I just installed a SATA card in my PC and I was trying to disable the RAID, I know I'm suppose to do this in the BIOS, but I ended up reading something online & I was trying something different (don't ask why). I ended up pressing delete when restarting this brought me to a screen that was saying something about the RAID drive and how the drive was not found...anyways, I restarted the computer and it froze on the windows xp screen. The computer would not respond to me trying to power off, so I unplugged the power. Now it can't locate the operating system.

What should I do now? I know one option could be to make those 6 boot disks, but don't you have to install a fresh operating system after running those? Or do they get you back to where you were before the problem occured?

1) Is there an easy way to fix this?
2) If I have to use the 6 boot disks, can someone tell me the whole process?

Hello Sadie

Welcome to PC Help Forums

I'm not up on Raid personally but I feel sure one of our Tech Team will be able to assist you as soon as they can.

O.K. I figured out what the bootdisks do. But I was wondering if there was a way I could rescue my PC without installing windows again?

Hi Sadie,

If there was a raid set created for your disk(s) and this was deleted, then nope, I'm afraid everything would have been deleted. There is software and companies that provide data recovery for deleted raid disks, if you have important information you need to retrieve, otherwise reinstallation would be your best option.

If you only have one HDD connected to your SATA card, then you don't need to worry about the onboard RAID. RAID can only be used in conjunction with 2 or more HDD's.