Need help bad..

[Bluerain]

Hi

I have Raid 0 on 2 hard drives 120 gigs each (240)..I'm running XP home on a 1.2 AMD Atlon 512 mb ramwith a Via chipset.

My drives are assigned Primary and secondary and have their own cable connected directly to the controller.

My cd-rom and DVD player are directly connected to my motherboard on seperate cables.

I can't boot up and can't get into safe mode. When I try safe mode it does it system check and stops on O/O which is O/O defrag program that I had installed for 2 years with no problem.I can't even get into recovery with the XP disk as it keeps freezing on this program O/O defrag.

I remember setting up O/0 defrag to check files upon booting and it took only a few seconds to do it then it would boot.It seems now there's something wrong with O/O defrag program preventing me from booting.

I wanted to go into safemode to removed O/O defrag but when I hit enter for safemode it does it thing and when it reaches O/O defrag program it just freezes.

How can I get in to remove this program to see if I can continue booting?

I have tons of shiat on these drives and cannot lose this data for anything.

I had 2 old drives (40 gigs each) and installed windows XP on them (Raid O also)and now up and running and posting here.

I then hooked up the 2 drives in question ..one on each cable where the other drives are. I put the old C drive on the same cable as the the new C drive and put the old D drive on the same cable as the new D drive.

But this is not working as the old drives don't seem to exist anywhere.When booting it only shows new drives and when I look into my computer they aren't there also.

I was hoping I could access my data this way and then transfer all my data to a external drive when I buy one this Tuesday.

Is there anyway to get access to this data? I don't care about raid 0 anymore as when I get my data back I'm getting rid of Raid and will keep all my data on external drives in future and just run it normally.

Thanks for your time..

Blue


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System: Running XP
AMD 1.2 266 FSB
GA-7DX
AMD Athlon (k7) Chipset AMD 650 With VIA 686B
512 ram
GTS 2 ultra DDR 64
2 HD 120 Gigs each-RAID 0 Promise fastrack 100 controller card.
Sony DRU510A
Lite-on Dvd Rom
Audigy 2

 

[OSX]

If it's RAID 0 you're pretty much screwed.

 

[Bluerain]

Is there anyway to get the system i'm on now which is also raid 0 to recognized the data on the drives in question?

There has to be a way to acces them drives without using them to boot .

Blue

 

[Markbnj]

If you have access to another machine, or a friend can help, why not burn a boot CD with the appropriate RAID drivers, but without the program that is causing trouble?

 

[Baked]

Another way to stay away from RAID 0. People who tell you RAID 0 has the same failure rate as single HD are full of sh!t. Single HD is infinite times easier to backup and recover if sh!t happens.

BTW, if your RAID 0 array fails, you're screwed.

 

[East17]

First of all ... STOP USING RAID 0 for critical data !!!

If you have 2 HDD's in RAID ... make 1 or 2 partitions in RAID 0 to get the speed you desire so much ... but also make a RAID 1 partition of 10-40GB where you should keep you most important data.

Manipulate your data on the RAID 0 partitions all you want ... but ... at the end of the day copy it on the RAID 1 partition to make sure you won't loose it .

Now .. to solve you problem ... get another HDD ... install windows on it and the boot from that drive and see if you cand recognise the data on the RAID 0 drives ... if you can't see that data ... try to find a program to recover dta from RAID failures .