 13 eb e4 8a 56-00 60 bb aa 55 b4 41 cd V.ÍëäŠV.`»ªU´AÍ
0x00f0 13 72 36 81 fb 55 aa 75-30 f6 c1 01 74 2b 61 60 r6?ûUªu0öÁ.t+a`
0x0100 6a 00 6a 00 ff 76 0a ff-76 08 6a 00 68 00 7c 6a j.j.ÿv.ÿv.j.h.|j
0x0110 01 6a 10 b4 42 8b f4 cd-13 61 61 73 0e 4f 74 0b .j´B‹ôÍaas.Ot.
0x0120 32 e4 8a 56 00 cd 13 eb-d6 61 f9 c3 49 6e 76 61 2äŠV.ÍëÖaùÃInva
0x0130 6c 69 64 20 70 61 72 74-69 74 69 6f 6e 20 74 61 lid partition ta
0x0140 62 6c 65 00 45 72 72 6f-72 20 6c 6f 61 64 69 6e ble.Error loadin
0x0150 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 74-69 6e 67 20 73 79 73 74 g operating syst
0x0160 65 6d 00 4d 69 73 73 69-6e 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 em.Missing opera
0x0170 74 69 6e 67 20 73 79 73-74 65 6d 00 00 00 00 00 ting system.....
0x0180 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0190 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01b0 00 00 00 00 00 2c 44 63-38 2d 39 2d 00 00 80 01 .....,Dc8-9-..€.
0x01c0 01 00 07 fe ff ff 3f 00-00 00 64 48 13 01 00 00 ...þÿÿ?...dH...
0x01d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa ..............Uª

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Primary Partition 1
NTFS BIOS Parameter Block Information

BytesPerSector : 512
Sectors Per Cluster : 8
ReservedSectors : 0
Fats : 0
RootEntries : 0
Small Sectors : 0 ( 0 MB )
Media Type : 248 ( 0xf8 )
SectorsPerFat : 0
SectorsPerTrack : 63
Heads : 255
Hidden Sectors : 63
Large Sectors : 0 ( 0 MB )

ClustersPerFRS : 246
Clust/IndxAllocBuf : 1
NumberSectors : 18040931 ( 8809.05 MB )
MftStartLcn : 786432
Mft2StartLcn : 1127558
SerialNumber : 13598879650948453122
Checksum : 0 (0x0)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

LBN 63 [C 0, H 1, S 1]

