Raid volume error and reboot not happening

Question

As i started up windows, i noticed in a balloon in the bottom right-hand corner i had a RAID Volume Error!!!!

I rebooted my system pressed "Ctrl and I" and i reset the disk (the disk with the error) to NON-RAID!!

To be honest i wasn't sure what i was doing!!!
Now the system will not boot!!

As it boots, i See the following

ID NAME LEVEL STRIP SIZE STATUS BOOTABLE

0 ARRAY RAID0(Stripe) 128kb 298.0GB Failed No

And below showing the two HDD's i have

PORT DRIVE MODEL SERIAL# SIZE TYPE/STATUS (vol ID)

0 WDC WD1600JD-75H WD-WMAL93939551 149.0GB MEMBER DISK (0)

1 WDC WD1600JD-75H WD-WMAL93913863 149.0GB NON-RAID DISK

It then says:

Strike F1 key to continue, F2 to run the set-up utility

I press F1 at then it says:

No boot device available

strike F1 to retry, F2 for set-up utility

I continue to press F1 I go in circles or if i press F2, i then go into unfamiliar ground and am afraid to change something i shouldn't!!

Another avenue i have tried, is pressing F12 on the dell screen and then run HARD DRIVE DIAGNOSTICS, with both HDD's passing!!

If anyone can help pease do.
I have thought of using the system restore, but don't want to loose any data if possible
can anyone help, or shal i get an engineer out???

ejn63 · Answer

Once you reset the drive to non-RAID, you destroyed the array. You're going to need to reload everything from the beginning now.

andrew101 · Answer

so i'm gonna have to do a system restore then am I??   how do i do that?  is it ctrl-F11?

andrew101 · Answer

what is the array??

also, as one of my HDD's is still ok (not set to NON-RAID), am i still able to keep the data on the ok HDD??
or will i have to restore everthing, therefore loose everything i had saved on my pc??

shesagordie · Answer

andrew101   You are using a RAID-0, that does not provide any redundancy.   When you changed RAID-0 to non-RAID, it makes the data unrecoverable, because it's striped across the two drives.   When you have RAID-0, always be certain to keep your data backups current.   Bev.       Message Edited by shesagordie on 10-16-2006 01:54 PM

shesagordie · Answer

andrew101

The Dell PC Restore by Symantec, will not work on a failed RAID-0 array. You need to carry out a clean reinstall of windows, the drivers and applications.

Make certain that that you have all the Dell reinstallation CD/DVDs on hand for this. If you don't have the CD/DVDs, then contact Dell and request them,

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_winxp&message.id=204505

Bev.

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Raid volume error and reboot not happening

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