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Raid problems, rebuild?

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by bobdolejunkie

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I'm working on a cliets computer right now, and it's a raid 0 i believe. It has 2 hard drives, when they brought it in, they had a bunch of viruses but it would boot. Before we knew it was a raid, we took out the hard drives and tried virus scanning them on other computer. One computer didn't detect the drives, and the other computer came up with a windows xp scan disk type of deal that kept saying it had bad links and lost chain clusters. It just kept repeating that for like 2 hours, so we unplugged it, put both drives in the original machine, it booted, norton came up with an error saying it had this bloodhound.w32.ep virus and couldn't be cleaned, i tried to restart in safe mode to scan and now it doesn't boot into windows, we keep getting different blue screen stop errors. Please help, i don't know much about raid and i want to know if there is a way to repair this.

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by cg it

boy thats an ooops damnit and then some. first need to know whether its really a RAID and after that whether its a hardware RAID or Software RAID. If it's hardware, we need to know if it's SCSI or if it's IDE Promise. Hardware RAIDs have their own utilities for recovering and rebuilding arrays.

If its a software RAID created in Windows, Windows has it's own procedure for rebuilding the array.

another thing is blue screen stop errors usually have some information with it. We need that as well.

by cg it

I will say this, if you have a Norton Antivirus CD, you can boot from that, put definitions on a floppy and scan using the definitions that are on the floppy[s]from that [pain in the butt to do to create the floppies with definitions but it works]. You can also get the particular virus removal tool from their web site along with instructions on how to manually remove the virus.

by bobdolejunkie

Pretty sure it's a hardware raid, IDE. Now the blue screen errors don't have any particular information in them, they're just basic stop errors with no explaination. I think we're going to try the boot to norton idea, we can now get it in safe mode for a couple of minutes, but while we're running norton from safe mode, it shuts down with a blue screen error.

by willcomp

If it's hardware RAID, a prompt from the RAID controller should display during bootup. Press key combo to enter controller configuration and rebuild array from menu provided.

Bloodhound.xxx is NAV generic designator for unknown viruses detected by heuristic scan. In other words, it detected something but doesn't know what it is. There are no specific removal tools and NAV usually won't delete/remove them either. You have to manually remove listed files.

by bobdolejunkie

We're reformating the hard drives and reinstalling windows, finally got some patches that made windows stable, but it was an illegal ver. of windows and the owner is buying one for us to reinstall, thank anyways

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