0x0000 eb 52 90 4e 54 46 53 20-20 20 20 00 02 08 00 00 ëR?NTFS .....
0x0010 00 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00-3f 00 ff 00 3f 00 00 00 .....ø..?.ÿ.?...
0x0020 00 00 00 00 80 00 80 00-63 48 13 01 00 00 00 00 ....€.€.cH.....
0x0030 00 00 0c 00 00 00 00 00-86 34 11 00 00 00 00 00 ........†4.....
0x0040 f6 00 00 00 01 00 00 00-02 13 12 1a fe ec b8 bc ö........þ츼
0x0050 00 00 00 00 fa 33 c0 8e-d0 bc 00 7c fb b8 c0 07 ....ú3ÀŽÐ¼.|û¸À.
0x0060 8e d8 e8 16 00 b8 00 0d-8e c0 33 db c6 06 0e 00 ŽØè.¸..ŽÀ3ÛÆ...
0x0070 10 e8 53 00 68 00 0d 68-6a 02 cb 8a 16 24 00 b4 èS.h..hj.ËŠ$.´
0x0080 08 cd 13 73 05 b9 ff ff-8a f1 66 0f b6 c6 40 66 .Ís.¹ÿÿŠñf.¶Æ@f
0x0090 0f b6 d1 80 e2 3f f7 e2-86 cd c0 ed 06 41 66 0f .¶Ñ€â?÷â†ÍÀí.Af.
0x00a0 b7 c9 66 f7 e1 66 a3 20-00 c3 b4 41 bb aa 55 8a ·Éf÷áf£ .ôA»ªUŠ
0x00b0 16 24 00 cd 13 72 0f 81-fb 55 aa 75 09 f6 c1 01 $.Ír.?ûUªu.öÁ.
0x00c0 74 04 fe 06 14 00 c3 66-60 1e 06 66 a1 10 00 66 t.þ..Ãf`.f¡.f
0x00d0 03 06 1c 00 66 3b 06 20-00 0f 82 3a 00 1e 66 6a ...f;. ..‚:.fj
0x00e0 00 66 50 06 53 66 68 10-00 01 00 80 3e 14 00 00 .fP.Sfh...€>..
0x00f0 0f 85 0c 00 e8 b3 ff 80-3e 14 00 00 0f 84 61 00 .…..è³ÿ€>...„a.
0x0100 b4 42 8a 16 24 00 16 1f-8b f4 cd 13 66 58 5b 07 ´BŠ$.‹ôÍfX[.
0x0110 66 58 66 58 1f eb 2d 66-33 d2 66 0f b7 0e 18 00 fXfXë-f3Òf.·..
0x0120 66 f7 f1 fe c2 8a ca 66-8b d0 66 c1 ea 10 f7 36 f÷ñþŠÊf‹ÐfÁê÷6
0x0130 1a 00 86 d6 8a 16 24 00-8a e8 c0 e4 06 0a cc b8 .†ÖŠ$.ŠèÀä..̸
0x0140 01 02 cd 13 0f 82 19 00-8c c0 05 20 00 8e c0 66 ..Í.‚.ŒÀ. .ŽÀf
0x0150 ff 06 10 00 ff 0e 0e 00-0f 85 6f ff 07 1f 66 61 ÿ..ÿ....…oÿ.fa
0x0160 c3 a0 f8 01 e8 09 00 a0-fb 01 e8 03 00 fb eb fe Ã*ø.è..*û.è..ûëþ
0x0170 b4 01 8b f0 ac 3c 00 74-09 b4 0e bb 07 00 cd 10 ´.‹ð¬<.t.´.»..Í
0x0180 eb f2 c3 0d 0a 41 20 64-69 73 6b 20 72 65 61 64 ëòÃ..A disk read
0x0190 20 65 72 72 6f 72 20 6f-63 63 75 72 72 65 64 00 error occurred.
0x01a0 0d 0a 4e 54 4c 44 52 20-69 73 20 6d 69 73 73 69 ..NTLDR is missi
0x01b0 6e 67 00 0d 0a 4e 54 4c-44 52 20 69 73 20 63 6f ng...NTLDR is co
0x01c0 6d 70 72 65 73 73 65 64-00 0d 0a 50 72 65 73 73 mpressed...Press
0x01d0 20 43 74 72 6c 2b 41 6c-74 2b 44 65 6c 20 74 6f Ctrl+Alt+Del to
0x01e0 20 72 65 73 74 61 72 74-0d 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 restart........
0x01f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-83 a0 b3 c9 00 00 55 aa ........ƒ*³É..Uª





===========================================================================
Target - \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1
9729 Cylinders
255 Heads
63 Sectors Per Track
512 BytesPerSector
12 MediaType

===========================================================================
Master Boot Record
===========================================================================
| B | FS TYPE | START | END | | |
| F | (hex) | C H S| C H S| RELATIVE | TOTAL |
===========================================================================
| | 07 | 0 1 1|1023 254 63| 63| 156296322|
| | 00 | 0 0 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0|
| | 00 | 0 0 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0|
| | 00 | 0 0 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0|
===========================================================================
Disk Signature 0x32393239

Partition #1 NTFS backup boot sector at LBN 156296384.


LBN 0 [C 0, H 0, S 1]

0x0000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0070 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0080 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0090 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0100 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0120 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0130 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0140 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0150 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0160 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0170 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0180 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0190 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-39 32 39 32 00 00 00 01 ........9292....
0x01c0 01 00 07 fe ff ff 3f 00-00 00 82 e4 50 09 00 00 ...þÿÿ?...‚äP...
0x01d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa ..............Uª

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Primary Partition 1
NTFS BIOS Parameter Block Information

BytesPerSector : 512
Sectors Per Cluster : 8
ReservedSectors : 0
Fats : 0
RootEntries : 0
Small Sectors : 0 ( 0 MB )
Media Type : 248 ( 0xf8 )
SectorsPerFat : 0
SectorsPerTrack : 63
Heads : 255
Hidden Sectors : 63
Large Sectors : 0 ( 0 MB )

ClustersPerFRS : 246
Clust/IndxAllocBuf : 1
NumberSectors : 156296321 ( 76316.6 MB )
MftStartLcn : 786432
Mft2StartLcn : 9768520
SerialNumber : 17042902348441923806
Checksum : 0 (0x0)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

LBN 63 [C 0, H 1, S 1]

