Windows 7 - Doesn't boot after adding Mirroring in disk management

[markusgreen]

Hello

I have two WD Caviar black 1TB drives and recently made a software RAID1 by adding mirror through disk management on Windows 7 Ultimate.

All was fine and dandy until I tried to restart my computer and found that Windows 7 won't boot (stuck at the black screen with the flickering underscore).

My computer is the HP m9340f with the IPIBL-LB (Benicia)mobo. I've since removed the 2nd HDD in the mirror which does not solve the problem.

Help is much appreciated, thanks!

 

[bigdogchris]

You can not mirror (make dynamic) the active boot partition within Disk Management. You have to do via bios or raid card level. To fix this, boot to your Windows 7 disc and choose the advanced tools or whatever it's called and click repair start up issues.

 

[markusgreen]

Uh oh, is there some kind of fix to remove the mirror without nuking and reinstalling the system?

Next time, If I created a partition solely for the OS, could I make another partition from the same HDD and make this partition dynamic?

 

[markusgreen]

To fix this, boot to your Windows 7 disc and choose the advanced tools or whatever it's called and click repair start up issues.

Unfortunately this doesn't work. It says problem cannot be fixed.
I was hoping you can answer my question from the last post:

Next time, If I created a partition solely for the OS, could I make another partition from the same HDD and make this partition dynamic?