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Need HELP removing RAID 0 and converting back to

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SBMongoos

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seperate discs. (I meant RAID 1)

My system was setup with two identical hard drives. What I did was parition them so both had C: and D:. Set to Mirror. I've been wondering sometime now if using Mirroring has created latency. Based on the system I feel it should perform better and decided this was overkill. So, I did a Ghost of both partitions. Then deleted the RAID Array. However, I'm having trouble getting the system back up an running.

My intent now is to use one physical disc as C: and the other as D:. I thought I could simply restore the Ghost image of partition C: to the 'C drive HDD' and restore the Ghost partition image to drive D: So instead of partitioning the discs and mirroring them I run them seperately with a drive letter assigned to each.

However, I'm having trouble. When first restoring from the Ghost boot disc and then rebooting I rec'd a message stating that Windows couldn't load due to a missing HAL.DLL file. I'm concerned that there may be more of this.

Anyway....should I have deleted the disc array first and then did a Ghost of each partition, format the discs and then do the Ghost restore or ?

Stuck and my system is down. This is my business desktop and I thought I'd have it back up and running by now.

Thanks...
 
Not really sure. Sounds like Ghost is doing it's job and not spitting out any errors.

Did you change the location of the disks relative to the motherboard; e.g. moved from RAID controller (or even changed RAID to non-RAID) to onboard ATA?

If you did this, what you'll need to do is put the primary disk back in the RAID array either with or without the secondary drive (sounds like this is all ready the case) then restore the ghost image to the primary, both partitions. In essence, put everything back the way it was. Even then, the system should have had the onboard controller drivers installed, but it probably doesn't like changing up the system disk, no sir. ;)

Ideally, you should have backed everything up before touching the disks, broke the array, formatted, then reinstalled.
 
No....I have changed any cabling or anything. They are still physically connected the way they were.

I've tried doing a few thins at the repair console as I was not given the option to Repair at the install menu. Thought this would be easy.

I did ghost the partitions before breaking the array. I have not made any changes with the discs whatsoever. I've thought about reloading after repartitioning to get back where I was but it seems something is screwy with the ghost image and figured it wouldn't do any good.
 
SBMongoos said:
No....I have changed any cabling or anything. They are still physically connected the way they were.

I've tried doing a few thins at the repair console as I was not given the option to Repair at the install menu. Thought this would be easy.

I did ghost the partitions before breaking the array. I have not made any changes with the discs whatsoever. I've thought about reloading after repartitioning to get back where I was but it seems something is screwy with the ghost image and figured it wouldn't do any good.
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Just do a fast repair, don't dive into the console.

If that doesn't work, I would recommend a reinstall. Just keep one of your disks without nuking it so that you don't have to load up Ghost again to get your files.
 
Man.... I've done this type of thing so many time and it never ceases to amaze me with the problems that can come up. I decided to load Windows as a fresh install. Now after installing a printer I was already using before I'm getting Windows errors that run in a loop and I cannot even use the system.

I did the Ghost backup within Windows. It's Ghost v9. I thought it got a copy of all files and figured it had it's own open file manager. After reloading the Ghost image from booting up off the Ghost disk it said that HAL.DLL was missing. Since the drives were originally mirrored I didn't know if this file didn't get copied or if just didn't make it onto the backup. Amazing how time consuming this stuff can be. Anyway, I wondering if it's worth another shot at trying to restore the Ghost backup. The DOS versions always seem to work fine. This is the first time I've attempted a restore from doing a disc backup in Windows. It would save me a lot of time.

I'm not able to find the repair option. It's not offered. I don't know if the Windows boot disc doesn't see the Windows install or what. I'm only offered to go to the console or choose which disc to remove partions or add partitions and then install.

Arrrgh...
 
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