Removing Raid0 Setup - Regular Installation
Oct 5, 2010
Trying to remove my raid0 install and restore windows to a regular installation.
I deleted my array but my boot menu is not picking up either of my hard drives, however they are still showing up in my raid config window.Its been a while since I've done this but I don't recall any hardware alterations being necessary to switch back.Im obviously missing something, can anyone point me in the right direction? as it stands when I try to install xp now it is giving me a blue screen with 7b error
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here is image of error message.
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http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?i...9005582dv8.jpg
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