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Mirrored raid array no longer bootable

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by camputer

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I'm working on a computer in which the OS resides on two drives in a mirrored array. The Promise raid utility says the array is "functional" and yet after it starts to boot, the system restarts almost immediately.

Working on it has proven challenging. Last Known Config and safe mode all result in a restart.

Booting from a disk, be it an XP install disc or a recovery tools disc, has resulted in the drive not being visible (even after loading the raid drivers via a floppy disc).

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

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by nepenthe0

To prevent automatic restart, boot into Safe Mode by tapping the F8 key during the early boot phase (POST = Power-on Self Test).

Use the arrow keys to scroll to the line that says [i]Disable automatic restart on system failure[/i]. Hit [i]Enter[/i].

Alas, I can't offer you a solution, but you asked for [i]any suggestions[/i]...

Good luck.

Rick/Portland, OR

by camputer

Thanks for the suggestion, which I hadn't thought of. It resulted in a Stop error which indicated a hard drive problem. In the end, though unsure of the result I would get, I took one drive out of the array and connected it to an ordinary IDE port, booting it as a single IDE drive. It booted properly after some errors were resolved via diskcheck. I then put it back into the array where the array rebuilt itself. It's been working properly since.

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