Today I was plugging an old keyboard into my new PC while downloading drivers for said keyboard when I accidentally wiggled the power cord, causing the machine to lose power and shut down. Upon restarting, I was presented with System Revovery options. In the box where my OS should be, I see nothing. Windows tells me I need to install drivers for my hard disks but the internet tells me that there is no such thing. I'm about to insert my Gigabyte mobo disc and search for the RAID drivers since I have RAID set up for SRT SSD caching. Is this the right move or do you have another suggestion?
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Windows boot issue
Yes, the system does recognize my drives, but not Windows recovery.@jelekeloy said:
Right now I have nothing to restore Windows to, so can I just install again? Can I just put the Windows 7 disc back in and start up the computer as if I had never done anything or installed an OS?Did you try your motherboard drivers? You should probably make sure that the system is recognizing your drives before you do anything else, check the BIOS.
Is the bios set correctly for the boot order? If not, it won't boot.
Also maybe you snagged a wire out of the sata port or something for your hardrive.
Try to get to recovery, last known good setting if you can. Windows 7 backs up itself every now and then. There might be a button like esc or something for boot order and it might work, might not. Then again i'm not psychic, but those are some of the things I myself would do.
If all else fails, probally format, but I think it's the bios, it probally thought an overclocked failed and reset the bios, losing the boot order of your ssds.
What type of RAID array where you using? If it was RAID 0 you are hosed and should restore from a recent disk image or backup... you do make those right?
Were you doing a software raid setup or a hardware raid? if you did a hardware raid go into the raid bios and make sure it's working correctly. If you did a software raid it sounds like your screwed. But first, what I would do is download ubuntu and examine your hard drives to see if the data is intact. If your really lazy and your running vista or 7 you can use the windows disk to browse your file system easily from the recovery menu. If your using xp I hope you know your dos commands, because you can browse your hard drives that way.
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