Failed RAID Mirror, Both Drives Failed
May 23, 2008
I am running Vista on a Dell XPS 420. I came home to find both drives failed in a RAID 1 mirror. Dell gave me no help recovering data, but did send two new drives. I have installed Vista on one of the new drives without RAID. I wanted to see if I could recover any files from the failed drives, but I can't seem to get Vista to recognize either of the old drives that were in the failed RAID array. The failed drive does appear during boot up and still shows as part of a failed array. How can I get Vista to recognize the failed drive so that I can then attempt to run file recovery software on it?
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Jun 3, 2008
First, my appologies: I tried a HW group first with this question with no response. I know some folks here are knowledable about Promise RAID. I should have x-posted instead of multi-posting, but I thought I'd get an answer in the other group.Anyway...I have a mirrored setup on a Promise RAID built-in controller. One disk wentbad. I removed it. The remaining disk continues to operate normally - fornow. However, I get a "critical" warning from the RAID controller every time I boot - but it does succeed without issues.
I would like to eliminate this warning and continue with only one disk.Preferably in a single-disk non-RAID config. But, whatever.How can I do that? Do I have to rebuild from scratch? What happens if I use [ctrl-F] to enter the RAID management and simply "delete the array"? Will I be able to reconfigure to boot from that remaining disk or will it require to be rebuilt completely as a single IDE?
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Apr 28, 2008
I have my old XP load on my C drive and Vista on the D drive. I'm ready to wipe out XP (I know lots of folks would go the other way) so I can create a mirror copy of Vista for fault tolerance. Before I enable RAID in the firmware, I'm thinking I need to format the C drive. However the Disk Management utility has the format command grayed out for the C drive. It shows up as:
Disk 0: C: NTFS, Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)
My D drive is: Disk 2: D: NTFS, Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary
Partition)
What is the proper way to wipe out C so I can create my RAID mirror?
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I'm trying to update Vista Home Premium, on a laptop I have just purchased.
Everything seems to have gone fine, apart from several updates which have failed.
Some of the failed updates are:
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Update for Windows Live Sign-In Assistant (KB967912)
Security Update For Windows Vista (KB967723)
Security Update For Windows Vista (KB970710)
In total there are 43 failed updates, the majority of which are listed as "Important". So, my question is how do I get these installed? I've followed the troubleshooting tips but can't find any help here. I've searched online, but nothing seems to help here either.
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Mar 23, 2008
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I upgraded to IE8 yesterday, and have experienced this problem since then. I was previously able to open the attachments, but now I am getting the error message, Command failed to execute.
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Mar 26, 2008
Self explanatory. So bad I couldn't even boot in safe mode, or use the ACER recovery feature. It also destroyed every restore point, so no going back. Now I have no OS on my laptop and have to pay for a "Recovery disk" because Microsuck is too gutless to actually allow companies (like ACER) to send a physical Vista install disk with their computers. Needless to say I'm a little steamed.
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Mar 22, 2009
I'm having a difficult problem to deal with.
A few days ago I rebooted my PC after the latest updates. I'm not saying this is the cause just giving a time frame.
Everything boots up fine till it get's to the welcome screen...then a pop up with the following message:
Userinit.exe failed to initialize (0x0000006)
Ctrl-Alt-Del works and allows me to reboot..in which the process repeats it's self...if I am lucky it boots up fine but the system is pretty sluggish, which suggest a virus of some kind but a Google search to fix this problem seems to offer as many fixes as possibilities and not many are successful.
Things I have tried:
Disk scan = No errors
Restore point= Doesn't fix it
Avast Virus scan= revealed a Trojan and it placed kernel32.dll & wsock32.dll. I deleted the trojan. I still have the other two files in the chest.
There's a few other things I could try like a Windows repair but I want to hopefully try other things before I take that step.
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Mar 21, 2009
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Mar 23, 2008
Self explanatory. So bad I couldn't even boot in safe mode, or use the ACER recovery feature. It also destroyed every restore point, so no going back. Now I have no OS on my laptop and have to pay for a "Recovery disk" because Microsuck is too gutless to actually allow companies (like ACER) to send a physical Vista install disk with their computers.
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