soc11lax98 Posted August 7, 2005 Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 I have duel opteron processors, the mother board is Tyan tiger for opterons, and I have 4 256 hdd with raid and they're stripped. essentially one 512 drive... My problem is that everytime I try to run a reinstall or repair the computer stops and says it can't because files are missing (I think, it's been a while). So I decided to instead by a new hdd so that I could install windows on it and reinstall all my programs then just clone that new hard drive over to my raid drives so that I'd have a clean system. However when I install windows SP2 on my new drive it freezes on a black screen after the installation is complete and it reboots to enter windows. Windows will open in safe mode on the new hdd, but it goes black everytime I try to run it in normal mode. I thought this might be because of my duel processors so during installation I selected ACPI compatible multiprocessor and it still wouldn't work... unfortunetly I've tried to go back to my bios and disable the new drive in order to boot off of my raid drives but that doesn't work any more... I think I've messed that up pretty good :unsure: . SO if any one had suggestions on how I can install windows on my new hdd I'd be greatly thankful. It's a western digital 120 EIDE hdd.thanks a million Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurdy Posted August 7, 2005 Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 Raid 0?Have you tried sfc/scannow to try and replace missing files? - I'm assuming the missing files are system files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soc11lax98 Posted August 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 No I didn't try the replace files.... but now it's to late because I can't run windows on my raid hdd's. I don't know how to check what raid I have either.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurdy Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Just for clarification.If you physically disconnect the new drive from your will the PC boot up on your raid set up?If not what procedure are you following to try and run Windows Repair from the CD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 You cannot repair an XP installation on RAID. It will make you loose control over the CD-ROM.A format and re-install is the only option.http://forums.neoplanet.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=20185 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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