Disk Boot Failure

[chrisj]

Hi,
Have recently done a mobo, psu and case upgrade. The mobo is an Asus P5ND2-Sli with my existing Pentium 4 (530 i think), 2x256MB DDR2 PC4300 RAM, XFX6800GS and some SATA disks. I got the system up and running eventually (after having to rebuild the old system as i forgot to backup data on a raid array), set up a new raid array, set it bootable and installed windows. This all worked fine. I then went into windows and copied the data back onto this new raid array (its RAID0) in order to empty up the other 2 drives so i would be able to add them to the array at a later date. This all went fine too. I then used diskmgmt.msc to delete all partitions on the drives I wanted to add to the array, again fine. Now i restarted and the problems began. I went into the BIOS utility to enable the drives for the NVIDIA RAID, then exited. Instead of Windows loading I was presented with the message DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER...
I've tried reseting the BIOS settings, the RAID array with windows on is detected and reported healthy, but i still get the message! HELP ME PLEASE

[MantisCSS]

this has happened to me so many times its rediculous! have u tried taking the sata, or IDE cable out and puttign it back in, if no luck then also reset the CMOS. hope this works

Regards Tich

[chrisj]

Just tried that, same problem. I don't think its a problem with the drives themselves, NVIDIA MediaShield reports them as Healthy, and everything detects them. I'm thinking maybe a problem with my boot record. I've booted into the Recovery console on the XP CD and tried a FIXMBR, which worked and a FIXBOOT, which said it couldn't find the system drive. I also DIR'd the drive and i could see all the folders i expected. Any ideas?

[MantisCSS]

u tried a windows repair!?!? also reseating ur ram, graphics card etc??

[chrisj]

Just gonna try a repair install of windows. If that doesn't work I'll try clear the CMOS and try taking things out. The thing that confuses me is that I was in and running windows one minute, and this

[vaio]

Just checking.......everything enabled and boot order set?

[chrisj]

Yeah 'tis thanks, check those so many times, just in case I'd missed something. Just tried to do a repair install over the previous install, but Windows said it didn't contain a recognisable file system. Gonna fresh install on one of the other disks now and then check I can get to the array from Windows

[MantisCSS]

can u get into safe mode!?!!? maybe a system restore? if not reformat?

[Pie_uk]

hmm normally a windows repair sorts that out, sounds like a proplem which is obviously more complex than that, ill ask a freind of mine who works in data recovery

[chrisj]

Thanks for your help guys. Kinda got everything working now. Installed windows on a non-raid drive and haven't lost any of my data, so that'll do for now i guess

[MantisCSS]

well done m8, i just ended up gettign a new drive

[Pie_uk]

glad to hear you sorted it chrisj good work

[MantisCSS]

lol i just had the same problem again! was pooing ymself then realised my hard drive had now power to it few!!!

[Pie_uk]

LOL lmao

[FatalSaviour]

Are you sure that you set your RAID stripe as the first boot device? Sometimes the BIOS throws a wobbly if it doesn't look there first, and can't find it on whatever is specified as first boot device.