Messed up my dual boot

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   I made another post as well here: http://www.digitalstormonline.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=2956

But long story short... I reinstalled windows on one HD and when I restarted the comp, the dual boot was no longer avail, it went straight to the XP boot only with no options.

From there, it got worse.. I deleted my raid setup and now my computer isn't reading either HDD on startup (Although they are in BIOS as Sata 3 and Sata 4)  ... when I try to reinstall XP on 1 drive again, it says I'd have to format the partition... but I don't want to lose what's on my comp.     When I try to set up a raid again... it says doing so will overwrite other information... does that mean I'll lose all of my data?

Not sure how to get my comp to register them again... my comp doesn't even factor them in... it goes straight to a Network boot which is an infinite loop of chaos... and/or CDROM ...doesn't see an HDD at all.

I reset the BIOS to default and that seemed to do nothing...if not make it worse... any suggestions aside from calling DStorm?

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Kain Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 04 Mar 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 78	Quote Reply Topic: Messed up my dual boot Posted: 23 Jun 2008 at 10:55am
	I made another post as well here: http://www.digitalstormonline.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=2956 But long story short... I reinstalled windows on one HD and when I restarted the comp, the dual boot was no longer avail, it went straight to the XP boot only with no options. From there, it got worse.. I deleted my raid setup and now my computer isn't reading either HDD on startup (Although they are in BIOS as Sata 3 and Sata 4) ... when I try to reinstall XP on 1 drive again, it says I'd have to format the partition... but I don't want to lose what's on my comp. When I try to set up a raid again... it says doing so will overwrite other information... does that mean I'll lose all of my data? Not sure how to get my comp to register them again... my comp doesn't even factor them in... it goes straight to a Network boot which is an infinite loop of chaos... and/or CDROM ...doesn't see an HDD at all. I reset the BIOS to default and that seemed to do nothing...if not make it worse... any suggestions aside from calling DStorm?
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!ender_ Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List DS Veteran Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4219	Quote Reply Posted: 23 Jun 2008 at 10:58am
	no need to post twice, this is technical assistance for sure http://www.digitalstormonline.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=2956

Kain Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 04 Mar 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 78	Quote Reply Posted: 23 Jun 2008 at 11:18am
	Okay thanks... hopefully I can get ahold of them when I get home at 6 east ... and hopefully they'll be willing to work with me over the phone ... yikes I hate this stuff.
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Randy Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Digital Storm Customer Service Joined: 14 May 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 221	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jun 2008 at 3:35pm
	Hi, I did post a possible fix on this thread. http://www.digitalstormonline.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=2956 But here is exactly what I posted on that thread. This should help you in recovering the boot manager. "How to dual boot Vista and XP (with Vista installed first) -- the step-by-step guide with screenshots" http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystep_guide.htm?page=4
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Randy Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Digital Storm Customer Service Joined: 14 May 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 221	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jun 2008 at 3:42pm
	Also for The xp installer to recognize the harddrives in raid. You will have to create a raid driver disc on a floppy :(. I know this sucks. But to do that you have to install a floppy drive into the system. Turn the floppy on in the bios. Then you boot off the motherboard cd in your DSO binder. It should give you a few options. One should be create a raid driver disc. Something on the lines of that. Just follow the instructions it gives you. Once you have made the driver disc. You would boot off the windows xp cd. Pay attention. It will ask you if you would like to load Raid drivers. Press F6 i believe. Press that and load the drivers off the floppy disk. After that is done. When you go to select your harddrives in the windows installation it should see the raided hardrives. Well I hope this helps. Randy - DSO
	Intel E6750 2gbs 800mhz Ram 8800 gt oc 660/1900 320gb hd + 500gb Dual boot - Ubuntu 8.04, Xfce, Compis-fusion & Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Messed up my dual boot

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