0x0000 eb 52 90 4e 54 46 53 20-20 20 20 00 02 08 00 00 ëR?NTFS .....
0x0010 00 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00-3f 00 ff 00 3f 00 00 00 .....ø..?.ÿ.?...
0x0020 00 00 00 00 80 00 80 00-81 e4 50 09 00 00 00 00 ....€.€.?äP.....
0x0030 00 00 0c 00 00 00 00 00-48 0e 95 00 00 00 00 00 ........H.•.....
0x0040 f6 00 00 00 01 00 00 00-de 30 8d 84 63 8d 84 ec ö.......Þ0?„c?„ì
0x0050 00 00 00 00 fa 33 c0 8e-d0 bc 00 7c fb b8 c0 07 ....ú3ÀŽÐ¼.|û¸À.
0x0060 8e d8 e8 16 00 b8 00 0d-8e c0 33 db c6 06 0e 00 ŽØè.¸..ŽÀ3ÛÆ...
0x0070 10 e8 53 00 68 00 0d 68-6a 02 cb 8a 16 24 00 b4 èS.h..hj.ËŠ$.´
0x0080 08 cd 13 73 05 b9 ff ff-8a f1 66 0f b6 c6 40 66 .Ís.¹ÿÿŠñf.¶Æ@f
0x0090 0f b6 d1 80 e2 3f f7 e2-86 cd c0 ed 06 41 66 0f .¶Ñ€â?÷â†ÍÀí.Af.
0x00a0 b7 c9 66 f7 e1 66 a3 20-00 c3 b4 41 bb aa 55 8a ·Éf÷áf£ .ôA»ªUŠ
0x00b0 16 24 00 cd 13 72 0f 81-fb 55 aa 75 09 f6 c1 01 $.Ír.?ûUªu.öÁ.
0x00c0 74 04 fe 06 14 00 c3 66-60 1e 06 66 a1 10 00 66 t.þ..Ãf`.f¡.f
0x00d0 03 06 1c 00 66 3b 06 20-00 0f 82 3a 00 1e 66 6a ...f;. ..‚:.fj
0x00e0 00 66 50 06 53 66 68 10-00 01 00 80 3e 14 00 00 .fP.Sfh...€>..
0x00f0 0f 85 0c 00 e8 b3 ff 80-3e 14 00 00 0f 84 61 00 .…..è³ÿ€>...„a.
0x0100 b4 42 8a 16 24 00 16 1f-8b f4 cd 13 66 58 5b 07 ´BŠ$.‹ôÍfX[.
0x0110 66 58 66 58 1f eb 2d 66-33 d2 66 0f b7 0e 18 00 fXfXë-f3Òf.·..
0x0120 66 f7 f1 fe c2 8a ca 66-8b d0 66 c1 ea 10 f7 36 f÷ñþŠÊf‹ÐfÁê÷6
0x0130 1a 00 86 d6 8a 16 24 00-8a e8 c0 e4 06 0a cc b8 .†ÖŠ$.ŠèÀä..̸
0x0140 01 02 cd 13 0f 82 19 00-8c c0 05 20 00 8e c0 66 ..Í.‚.ŒÀ. .ŽÀf
0x0150 ff 06 10 00 ff 0e 0e 00-0f 85 6f ff 07 1f 66 61 ÿ..ÿ....…oÿ.fa
0x0160 c3 a0 f8 01 e8 09 00 a0-fb 01 e8 03 00 fb eb fe Ã*ø.è..*û.è..ûëþ
0x0170 b4 01 8b f0 ac 3c 00 74-09 b4 0e bb 07 00 cd 10 ´.‹ð¬<.t.´.»..Í
0x0180 eb f2 c3 0d 0a 41 20 64-69 73 6b 20 72 65 61 64 ëòÃ..A disk read
0x0190 20 65 72 72 6f 72 20 6f-63 63 75 72 72 65 64 00 error occurred.
0x01a0 0d 0a 4e 54 4c 44 52 20-69 73 20 6d 69 73 73 69 ..NTLDR is missi
0x01b0 6e 67 00 0d 0a 4e 54 4c-44 52 20 69 73 20 63 6f ng...NTLDR is co
0x01c0 6d 70 72 65 73 73 65 64-00 0d 0a 50 72 65 73 73 mpressed...Press
0x01d0 20 43 74 72 6c 2b 41 6c-74 2b 44 65 6c 20 74 6f Ctrl+Alt+Del to
0x01e0 20 72 65 73 74 61 72 74-0d 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 restart........
0x01f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-83 a0 b3 c9 00 00 55 aa ........ƒ*³É..Uª

 

Hi again the_mc I cant thank you enough for this help I have managed as you can see by results below.. IThe object of this exercise is if I can access the Raid/Stripe I can then copy music over to Eide slave then when new rig is built I can format (raid) and setup stripe again and then copy the 70 Gig of music over.. I lost 80 Gig of the same not 6 months ago and this would be another blow to say the least if all this was lost.. (and whats that they say about backup ?? Fingers crossed on the outcome of your reading.. many thanks again.. couldn't paste so have atatched file.

