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    Hard drive problem after my mistake.

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Kyoka Suigetsu, Jan 9, 2010.

  1. Kyoka Suigetsu

    Kyoka Suigetsu Notebook Consultant

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    Hello I have some trouble with my hard drive (2 SSD in raid 0)and right now I just couldn't boot windows.
    Yesterday I ran alienware respawn to restore completely my laptop. Once windows installed, I created a new partition with the tool in panel control. That's to say I split my 512 go in2 partition. One will run os programs and the other one will run games. I wanted to shut down machin. It didn't want. It froze at the shut down screen. So I turned off the machin and made the recovery once again. And when it booted windows this message displayed: one of your hard drive should be checked, windows/sysWOW64 is corrupt. Check the disk with Chkdsk.exe. I did it in windows it ran very quickly and shut down immediately.

    And now each time I ran windows the same error message displayed. So I want to disable raid 0 and make reinstall windows. But each time I arrived at the "select a partition for running os", I have only one ssd which is available. The other ssd is not visible in the window. And when I click on "next" it displayed no available partition or used partition found."

    so if someone could help me ease. Thank you very much.
     
  2. DR650SE

    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    It might just be finding the one SSD because that is the SSD that is in the primary slot. HDD0. Can you reinstall the OS to that disk, and then add drivers and such and it may find the other SSD.
     
  3. Kyoka Suigetsu

    Kyoka Suigetsu Notebook Consultant

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    Alright , but at the moment I cannot even reinstall windows. As I said, after changing to ahci legacy, each I boot from the install cd, when I should select a partition, the install cannot be continued
     
  4. AtolSammeek

    AtolSammeek Tokay Gecko

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    What you can do is take one hard drive out and install windows on the other hard drive. Then put the other hard drive which would make 2 partions.

    Not sure if SSD drive can be formatted. But I do know they CAN NOT be defraged.
     
  5. weinter

    weinter /dev/null

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    Still Seriously Defective :eek: :rolleyes: