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OK guys I've brought this on myself but now am stuck as to what to do.

This is the situation. This system was put together for my and all the
major drives including the C drive are SCSI. The installer later added
a couple of SATA drive for a RAID 0. After this the boot up was always
unusual in that it took a couple of minutes to get to a screen where you
could elect to access set-up, or hit enter to continue, then a screen
saying hit any key to continue.

This evening I wanted to clear the two RAID drives and use them
elsewhere so I deleted the partition on them and took them out. Now
I'm having the problem and of course putting them back in is no help <G>
Please how do I get out of the brown stuff.

Many thanks

Richard

PS I'm not that technically brilliant with the finer details of this
sort of thing so please can you keep it as simple as possible!


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Richard,
Start by booting from the XP Pro x64 install CD and choose the repair option.
Carlos

"Richard" wrote:

> OK guys I've brought this on myself but now am stuck as to what to do.
>
> This is the situation. This system was put together for my and all the
> major drives including the C drive are SCSI. The installer later added
> a couple of SATA drive for a RAID 0. After this the boot up was always
> unusual in that it took a couple of minutes to get to a screen where you
> could elect to access set-up, or hit enter to continue, then a screen
> saying hit any key to continue.
>
> This evening I wanted to clear the two RAID drives and use them
> elsewhere so I deleted the partition on them and took them out. Now
> I'm having the problem and of course putting them back in is no help <G>
> Please how do I get out of the brown stuff.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Richard
>
> PS I'm not that technically brilliant with the finer details of this
> sort of thing so please can you keep it as simple as possible!
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> .
>

What you want to do is called a "repair install". If you google or bing
"repair install XP" you'll find the first hit is Michael Steven's excellent
site: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Follow the instructions there to do a repair install and you should be back
up and running.

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Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel




"Richard" <> wrote in message
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> OK guys I've brought this on myself but now am stuck as to what to do.
>
> This is the situation. This system was put together for my and all the
> major drives including the C drive are SCSI. The installer later added a
> couple of SATA drive for a RAID 0. After this the boot up was always
> unusual in that it took a couple of minutes to get to a screen where you
> could elect to access set-up, or hit enter to continue, then a screen
> saying hit any key to continue.
>
> This evening I wanted to clear the two RAID drives and use them elsewhere
> so I deleted the partition on them and took them out. Now I'm having the
> problem and of course putting them back in is no help <G> Please how do I
> get out of the brown stuff.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Richard
>
> PS I'm not that technically brilliant with the finer details of this sort
> of thing so please can you keep it as simple as possible!
>
>
> --
>
>
>

In his posting of Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Charlie Russel - MVP writes
>What you want to do is called a "repair install". If you google or bing
>"repair install XP" you'll find the first hit is Michael Steven's
>excellent site: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
>
>Follow the instructions there to do a repair install and you should be
>back up and running.
>

Many thanks guys...all up and running again thank goodness!

Cheers

Richard
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Glad we could help. And that you're back up!

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Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel




"Richard" <> wrote in message
news:...
> In his posting of Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Charlie Russel - MVP writes
>>What you want to do is called a "repair install". If you google or bing
>>"repair install XP" you'll find the first hit is Michael Steven's
>>excellent site: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
>>
>>Follow the instructions there to do a repair install and you should be
>>back up and running.
>>
>
> Many thanks guys...all up and running again thank goodness!
>
> Cheers
>
> Richard
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