 

Well I hate to be the one to give you bad news but the MBR is all zeroes as you can see. This means there is no disk signature or partition information. The only other thing you could try is a data recovery tool which parses the MFT to look for files. Check out the link for free utilities.

I have not used one of these free programs but I have used a lisenced data recovery utility with some success before.

http://www.freebyte.com/filediskutils/#datarecovery


===========================================================================
Target - \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1
29186 Cylinders
255 Heads
63 Sectors Per Track
512 BytesPerSector
12 MediaType

===========================================================================
Master Boot Record
===========================================================================
| B | FS TYPE | START | END | | |
| F | (hex) | C H S| C H S| RELATIVE | TOTAL |
===========================================================================
| | 00 | 0 0 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0|
| | 00 | 0 0 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0|
| | 00 | 0 0 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0|
| | 00 | 0 0 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0|
===========================================================================
Disk Signature 0x00000000



LBN 0 [C 0, H 0, S 1]

0x0000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0070 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0080 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0090 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0100 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0120 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0130 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0140 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0150 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0160 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0170 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0180 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0190 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

 

u did delete the array in the bios don't you???


when you delete and recreate an array in bios, it deletes the allocation table to create a new one so windows can configure the drive..


i hate to give bad news but.... never ever delete an array when something on it,

maybe some proggy might be able to recover data from the disk....but that disk must somehow be seen by windows....i don't know if he can see them as not allocated, the soft will be able to recover data from


hope that helps

 

Hello mc Many thanks for your interest and help... we live and learn so your info i will remember well. I have managed to recover about 13 gig back which is better than a kick up the arse, I used r-studio recovery but trouble with that is it has only found this out of the one folder of 70 Gig. Tried other recovery progs but no good at all.. Incidentally it would be advisable to Format the RAID 2 x 120 gig western digital SATA in new rig when built. Once again many thanks and in future I will back up to spare HD.

 

No problem....glad to help. With the price of DVD's and external HDD dropping these days backups are way easier than good old tape backup days

 

Hi Wizard are you around.. I have just connected to new rig the 2 SATA RAIDs that I had problem with ,, I start with XP install and F6 and load drivers from floppy SATA Driver Disc but com will not recognise any HD's there. I have checked CMOS and both places to turn on are activated so it aint that.. Ummm Do I have to reinstall back in old com and Format the drives from there ??? (which I am about to try) will let you know out come...

ABIT KV8 PRO Mobo
AMD 64 3200
512 DDR 400

 

Jeeeezz i must be brain dead... of course Old Com not able to recognise SATA HD's so cant Format from there... any ideas are welcome...

 

normally you won't have to reformat "old style"

you first need to create an array in the bios, make sure it is bootable,

then when you start winxp install it should be recognized by windows...else you have a problem with :

a) the controller

b) harddisk

c) both.


hope that helps

 

Ok thanks wizard , I have at last managed to format and create Stripe array but when i try to install XP they still are not recognised (HD's) have deleted and setup 3 or 4 times to no avail. When I go to Disk management it is saying the same as problem right at the start of post that Drives are not initialised and cant seem to find out how to achieve that. Mobo hasn't been a help as F4 is not command for raid setup but have now discovered to use Tab key at one stage during boot.. I'm at a loss :-(

 

Hi again wizard, re your last post with reference to ''controller'' do you mean the 'Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATARaid Controller' ???

 

Hi again wizard.. am all but there have managed to set up stripe and all is well bar the letter/path allocation. As when I try to install OS it cannot find the HD's, I am led to believe it needs to allocated 'C' so as to recognise. I assumed that when i disconnected Eide 'C' and booted from CD with OS it would automatically asign the letter but not so,, The Stripe array has NO letter assigned as I removed assigned 'E' from info in Com management, So how do i assign 'C' for RAID ??

 

Sorted, thought i'd let you guys know how it went.. NEVER, NEVER believe what you read in MOBO Manual or what info can be gathered from Mobo site.. I was lead to believe that that the driver I needed to install on F6 was Sil 3112 Sat Raid .. But not so.. I came accross it by chance in the F6 window 'A'' Drive' install , I never knew that the 5 drivers in window on screen could be scrolled and that was where the driver I needed was ''via sata raid XP' driver.. not the one I had read previous... lesson learnt..