Moved (2) Raid 0 Laptop Drives to different laptop. Blue Screen. Fix?

[loavesfishescomp]

Moved (2) Raid 0 SATA Laptop Drives to a different laptop. Blue Screen. Repair?

Moved (2) laptop hard drives (sata) from an HP to a (3 year old) Sony Vaio PCG-8X2L-- both setup in a RAID 0 configuration. I don't know how to do a windows repair on this situation. I'm getting the blue screen and restart cycle.

I swear the slipstream XP Pro cd I made has SATA drivers, but when booting off it, it says there are no Hard Drives. This has something to do with a raid controller I'd imagine, but in BIOS there are no options to change the RAID settings (to auto detect?).

What shall I do in this situation?

 

[DarDar]

Yup. You need to have the same raid chipset for it to make sense of the array. The raid on the new system won't be able to see the drives as it doesn't know how to interpret them. You should notice that they will appear in the bios itself though. You could try the ctrl + i (for intel. n for nvidia etc) after the bios to be able to get into the raid configuration. It may be able to make sense of the setup in there.

 

[onetech4all]

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Raid 0 is always tricky!
Before the move, just to be on the safe side, I would do a clone of the hard drives to 1 hard drive.
The problem could be that the RAID controller doesn't see the new hard drives and if you are to start with a new Raid configuration, it will delete all the data and I think that's alright, as long as you have a solid backup.
You can start a new RAID configuration and clone (from the backup) onto the RAID 0 hard drive; now they are seen as one anyways, by the OS.
Make sure you have a good image or clone first, whichever you want to use.

 

[MobileTechie]

Yup. You need to have the same raid chipset for it to make sense of the array. The raid on the new system won't be able to see the drives as it doesn't know how to interpret them.

I didn't know that.

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[loavesfishescomp]

I love this site.
I will move the drives back to the original machine. I do not want to loose any data by alterng settings I am not comfy with.

Here's the dellema: the HP the drives came out of has a bad graphics chip-- therefore, i can't see anything on the onboard monitor or an external.
Only option I know of is to send it in to have the mobo replaced.
I did think about blindl running ghost but I'm not that good or comfortible with the idea.
Cheers

 

[loavesfishescomp]

Then how do I install XP on this Sony on 1 hard drive if the raid controller is "on"? Vista installed fine... I asume on startup, I press the f6 (?) key to install a raid controller, or maybe it can be just shut it off by pressing the key combination above? Will post back.

 

[onetech4all]

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Well, you didn't say you had a display problem.
See if your HP is recalled by HP and maybe you can get your mobo replaced the free, if not, well, that's more complicated and you might mess things up by losing your data, if you were to move the hard drives. Is there any way you can access this computer. Turn it on and see if you can see it on the network, see if you can access it through remote desktop.
Let me know!

 

[onetech4all]

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Well, yes, you need to install the drivers for the RAID.
You would run a repair and at repair time, if I remember right, you will have the option to press F6.
It's been a while since I had to do with something like this.

 

[vdub12]

Well, you didn't say you had a display problem.
See if your HP is recalled by HP and maybe you can get your mobo replaced the free, if not, well, that's more complicated and you might mess things up by losing your data, if you were to move the hard drives. Is there any way you can access this computer. Turn it on and see if you can see it on the network, see if you can access it through remote desktop.
Let me know!

Thats a good tip.

Hopefully you have rdc turned on.

If not I would back the old system up and load the new one fresh. If you have to, find out what brand raid controller the HP has and get a PCI raid controller of the same brand and set them up on a test system. Make sure your cluster size is the same or you could really mess things up. Once you get it booted on a test system (Make sure your booting on a separate drive and your raid array is a secondary) Once you get it booted up use Driveimage XML to image it and then you can access the image using UBC4WIN on the new system and restore your data.

I would never just pull a drive and make it boot on a different system, always reload the OS. Especially with a raid array, You might get lucky and get it to work but it will never be as reliable as it would be if you rebuilt and reloaded the array and restored your data.

 

[onetech4all]

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I read one about these hardware devices where you can connect a RAID setup and clone it. I don't remember the name. There were used by data recovery companies.

 

[vdub12]

I read one about these hardware devices where you can connect a RAID setup and clone it. I don't remember the name. There were used by data recovery companies.

That would be a great tool. Honestly as long as you used the correct cluster size I don't see why any controller would not do the job.

 

[MobileTechie]

I was just listening to a Scott Moulton podcast and it would seem that it is not true that you need the same controller.

He was also talking about how R-Studio will reconstruct and clone RAID arrays.

 

[loavesfishescomp]

All great information, but I'm not going to mess with it. I'm too afraid I'll mess up the data, so I will remove the hard drives, send in the laptop to HP, and hope the MOBO they put in will allow the drives to boot when it arrives back from repair. HP didn't have a recall on these DV9000, even-though almost everyone knows that the chip de-solders itself.

I don't see how I can remote desktop into a computer that has no display... I don't know enough about RD to do this. But I'm gonna google it.

Cheers.

 

[vdub12]

I was just listening to a Scott Moulton podcast and it would seem that it is not true that you need the same controller.

He was also talking about how R-Studio will reconstruct and clone RAID arrays.

I agree, I don't think you would need the same brand controller ether. I was just thinking from a standpoint of likely hood of working. You do need the same cluster size and what if one controller has a 64k cluster and the other has a 64.5 cluster size. That could mess some stuff up.

All great information, but I'm not going to mess with it. I'm too afraid I'll mess up the data, so I will remove the hard drives, send in the laptop to HP, and hope the MOBO they put in will allow the drives to boot when it arrives back from repair. HP didn't have a recall on these DV9000, even-though almost everyone knows that the chip de-solders itself.

I don't see how I can remote desktop into a computer that has no display... I don't know enough about RD to do this. But I'm gonna google it.

Cheers.

Just run your rdp client and try and login to the notebooks ip address. If it works it will let you login. However, you need to have rdp turned on. By default XP disables it. If you enabled it then you might be in business.

 

[msherman]

You dont practice blindfolded PC repair?

It is the only way to truly become one with your PC.