Operative system not found

I got my self an xi1546 on friday 13th 2007.

Specs: core 2 duo t7200 2.0 ghz 4 mb cache
ati x1800 mobility 256mb ddr3
240 gb harddisk 120x2. raid 1 5400 rpm serial-ata 150
media center edition
2 gb ram


Perfect laptop, fast as ligthning. I wanted to be faster by switching to raid 0 on via raid tool. Under the process I got an error about stripe array or something, later it wanted me to restart the pc, I did that.

After booting it upp I got an message on ms dos, "operatvie system not found"

I tried to boot with xp and vista cd, and pushed f6 to install the sata, raid drivers. It could not find any save storage, it means it could't find any harddisk .

I used a program called partion recovery and booted upp with that program. It scanned my harddrive and after a whileit found all the programs and files. everything was there. But still I am getting "operative system not found"

In bios it find the two harddrives. I also used an external floppy drive and tried to boot upp with the disk, no chance.

Any ideas, I find it very anjoying that the pc would come upp with such thing after i used it after 4-5 hours. There is nothing wrong with the pc it self, I ran via raid tool and I screwed it upp. But I have a guarantee on 2 years.

Please help me!

 

OK. So you switched the drive array from mirroring to striping. Have you tried switching it back to RAID 1 to see if one of your mirrors might still be intact? If not, then you have to download the Via RAID driver to a floppy disk, attach the floppy drive to your laptop, boot from the XP CD, press F6 when it prompts to, load the driver from the floppy, and reinstall your operating system.

 

I can not find the raid driver . Could you give me an direct link to the drivers web page.
There are no floppy drive files at site, the installation pack are all over 5 mb.
thank you!

 

Here's the downloads page.

http://support.fujitsu-siemens.com/com/support/downloads.html

Choose Notebooks
Choose AMILO
Choose AMILO Xi Series
Choose AMILO Xi 1546

Choose SATA RAID (on board) and Select all
Click arrow right of Go
Click VIA VT6421 RAID Controller
Click box left of I accept the license conditions
Click Download software
Click Save ; Save to someplace you know where it is located
Unzip the file once it's downloaded.
Put the files in the directory VIARaidV510A\drvdisk\i386\NT5 onto your floppy disk.

 

Thanks after a while I got insert the disk with via raid combo driver

? Little help please

 

You're going to have to burn onto a CD or put onto an USB drive all the files from that ZIP file you downloaded.

 

I searched many forums an came upp to that if I want to install those drivers, I will need to owen a toshiba or an fujitsu siemens floppy drive, they seem to been configured that way.