I've totally screwed up! I STUPIDLY did not make a recent backup, and now am desparate to acccess files. I hope that someone can help me as to what to do!
I had a functioning mirrored RAID 1 setup with Win XP using the onboard (AMD) RAID controller. The disks were divided into two partions, one for the OS, and one that was not ever formatted.
I tried to boot off of only one of the two discs, and things went to hell from there. I tried booting using the bios set to all three modes - RAID, AHCI, and IDE. I (stupidly) entered the RAID controller to try re-assigning one drive and that probably fried it. I tried using windows "recovery console" but it doesnt see any windows installation on the disk. I then used the "fixmbr" command on that disk, then I tried the "FIXBOOT" command, and now that disk shows as a corrupted partition table and is completely inaccessable.
I havent (yet) totally fried the other disk - it shows up under Windows Explorer in Win7, but is inaccessable. Looking at the disk under "Disk Management" in "computer management" shows the OS partition still exists, but it is labled as "RAW" instead of NTFS or FAT32. Can anyone help me to figure out how to access the files on that disk?
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for ANY help!
Gigabyte MA78GM-US2H motherboard (rev. 1.0 with AMD 780G + SB700 Chipset)
AMD Kuma 7750 processor (passive cooling for QUIET!)
4 gigs ram
OCZ Vertex 60gb SSD w/ windows 7 (now)
WAS: Windows XP on 2x 250gb Samsung hard drives in RAID 1, now corrupted!
I had a functioning mirrored RAID 1 setup with Win XP using the onboard (AMD) RAID controller. The disks were divided into two partions, one for the OS, and one that was not ever formatted.
I tried to boot off of only one of the two discs, and things went to hell from there. I tried booting using the bios set to all three modes - RAID, AHCI, and IDE. I (stupidly) entered the RAID controller to try re-assigning one drive and that probably fried it. I tried using windows "recovery console" but it doesnt see any windows installation on the disk. I then used the "fixmbr" command on that disk, then I tried the "FIXBOOT" command, and now that disk shows as a corrupted partition table and is completely inaccessable.
I havent (yet) totally fried the other disk - it shows up under Windows Explorer in Win7, but is inaccessable. Looking at the disk under "Disk Management" in "computer management" shows the OS partition still exists, but it is labled as "RAW" instead of NTFS or FAT32. Can anyone help me to figure out how to access the files on that disk?
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for ANY help!
Gigabyte MA78GM-US2H motherboard (rev. 1.0 with AMD 780G + SB700 Chipset)
AMD Kuma 7750 processor (passive cooling for QUIET!)
4 gigs ram
OCZ Vertex 60gb SSD w/ windows 7 (now)
WAS: Windows XP on 2x 250gb Samsung hard drives in RAID 1, now corrupted!