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| Thread ID: 95912 | 2008-12-21 06:35:00 | Disc boot error after clean install | GeneralKanos (13592) | Press F1 |
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| 731421 | 2008-12-21 09:07:00 | Speedy, read the posts before you give help. I stated that this is not a 'new' pc. It was running and all Ive done is install vista again. The 250Gb drives were ALREADY set up in a raid array. They appear as one 500Gb drive which I REINSTALLED vista on. And Ive tried taking out the 160Gb to no avail.... So you installed Vista. Did you install Vista in the first place? By any chance did you miss a step involved where the installion asks for a driver like RAID before you did the next thing? I have read through this thread but can make no sense of it. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 731422 | 2008-12-21 17:27:00 | Same thing happened to me and the same error im thinking of buying a new HD just in case this one buggers up again all we did was formatted the HD using the d-dos commands as it wouldn't format any other way but then it wouldn't boot up the cd first so we unplugged the HD (just the power lead) and restarted the computer waited for the CD to boot up then the CD booted we waited for windows to start then we plugged the HD back in and windows installed fine and now my computer is running good |
cutter (14428) | ||
| 731423 | 2008-12-21 19:41:00 | Ok Ill give a quick run down again to explain things. Sorry if I may have been a bit confusing, Ive been a bit stressed recently. I had a computer that was working fine. two 250Gb drives in RAID 0. When I first put the HDD's in I had to run the RAID setup thing that appeared just after the post but that was all. Everytime afterwards the RAID array appears as healthy (and when I do boot into windows the HDD's act normally, I can read, write and copy fine). I have another 160Gb drive that I installed Home Premium on but nothing else. I decided to do a reinstall on the raid array so I put the system disc in, formatted and installed windows again, including the mobo and gpu drivers. It failed. So I repeated the process but to no avail. I have checked the sequence in the bios, nothing has changed. I have tried unplugging the 160Gb. I dont think I've missed anything... |
GeneralKanos (13592) | ||
| 731424 | 2008-12-21 21:03:00 | try it with just one HDD | cutter (14428) | ||
| 731425 | 2008-12-21 21:16:00 | try it with just one HDD You mean no RAID, and have the two 250Gb drives as seperate drives? |
GeneralKanos (13592) | ||
| 731426 | 2008-12-21 21:22:00 | RAID 0 is hopeless anyway. If one hdd dies, so does the other If it supports another RAID option, use that Did you look in the ASUS forum, to see if someone had the same prob? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 731427 | 2008-12-21 21:24:00 | try setting one 250GB HD to the master and format the HD and try installing windows again idk why you have so many HDS? lol |
cutter (14428) | ||
| 731428 | 2008-12-21 21:28:00 | Hmm ok Ill see if it works on one HDD. The only reason I used RAID 0 is for speed and I guess I dont really notice or need that... |
GeneralKanos (13592) | ||
| 731429 | 2008-12-21 21:28:00 | GK, where are you at with this.....? Your error message states that the HDD selected does not have a bootable disk.....now this can happen when you have an extra disc to the 1 that gets the o/s installed on it.... when i had this issue, i had scsi raid + sata raid, so i had to enable other boot pci card, then select hard drive on that... with yours, you have sata raid as 1st boot device, and selected array no?....sata boot options are much more precise than ide where you had master\slave, with multi port controllers, you have to be able to id the drive to port number and actually select that port...well you do with P35 \ICH9 anyway...... If I were you, I would remove the single drive, then run a fix mbr to ensure the active partition and boot scraps to the raid array, then once up and running, attach your single 3rd disc... |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 731430 | 2008-12-21 21:37:00 | Did you look in the ASUS forum, to see if someone had the same prob? the same thing happened to me on the computer im on now it should work if he can reformat it and reinstall windows all i did was got the d-dos screen up formatted it from there as my CD wouldn't format my HD as my HD was trying to boot up first so i just unplugged it restarted my computer waited for the boot from disk screen booted the disk up and windows started installing then i plugged my HD back in and now the computer is fine just abit slow and i will most probably be doing it again when i get my new HD and hopefully that will be Tuesday |
cutter (14428) | ||
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