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AirWolf
27th April 2002, 05:14 PM
I thought I finally had this thing figured out....I had 1 HD w/ XP on the regular IDE controller. Then on the raid controller I had 1 HD on the primary channel and my raid array on the secondary.

It was all working fine. And then I pulled the single HD off the primary channel on the raid controller...I was just pulling data off it before it goes into another machine. Now booting up takes about 10 minutes (I'm not kidding). Even when XP finally loads it is really slow to do anything. I went into Windows Explorer and although the raid array is listed, I can't access any of the data.
The computer is almost unusable in its current state so its really tough to troubleshoot.

Any ideas? I moved all my data to the raid array and I really don't want to lose it.

-Thanks
jozzer
27th April 2002, 07:36 PM
Hi.Recently suffered the same problem....I found holding F8 at startup and selecting "last known good configuration" fixed it up!
AirWolf
27th April 2002, 10:31 PM
Just tried...didn't help. I also tried booting into safe mode, it seems to stop up on loading a file called Mup.sys, any idea what this is?
Player0
27th April 2002, 11:15 PM
multi user profile i think.

Maybe one of your profiles got corrupt?
AirWolf
27th April 2002, 11:18 PM
How would I fix that?
AirWolf
27th April 2002, 11:35 PM
Finally got into disk management (after about 30 minutes)...my raid array is recognized, but there is no file system listed for it....my other drive is listed as NTFS. Any ideas...would any other info help anyone come up with a solution? I really don't want to lose the 80+GB of data I have on this array.

Thanks
AirWolf
28th April 2002, 04:08 PM
Tried replacing and then removing the other drive, no dice. Would I get some sort of message if I had a broken stripe, should I try to work through some kind of raid repair utility? I've never seen behavior like this (slow...boot up is actually around 15 minutes and there is about a 3-5 minute delay on anything I do (click start and 3 minutes later the menu comes up))...so I'm at a complete loss. Would anything besides the HD cause this? I would just tear out the array and try it without that, but I'm scared of losing all the data...would unplugging the array and booting without it have any negative consequences?
AirWolf
29th April 2002, 07:41 PM
Well, I removed the array, and the computer works great without it.
Does anyone have any idea how or what I can do to fix this thing?