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Here's what happened. Old MOBO (ASUS) died (wouldn't even load bios).
bought new MOBO--ASUS M3N78-EM, AMD Athlon 2.8ghz Dual Core, 4g DDR2.
old system was set RAID stripped (2 HDD 150G each) (forgot to mark which was SATA1 & SATA2 respectively--but old MOBO only had 2, new one has 6).
Got new system up and running. Problem is when i try to run system repair from Vista CD it will not load drivers from CD that came with MOBO. BIOS is showing "healthy RAID" but in repair it's not recognizing the harddrives/system. I did get it to recognize it once; however, repair ran for about 10 minutes then stated it couldn't fix the problem. Since then I have not been able to get it to recognize it no matter what I try. Even tried switching the cables on the board from SATA1 and SATA2
Perhaps the main question I have is do I need to clear the MBR before running the repair? Would that help or hurt? I do not want to lose the information on my drives. Should I get a fresh drive do a clean install of vista then get it to recognize the other drives? I'm very frustrated and have been working on this for a while now. I've gone to ASUS web site and downloaded the 32 bit drivers but the repair option tells me the disk doesn't have anything (the drivers are a .exe file).
any help would be appreciated.
bought new MOBO--ASUS M3N78-EM, AMD Athlon 2.8ghz Dual Core, 4g DDR2.
old system was set RAID stripped (2 HDD 150G each) (forgot to mark which was SATA1 & SATA2 respectively--but old MOBO only had 2, new one has 6).
Got new system up and running. Problem is when i try to run system repair from Vista CD it will not load drivers from CD that came with MOBO. BIOS is showing "healthy RAID" but in repair it's not recognizing the harddrives/system. I did get it to recognize it once; however, repair ran for about 10 minutes then stated it couldn't fix the problem. Since then I have not been able to get it to recognize it no matter what I try. Even tried switching the cables on the board from SATA1 and SATA2
Perhaps the main question I have is do I need to clear the MBR before running the repair? Would that help or hurt? I do not want to lose the information on my drives. Should I get a fresh drive do a clean install of vista then get it to recognize the other drives? I'm very frustrated and have been working on this for a while now. I've gone to ASUS web site and downloaded the 32 bit drivers but the repair option tells me the disk doesn't have anything (the drivers are a .exe file).
any help would be appreciated.
My Computer
System One
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- CPU
- AMD ATHLON X2, 2.8 GHz
- Motherboard
- ASUS M3N78-EM
- Memory
- 4 G DDR2
- Graphics Card(s)
- Radion XFXforce 1G