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Thank you! great point. But I don't understand what you mean about the low-end raid... <br />
&gt;&gt;where the work is actually done with device drivers.....<br />
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The high end raid also needs me to load driver when installing windows or by using the HP smart CD....<br />
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&gt;&gt;boot the recovery CD and see if it &quot;sees&quot; the C drive and your files, or if it complains about missing a driver<br />
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Not sure what you mean here.... if I try to run the repair, I don't think there is an option to see the files, it just shows the os and ask me if I want to repair it... I remember if I didn't load the raid driver in the beginning, it will say something like disk not found....
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Thank you! great point. But I don't understand what you mean about the low-end raid...
>>where the work is actually done with device drivers.....

The high end raid also needs me to load driver when installing windows or by using the HP smart CD....

>>boot the recovery CD and see if it "sees" the C drive and your files, or if it complains about missing a driver

Not sure what you mean here.... if I try to run the repair, I don't think there is an option to see the files, it just shows the os and ask me if I want to repair it... I remember if I didn't load the raid driver in the beginning, it will say something like disk not found....

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I had a similar problem before but I don't remember what exactly was the issue. So if the window server crashed on a hardware raid 5, is it possible to repair? For example, with desktop pc (with single hard drive) when the windows crashed, I was always able to put in the windows xp cd and run the windows repair. Just wondering if I can also do this on hardware raid, if so, what's the procedure?
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I had a similar problem before but I don't remember what exactly was the issue. So if the window server crashed on a hardware raid 5, is it possible to repair? For example, with desktop pc (with single hard drive) when the windows crashed, I was always able to put in the windows xp cd and run the windows repair. Just wondering if I can also do this on hardware raid, if so, what's the procedure?

windows server crashed on Raid-5

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