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sillyputty
I had a new system (asus P6T deluxe mb, Intel i7 940, 2 seagate
barracuda 500gb HDs in RAID 0, 3g DDR3 ram) where at least one HD and
the MB died. Unfortunately, I read after-the-fact that the seagate HDs
I got were prone to fail. I ordered another mobo (gigabyte), but when
I tried to reformat the remaining HD I'd get a BIOS error 'missing
operating system,' with the Vista DVD in the drive and set as primary
boot. Some research pointed to a corrupted MBR.
So I ordered another seagate 1T HD and Vista re-installed fine.
However when I tried to reformat the remaining 500g HD it got right to
the end and said 'cannot format.' When I opened computer management
\storage\disk management in control panel the HD is displayed as:
simple, basic, RAW and status as 'healthy (Active, Primary
Partition).' Is the drive savable? Thx.
barracuda 500gb HDs in RAID 0, 3g DDR3 ram) where at least one HD and
the MB died. Unfortunately, I read after-the-fact that the seagate HDs
I got were prone to fail. I ordered another mobo (gigabyte), but when
I tried to reformat the remaining HD I'd get a BIOS error 'missing
operating system,' with the Vista DVD in the drive and set as primary
boot. Some research pointed to a corrupted MBR.
So I ordered another seagate 1T HD and Vista re-installed fine.
However when I tried to reformat the remaining 500g HD it got right to
the end and said 'cannot format.' When I opened computer management
\storage\disk management in control panel the HD is displayed as:
simple, basic, RAW and status as 'healthy (Active, Primary
Partition).' Is the drive savable? Thx.