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So I have been having a few issues with my computer recently until it finally seems to have died the other day, though I'm not sure if its actually dead or not. My computer can turn on, it posts, it can go to the BIOS, it can go to the operating system selection screen, yet when it starts to load windows, it just crashed immediately and reboots. A little blue screen shows up for half a second too. Prior to its death, I did some memory tests because I thought that was the issue and no matter what stick of ram or configuration I have in, it kept saying I have a memory problem. Now my concern is that the damage lies somewhere in the hard drives, yet I'm not so certain. I had my hard drives in RAID 1 for security, so all the data was the same on both. I noticed, when booting, that my RAID setup profile no longer shows like it used to. Whenever I would boot, this little BIOS-like screen would show up for a second, indicate my RAID array was present, and then continue to boot. Now it no longer shows up. I reasoned that if the data was the same on both and one of the hard drives had finally croaked, at least one of them should still be good right? Well... Not quite. I took out one hard drive and booted it that way only for it to start loading windows but claim that I hadn't installed it. I loaded the other hard drive and that started to boot windows, but then it blue screened at the beginning like it had before when both drives are in. I'm at a loss. Any suggestions or is it just dead?

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just a suggestion, turn off your raid, wipe drives, install new OS on smallest drive on its own, and install programs, and everything else on other hard drive. sounds like you corrupted your operating system, if you have the windows DVD then insert it and run a OS restore/repair

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3 minutes ago, FlugleWaffle said:

So I have been having a few issues with my computer recently until it finally seems to have died the other day, though I'm not sure if its actually dead or not. My computer can turn on, it posts, it can go to the BIOS, it can go to the operating system selection screen, yet when it starts to load windows, it just crashed immediately and reboots. A little blue screen shows up for half a second too. Prior to its death, I did some memory tests because I thought that was the issue and no matter what stick of ram or configuration I have in, it kept saying I have a memory problem. Now my concern is that the damage lies somewhere in the hard drives, yet I'm not so certain. I had my hard drives in RAID 1 for security, so all the data was the same on both. I noticed, when booting, that my RAID setup profile no longer shows like it used to. Whenever I would boot, this little BIOS-like screen would show up for a second, indicate my RAID array was present, and then continue to boot. Now it no longer shows up. I reasoned that if the data was the same on both and one of the hard drives had finally croaked, at least one of them should still be good right? Well... Not quite. I took out one hard drive and booted it that way only for it to start loading windows but claim that I hadn't installed it. I loaded the other hard drive and that started to boot windows, but then it blue screened at the beginning like it had before when both drives are in. I'm at a loss. Any suggestions or is it just dead?

try booting from a usb or anther drive and see if the files are on the previously raid drive and if not just try to recover the data you can onto a thumb drive and reinstall the os.  

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3 minutes ago, Kolden said:

just a suggestion, turn off your raid, wipe drives, install new OS on smallest drive on its own, and install programs, and everything else on other hard drive. sounds like you corrupted your operating system, if you have the windows DVD then insert it and run a OS restore/repair

I would ideally like to not lose the content on the hard drives.

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2 minutes ago, RedWulf said:

try booting from a usb or anther drive and see if the files are on the previously raid drive and if not just try to recover the data you can onto a thumb drive and reinstall the os. 

Not quite sure how to boot from a USB.

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then i would recommend just running the repair option with the windows disc, if you have another computer you can also plug your drives into it temporarily to verify the data is still there extract the data onto that PC and reinstall windows, and transfer the data. 

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1 minute ago, FlugleWaffle said:

Not quite sure how to boot from a USB.

Download the os iso file (windows, linux is open source, or a recovery option like ultimate repair disc). Use yumi or another program to create a bootabe usb drive. or do as @Kolden suggested  

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Just now, RedWulf said:

Download the os iso file (windows, linux is open source, or a recovery option like ultimate repair disc). Use yumi or another program to create a bootabe usb drive. or do as @Kolden suggested 

if your not extremely technically inclined, i wouldnt go through the trouble of a USB booted operating system, i would just take your drives out and put them into another tower, if they are still operating they will show up as extra drives (install with the computer off then turn on) then you can pull your data off, and reinstall without raid option. 

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Raid 1 only protects you from hardware failure, not software as the back up is a perfect copy. So if one has a virus then so does the other.

 

Now if only one drive has failed then you can just plug the other drive directly into the motherboard and off you go. No raid needed.

If it works then get a new drive to replace the other, make it the slave in the raid, the old one with the working OS as master and wait for it to clone the drive.

I don't know if you can use the computer while it's rebuilding.

It's not a race to the bottom.

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