help windows wont start - Page 2

Aragorn · 22-05-2006, 14:42

You aren't using the built-in RAID on an NForce mobo are you (NVRaid)? That's what corrupted my Raid 1 array!

Hector's House · 22-05-2006, 14:47

the sata drives are striped and they are only a few months old, do you mean the raid configuration utility in the bios?

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yes I am it's an abit AN7 mobo

22-05-2006, 14:47

yes. If the drive is striped it will show as 1 drive if the array is broken the drive in theory will not show in setup as its broken. The array could be damaged or a drive died in the array showing windows as a broken hdd,This in turn will show why files are missing or corrupt when you try to boot

TheBlueRaja · 22-05-2006, 14:48

Try this page out:-

http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=313

Quote:

Repairing Windows XP in Eight Commands

Most of us have seen it at one time or another; perhaps on our own PC, the PC of a loved one, or perhaps a PC at your place of employment. The system spends weeks or months operating in a smooth fashion, taking you to the far reaches of the wide, wibbly web, and after one particularly late evening of browsing and gaming, you shut your PC off and go to bed. Millions of people across the globe do just this every night, but a few of us have turned our PCs on the next day not to the standard Windows XP loading screen, but instead this dreaded error:

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:

\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

EDIT: Sorry, just noticed this is a RAID issue.

Hector's House · 22-05-2006, 14:52

this what you mean?

Aragorn · 22-05-2006, 14:59

The AN7 uses a Silicon Image controller, not the NVRaid I had probs with.

That Pic looks like the RAID bios screen. What does it say about the Striped set - healthy, degraded? Can't see in the pic.

Strzelecki · 22-05-2006, 15:04

It's showing as healthy, both drives appear in the top part on SI BIOses when this is so. You will need the driver to F6 when using an XP CD though. I would have put this down to a corrupted registry, which you could try rolling back (http://www.winternals.com/Products/R...r/Default.aspx) or try making a WinbootCD (PE type disk) and booting from it and using the registry rollback tool.

Hector's House · 22-05-2006, 15:09

Guess who can't find their driver disk! I'll have to go and find it, I'll let you know how I get on when I do and thank you all for the help

22-05-2006, 15:13

it will be a floppy anyway.You will be able to download the floppy iso and create one anyway

Aragorn · 22-05-2006, 15:22

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Originally Posted by Hector's House

Guess who can't find their driver disk! I'll have to go and find it, I'll let you know how I get on when I do and thank you all for the help

http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/...es=1&model=158

Hector's House · 22-05-2006, 16:59

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Originally Posted by Aragorn

http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/...es=1&model=158

that is what I was going to look for but its 3 meg in size so I'll need to put it on a cd I assume

Aragorn · 22-05-2006, 17:07

The zip file contains a 'disk' subdirectory which is the 270Kb you need on the floppy disk. The rest is for installing once Windows is running.

Hector's House · 22-05-2006, 17:13

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Originally Posted by Aragorn

The zip file contains a 'disk' subdirectory which is the 270Kb you need on the floppy disk. The rest is for installing once Windows is running.

Thanks mate and consider yourself repped

**Maggy** · 22-05-2006, 17:29

So is there a Helpful Post nomination here?

Hector's House · 23-05-2006, 14:25

Just want to say thanks to Aragorn, Zinglebarb and every one else who has tried to help, I'm now back using my main pc, I did a repair overwrite and the only thing that appears to have got corrupted is my AVG antivirus, everything else appears to have survived.

Incognitas, I think you are right so how do I do that?