Windows 10: The boot loader keeps going back to volume 0 when windows 10 is installed on volume 3 I...

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MBR of RAID volume overwritten, OS fails to boot. Help.

I've screwed up, big time.

My machine has a RAID 0 of two 500GB drives. The resulting volume stores my Windows XP installation. Its contents are vital. I installed an additional 80GB IDE HDD to install Kubuntu. During Kubuntu's setup, those 500GB drives were displayed as is, and not as the resulting volume. I was able to make sure the right drive (hdc, that 80 GB HDD) was partitioned and formatted, but the grand screwup came where in the "finalise" step, you have to specify where the boot-loader has to be installed. This option was hidden in a seperate dialog that comes up on clicking an "advanced" button somewhere. Well...the installer wrote the boot loader to (hda), the first member of the RAID 0 volume, when the installer doesn't recognise the volume itself and only its member disks.

Windows doesn't boot, neither does Kubuntu (shows Grub error 15). I need a way to recover data from the volume. I'm hoping the volume's contents are intact, though its MBR is gone. How do I boot Windows?

I can't use a WinXP boot floppy made from another system, since the boot floppy won't recognise a RAID volume. Should I boot the machine with the Windows XP install CD + AHCI driver floppy and install the OS without formatting the volume, so at least I could safely move my files to another drive even if the resulting OS is unstable? Ideas please.

 

Diskpart not locating volume with windows installed on it

Hello,

I have a desktop that is currently stuck in a Repair loop, and goes to BSOD. One thing I found is when I try to rebuild BCD it says Total identified Windows installations: 0.

Currently it appears Windows is installed on the X:\ drive of this computer, but when I check diskpart and list volumes it doesn't show X:\ and none of the volumes displayed have a system partition in them.

If anyone has any suggestions I would really appreciate it!

 

Unmountable boot volume


Well it took a long time to get to cmd and just as long try and upload a picture from my phone. You know when its just been one of those days?

Anyway, I've typed out the result below.

DISKPART > List disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt

Disk 0 Online 698 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Online 7651 MB 0 B *

DISKPART > select disk 0
Disk 0 is now selected.
DISKPART > list volume

Volume 0 E DVD ROM 0B No Media
Volume 1 C RAW Partition 698GB Healthy
Volume 2 Recovery NTFS Partition 450MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 3 FAT32 Partition 100MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 4 D ESD-ISO FAT32 Removable 7649MB Healthy

list part

Partition 1 Recovery 450MB 1024MB
Partition 2 System 100MB 451MB
Partition 3 Reserved 16MB 551MB
Partition 4 Primary 698GB 567MB

I will look into your post now, axe0