100 gigs down the drain maybe?????

I hope someone can help otherwise its 100 gigs down the drain
I have a p4 2.0, 512 ddr with 2 seagate st360021a 60 gig drives in a raid striped array.the motherboard is a msi 845 ultra "ms-6398"

after a power loss system will not reboot to xp,miising or corrupt windows\system32\config\system.
on reboot shows raid mbfasttrak133 lite 2.00.1.22 loaded,
i then boot from cd to try to repair windows, i press f6 to load the raid drivers,but the version i have on disk is 2.00.0.21. this loads successfully.i go to the repair option by pressing r, it finds the windows dir,it shows
1: c:\windows. I press 1 then enter, the computer now freezes and will not go any further. I have also tried reinstalling xp again. But the computer freezes whilst searching for the previous version of windows.
I am assuming there is a mismatch with the raid driver build, the one installed on the computer is build 22 and the one i install with f6 is build 21.
I cannot find build 22 anywhere so how do i change the computer version back to build 22.
Any help will be much appreciated i do not want to lose 100 gigs of info

virgil

unno my dad had the same problem and it turned out to be faulty ram not sure if that is your problem but that was his. we bought new ram and the company that sent the computer to him gave him a new stick and so now he has 512mb and all problems solved.

[vee_ess]

Try copying what was on the hard drives and then formatting them because it looks like some files probably got corrupted with an improper shutdown.

Are you familiar with the Automated System Recovery feature in Win XP?
This is a wonderful recovery feature that will format the partition where the OS is loacated and find the ASR Backup via a floppy disk.
You boot up on the cd press F6 to load the Raid drivers and immediately press F2 to envoke ASR.
From there just follow instructions.

The only problem is if you did not perform a ASR backup prior to the failure, this feature would not be available to you.
This ASR backup is performed by the MS Backup feature in WinXP.
When you double click on the Win Backup, on the first screen, look about 3/4 the way down that page and find the advanced screen.
Click on this Advanced word, on the next screen you will be asked if you want to backup the OS using ASR?
Select this feature.
If you have a partition on the hd that does not contain any OS.
You can place the backup there, if not you are going to have to use a DVD writer or CDRW writer to do the backup to.
It will be a gig and a half or about that size.
I have my hd partitioned via a 12gig for the OS, then the rest as a data partition.
I keep the backup on the data end of the hard drive along with all the important files, games etc. Most programs are also installed into the data partition.
Once you have the backup done. All you need to do is boot on the cd, press F6 for the scsi drivers, and imediately press F2 to envoke the ASR. Have the scsi drivers floppy ready and the ASR floppy that was created during the backup ready.
After installing the scsi drivers you may place the ASR floppy in the floppy disk.
The program will just copy some files to the hard drive, then it will began to format the OS partition. After the format is complete it will began to write files to the partition.
After the OS is basically installed, it will acess the floppy and all your programs, email, settings, drivers everything just the way you had it at the backup time will began to install.
Takes only about half hour and you are done, system restored.

are you familiar with macs? it doesnt happen on them =\

i think formatting is the easiest way

[vee_ess]

Originally Posted by Anonymous

are you familiar with macs? it doesnt happen on them =\

Oh, how wrong you are. For your personal edification, Macs use the same hard drives that PC's do. In the case of a power failure, if some system files are being accessed at the moment of the failure, the Mac doesn't have a secure enough file system to protect against that. So whatever "doesn't happen on them" is probably being used because they aren't modular enough to do anything. If you'd like to open discussion I'd be happy to continue as long as it stays friendly