RAID Array no longer recognized

[Junior0579]

I have two 40gig Maxtor's mirrored on a Silicon Image 0680 RAID card. Everything was up and running fine until I pulled the RAID card out and re-seated it. Now when it starts to boot it gets a message that says something to the effect of "Windows config file 'C:\windows\system32\.....' is missing".

I tried to boot from my XP cd and repair the installation, but Windows doesn't recognize the array. I went into the RAID card's BIOS and deleted the mirrored set and then recreated a new one. The Mobo is set to boot from SCSI, but I can't reload Windows or repair it. I really need some data that is on these drives. I also tried to take one of the drives and put it in another PC as a slave and I could see the drive in disk management, but it wasn't assigned a drive letter so I could explore it.

Does anyone have any idea how I could assign the drive a letter on another XP comp so that I can get my data?

Thanks

 

[jackschmittusa]

You may have lost all of your data when you deleted the array and re-created it. I'd check into that more with the manual or the manufacturer's website before doing anything else that may further complicate the data recovery if it can be recovered at all.