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Is your array formatted in NTFS?


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Actually, forget filesystem. It will just be more complicated than it needs to be, doing what I was thinking. Let's do a repair install. Boot from your Windows CD.

You will be prompted to "press F6 to install any third party SCSI or RAID drivers". Most users will not have to press F6, but if you are running RAID, SCSI or unsupported ATA controllers, then you need your controller drivers on a floppy disk. (This is important, in your case!)

Once completed, you will be confronted with "Windows Setup". You will be asked to setup up Windows, or repair Windows with the recovery console. Choose the FIRST option, NOT recovery console.



Choose F8 to continue.



Next, Windows Setup will find existing Windows XP/2000 installations. You will be asked to repair an existing XP installation or install a fresh copy of Windows XP/2000.

If no installations are found, then you will not be given the option to repair. This may happen if the data or partition on your drive is too corrupted.



That should be it. Windows XP/2000 will appear to be installing itself for the first time, but it will retain all of your data and settings. Just follow the prompts, have your CD-KEY handy and hope for the best!

Thanks to AMDAthlon64X2, from whom I "borrowed" this simplified tutorial.


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Rodents !
I really appreciate your reply! Sorry for not returning it .. I just stopped coming here because I never though I would get any help, clearly I was mistaken :O

Okay, so I had already done those exact steps earlier .. and the problem was this:
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Missing or corrupt windows\system32\c_437.nls
So I would go to reapir
Once I got to here: I would get this error:

No hard drive found to repair on ...



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You will be prompted to "press F6 to install any third party SCSI or RAID drivers". Most users will not have to press F6, but if you are running RAID, SCSI or unsupported ATA controllers, then you need your controller drivers on a floppy disk. (This is important, in your case!)
You must have the drivers for your SATA hard drives as well as the drivers for RAID0 on either a floppy drive or a USB thumb drive. That will allow the PC to detect the drive and be told they're in a RAID0 array.


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Forgive me for the stupid question, ><

But where would I get the SATA driver data ?

I have the RAID0 installation data on my floppy disc, but I don't know where to get the SATA stuff


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They probably can be found on your motherboard's manufacturer's website, or your Hard Drive manufacturer's website.


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