I deleted the raid driver from a computer I built about 4 years ago and have since given to my parents. They said that startup was taking too long and I agreed with them. It was taking way too long for windows to boot up. I started with spyware/virus scans then defrag these seemed to help some but not as much as I hoped. So I decided to try deleting some of the start up programs. The raid driver came with the MOBO and loaded in XP on start up. I only have one SATA drive and two IDE drives and was not running a raid array. The SATA hard disk is/was the C: drive with the operating system. I disabled the raid by exiting the program with the taskbar icon by the clock. That seemed to have no affect on the system so I deleted it with add/remove programs. Now XP won't boot on the SATA drive. The Bios recognizes the SATA drive on booting up (I can see the drive on the bios screen) and then Xp logo may or may not briefly show on the screen then the computer reboots again and I get the windows screen saying there was a problem do I want to try safe mode ect. last known configuration that worked or boot normally. All those options send me into the same endless boot loop/cycle. I have tried to boot with and use windows cd recovery but windows does not recognize the drive. When I boot from the win XP cd and use the F6 function for the SCSI driver. I am told to put the driver disk in the A: drive (mine is a 3.5 floppy and wont hold the raid driver which is a 7mb file) and trying to use the cd with the raid driver on it does not work as windows recovery wants to use the A: drive for installing the driver. I have now reinstalled XP onto one of the IDE drives and at first did not see the SATA drive. Now I have installed the motherboard drivers onto the IDE drive with the newly installed XP system and XP sees the SATA drive and the files on it. But what I really want is to get the SATA drive and all its files back to booting up as before.
Does anyone have recommendations on how I can get the SATA drive back to booting as the C: drive? Without having to reformat it?
Also tried the seagate tools cd. It will help me install a new drive but wants to reformat it. Seagate diagnostics sees and scans the SATA drive and reports no problems.
System is:
Windows XP Pro
Soyo KT600 ULTRA Motherboard
AMD XP 2200 CPU
512 RAM
ATI ALL IN WONDER 8500 Video
Seagate Sata 150Gig HD
Maxtor IDE 80Gig HD
Maxtor IDE 8Gig HD
1 DVD ROM
1 CD-RW
Thank You in advance for all input.
Does anyone have recommendations on how I can get the SATA drive back to booting as the C: drive? Without having to reformat it?
Also tried the seagate tools cd. It will help me install a new drive but wants to reformat it. Seagate diagnostics sees and scans the SATA drive and reports no problems.
System is:
Windows XP Pro
Soyo KT600 ULTRA Motherboard
AMD XP 2200 CPU
512 RAM
ATI ALL IN WONDER 8500 Video
Seagate Sata 150Gig HD
Maxtor IDE 80Gig HD
Maxtor IDE 8Gig HD
1 DVD ROM
1 CD-RW
Thank You in advance for all input.