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Hard disk help

  • 06-09-2007 10:15am
    #1
    chump
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,807 ✭✭✭


    Hello,

    My brother has a dell system that is out of warranty. It had 2 disks in raid-0 (I believe). There was problems with the computer and it kept crashing and eventually became un-useable. We decided to un-raid the disks and more trouble occurred.

    I now have one of these disks hooked up to my dell pc - automatically was slaved, and have reformatted.

    What I want to do is fairly straight forward.
    Prepare the disk to run as a master on my bros pc.
    IE. Fix the mbr, load up XP sp2, and then throw it back into his pc and for it to start up automatically.

    Now I tried setting it as the only disk on this pc, but no joy, no joy booting from a windows cd which confuses me terribly. Nothing happens, just hangs with a black screen.
    Any advice would be great.


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  • #2
    chump
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,807 ✭✭✭chump


    It say's on startup when it see's the disk:
    "this drive is controlled by the raid bios"
    I want to reverse this and make it a regular drive!

    help me plz :D


  • #3
    tippbhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭tippbhoy


    chump wrote:
    Hello,

    My brother has a dell system that is out of warranty. It had 2 disks in raid-0 (I believe). There was problems with the computer and it kept crashing and eventually became un-useable. We decided to un-raid the disks and more trouble occurred.

    I now have one of these disks hooked up to my dell pc - automatically was slaved, and have reformatted.

    What I want to do is fairly straight forward.
    Prepare the disk to run as a master on my bros pc.
    IE. Fix the mbr, load up XP sp2, and then throw it back into his pc and for it to start up automatically.

    Now I tried setting it as the only disk on this pc, but no joy, no joy booting from a windows cd which confuses me terribly. Nothing happens, just hangs with a black screen.
    Any advice would be great.


    This seems too obvious so i'm open to correction, why not just put the disk back into your brother's PC and reformat/install the O/S.


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