Installed RAID controller; Can't boot off other controller...


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Funny situation which Im still trying to process :)

I installed my RAID controller (controller 2) which is detecting everything OK but if I plug in drives to it, my boot drive that is on another controller (controller 1) isnt detected (well it is, I just cant select to boot off it). I had my controller 1 set to RAID as I had a RAID on it but Ive switched it to ACPI and IDE and it is detected but If i try to boot of it, it cant (says insert proper boot device)

How do I gto on fixing this?

Not really reading that and understanding it well, but I'm guessing you mean you've got 2 RAID controllers? If so, chances are they're fighting over the same resources and whatnot. Have you set the right controller to boot in BIOS? Is your motherboard capable of booting from extra BIOS devices?

Sure there's a boot partition on the drive and it's fully detected etc.?

Funny situation which Im still trying to process :)

I installed my RAID controller (controller 2) which is detecting everything OK but if I plug in drives to it, my boot drive that is on another controller (controller 1) isnt detected (well it is, I just cant select to boot off it). I had my controller 1 set to RAID as I had a RAID on it but Ive switched it to ACPI and IDE and it is detected but If i try to boot of it, it cant (says insert proper boot device)

How do I gto on fixing this?

What level of RAID did you have before? You might have to rebuild the array.

Not really reading that and understanding it well, but I'm guessing you mean you've got 2 RAID controllers? If so, chances are they're fighting over the same resources and whatnot. Have you set the right controller to boot in BIOS? Is your motherboard capable of booting from extra BIOS devices?

Sure there's a boot partition on the drive and it's fully detected etc.?

I have now two disk controllers, one was the usual one that comes with your motherboard and another PCI-E one that I bought. My OS drive is hooked up to the one that comes with my motherboard. And now it gives me that message.

The BIOS detects it (the OS boot drive) correctly. I have I believe 3 options for my drives in the BIOS: IDE, AHCI and RAID. I had it on RAID because I used to have 5 drives connected to the controller on the motherboard: 4 in a RAID5 and one standalone. I booted off the standalone.

Now, I cannot boot. I tried IDE and AHCI and same thing. In RAID when press F8 so I can choose where it boots off, it doenst give me the OS drive. In IDE and AHCI it does but it gives me that message.

What is wrong?

What level of RAID did you have before? You might have to rebuild the array.

RAID5. Maybe I should delete the RAID5 I had before? I didnt because noone said anything in this thread: https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1113553-upgrading-raid5-destroy-it-or-leave-it-as-is-and-upgrade/

Also this boot drive, I did a chkdsk on it. Nothing came up and I can view the contents perfectly.

Im actually thinking of doing the impossible (god this would be time consuming)

Controller 1: Remake the old RAID5

Copy from the new HDD with the data to the old RAID5

Check if this config works

If it works, Controller 2 make the new RAID5

Copy from the old RAID5 to the new RAID5 AGAIN all the data :(

Destroy the old RAID5

Long live the new RAID5

Then are you sure your OS is on that drive? If so then your old RAID was the boot drive with your OS on another drive so your going to have to fix your OS drive so it will boot from it.

Completely sure. The drive has a Windows folder. The old RAID didnt have a Windows folder. Enough proof?

And no, obviously I did not rename my Windows folder to something else and there is no old version of Windows.

Could it be a corrupt MBR?

I really want to avoid doing the above so I ran before hand the Windows 7 DVD and tried a system repair. It "repaired" my system saying that I had no system partition on the HDD. It "repaired" it but still cannot boot.

I dont think this has anything to do with the array. Something got corrupted on my boot HDD.

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