josefgabriel
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Hello. After recently losing the data on the hard drive my data was stored on I decided to go with a RAID 5 array. There are four SATA 500Gb disks plugged into an ASUS motherboard with an onboard NVIDIA RAID controller. I left my original XP installation alone on an IDE drive. I installed Win7 on the raid array. The first issue I ran into was that it appeared as multiple entries were showing on the choose OS screen. After reformatting and repartitioning the drives I could get Win7 to load and alleviated the multiple entries problem with EasyBCD.
Everything is working great now but with one caveat. If I don't have the installation DVD in the drive I get an error that tells me to insert the system disk and hit enter. If I insert the disk (or if the disk was in the drive when I booted) and ignore the "press any key to boot from CD" I will get the screen with the option to choose the OS. I have tried using the "repair" option with the Win7 installation disk but it always passes all of the tests (possibly because the disk is in the drive?)
I followed going through disk manager as suggested in the FAQ and I have three volumues:
C: (this is my RAID array with Win 7 on it) (boot, page file, crash dump, primary partition)
D: (this is my old IDE Drive with XP on it) (system, active, primary partition)
E: DVD Drive with installation DVD (healthy, primary partition)
I just tried making C an active partition and rebooted. (system is also tending to hang on trying to shut down). I then got an NTLDR file is missing. So I put the install disk back in and ran the repair again and it didn't find anything. Rebooted again and as long as that install disk is in and i ingore the boot to cd I get the menu to choose my OS and the rest goes fine. Any input or suggestion you might have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Everything is working great now but with one caveat. If I don't have the installation DVD in the drive I get an error that tells me to insert the system disk and hit enter. If I insert the disk (or if the disk was in the drive when I booted) and ignore the "press any key to boot from CD" I will get the screen with the option to choose the OS. I have tried using the "repair" option with the Win7 installation disk but it always passes all of the tests (possibly because the disk is in the drive?)
I followed going through disk manager as suggested in the FAQ and I have three volumues:
C: (this is my RAID array with Win 7 on it) (boot, page file, crash dump, primary partition)
D: (this is my old IDE Drive with XP on it) (system, active, primary partition)
E: DVD Drive with installation DVD (healthy, primary partition)
I just tried making C an active partition and rebooted. (system is also tending to hang on trying to shut down). I then got an NTLDR file is missing. So I put the install disk back in and ran the repair again and it didn't find anything. Rebooted again and as long as that install disk is in and i ingore the boot to cd I get the menu to choose my OS and the rest goes fine. Any input or suggestion you might have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!