Guest lost in the woods Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 One of my intel 865perl motherboard's sata connectors broke. My sata drives connected as a Raid array - Consequently system will not boot - I do not have Windows XP disk or back up - I do not know how to move (Ghost does not work for this) the information on the drives to another single sata or ide drive etc. Any ideas at how to get the information off the disk drive and/or reuse this system without re-buying windows - office etc.
Guest Terry R. Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: hardware problems On 7/11/2007 7:06 PM On a whim, lost in the woods pounded out on the keyboard > One of my intel 865perl motherboard's sata connectors broke. My sata drives > connected as a Raid array - Consequently system will not boot - I do not have > Windows XP disk or back up - I do not know how to move (Ghost does not work > for this) the information on the drives to another single sata or ide drive > etc. Any ideas at how to get the information off the disk drive and/or reuse > this system without re-buying windows - office etc. Purchase a raid sata card. Never performed the task but it should. And probably the least expensive method. -- Terry R. ***Reply Note*** Anti-spam measures are included in my email address. Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.
Guest C J. Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: hardware problems Is the problem with the cable connector in the back of your harddrive... or a sata cable connector on the motherboard that is broken? If the Sata connector port on the motherboard is broken, then you should see about getting a replacement intel 865perl motherboard. If that is not an option, another workaround could be had if you have an open card slot on the motherboard itself...you could install an aftermarket sata drive controller card in - and then plug your drive into that with a sata cable. The system should boot again. lost in the woods <lostinthewoods@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > One of my intel 865perl motherboard's sata connectors broke. My sata > drives connected as a Raid array - Consequently system will not boot - I > do not have Windows XP disk or back up - I do not know how to move (Ghost > does not work for this) the information on the drives to another single > sata or ide drive etc. Any ideas at how to get the information off the > disk drive and/or reuse this system without re-buying windows - office > etc.
Guest lost in the woods Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 RE: hardware problems aftermarket card does not allow starting as zero stripe raid drives during booting - unless i am missing something - any ideas where to get an old 865perl board? or are there any other thoughts on this - please "lost in the woods" wrote: > One of my intel 865perl motherboard's sata connectors broke. My sata drives > connected as a Raid array - Consequently system will not boot - I do not have > Windows XP disk or back up - I do not know how to move (Ghost does not work > for this) the information on the drives to another single sata or ide drive > etc. Any ideas at how to get the information off the disk drive and/or reuse > this system without re-buying windows - office etc.
Guest lost in the woods Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: hardware problems Terry - I purchased a sata controller card - but it was not recognized prior to boot so the system would not boot - is there such a thing as a sata raid controller that the system would recognize and try to boot from as the original setup XP had to have software loaded to make it a raid system before XP was copied to the hard drives "Terry R." wrote: > On 7/11/2007 7:06 PM On a whim, lost in the woods pounded out on the > keyboard > > > One of my intel 865perl motherboard's sata connectors broke. My sata drives > > connected as a Raid array - Consequently system will not boot - I do not have > > Windows XP disk or back up - I do not know how to move (Ghost does not work > > for this) the information on the drives to another single sata or ide drive > > etc. Any ideas at how to get the information off the disk drive and/or reuse > > this system without re-buying windows - office etc. > > Purchase a raid sata card. Never performed the task but it should. And > probably the least expensive method. > > -- > Terry R. > > ***Reply Note*** > Anti-spam measures are included in my email address. > Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply. >
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