Repair Install

If you're having problems with the old install and can't repair, you could always do another install to a temp directory, e.g. WIN.  Assuming you don't have password protection on, you should be able to access all your documents etc. and back up.  My preferred option then is to do a clean install.

The alternative, if you have the luxury of a second machine with a large drive, is put your drive in as a slave, copy it to your other computer, then put it back in your machine.  Reformat, install, and do the same as above to get the files back on to it.

What exactly do you mean by "acting up"?  Perhaps it is something that could be fixed.  Could you be more specific... error messages etc?

Are you sure it is even seeing your SATA drive?

Oh yes, have you tried ignoring the bit about the RAID drivers and continued as normal?  It could be that as you have already installed windows, it has the drivers it needs.

hi guys , yeah the windows installer sees the 3 partitions on that SATA Raid disk, it just doesnt think that any of them contains a version of windows. I have lots of applications and stuff installed so i really want to repair rather than back up if possible...

Dave.

Have you tried going into the Repair Console (press R)?  Does that work?

Unless you describe the errors you encounter a little further, I'm afraid I'll have trouble assisting you further.

I can get into the recovery console and that recognises that there is a windows there "C:/windows" which is option 1 of 1. and I can log onto it with the administrators password.

This is the way you'll have to repair windows, then.

So, what errors do you get?   Are you able to boot into Windows?

no i get as far as the screen where theres a box in the middle of the screen saying "starting windows" and it freezes there, the same in safe mode.

Are you running any other drives (IDE perhaps) in the system?  If so, you might try disabling them (disconnect the ribbon cable and power)

I assume that the same thing happens if you try Last Good Configuration?

Go into the Repair Console, log into 1 as you said.  Type FIXBOOT

You can then reboot.  See if that helps.

I have tried that , it didn't work. Any other suggestions?

Try this:

Using the recovery console,

Attrib -H -R -S C:\boot.ini
DEL C:\boot.ini
    to delete the bad one
BootCfg  /Rebuild

to search for Windows installations and make a new one (Boot.ini file)

FE

hmm... do a logged boot, and when the computer crashes, go into the Recovery Console and open the log file.  See what it crashed on.

Hi, No still dont get the repair option...

You're going to have to do the repair manually.  A repair install only works if you have a repair disk

okay thats cool, how do i do that then?

If you are speaking of an ASR, this had to be created before the system crashed, and cannot be generated at this point..