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>I have a ASUS P4P800-E motherboard with a Promise Raid controller and uses
>the Promise FastTrack 378 driver. My OS resides on my C drive and I back up
>to my D drive. My D drive is actually two hard drives running RAID 0 on the
>Promise Raid controller. My C drive went bad and I replaced it and
>installed a fresh copy of Windows XP Pro. Everything went well except now I
>can't access any of the data on the D drive. The bios sees the array and
>indicates it is functional. Windows sees the D drive but says it needs to
>be formated. Is there anything I can do to get access to the data. Please
>help.
 
You have to "take ownership" of the drive. Google for that phrase ands
include XP.


"Charlie" <Charlie@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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| >I have a ASUS P4P800-E motherboard with a Promise Raid controller and
uses
| >the Promise FastTrack 378 driver. My OS resides on my C drive and I back
up
| >to my D drive. My D drive is actually two hard drives running RAID 0 on
the
| >Promise Raid controller. My C drive went bad and I replaced it and
| >installed a fresh copy of Windows XP Pro. Everything went well except now
I
| >can't access any of the data on the D drive. The bios sees the array and
| >indicates it is functional. Windows sees the D drive but says it needs
to
| >be formated. Is there anything I can do to get access to the data. Please
| >help.
|
|
 
Hello,

If it requires ownership, the error message would be "Access denied" rather
than "Windows needs to format.."

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"Jim Macklin" <p51mustang[threeX12]@xxxhotmail.calm> wrote in message
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> You have to "take ownership" of the drive. Google for that phrase ands
> include XP.
>
>
> "Charlie" <Charlie@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:O4vBny5MIHA.5264@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> | >I have a ASUS P4P800-E motherboard with a Promise Raid controller and
> uses
> | >the Promise FastTrack 378 driver. My OS resides on my C drive and I
> back
> up
> | >to my D drive. My D drive is actually two hard drives running RAID 0 on
> the
> | >Promise Raid controller. My C drive went bad and I replaced it and
> | >installed a fresh copy of Windows XP Pro. Everything went well except
> now
> I
> | >can't access any of the data on the D drive. The bios sees the array
> and
> | >indicates it is functional. Windows sees the D drive but says it needs
> to
> | >be formated. Is there anything I can do to get access to the data.
> Please
> | >help.
> |
> |
>
>
 
In Disk Management, for the problem HD, does a rt click give any other
options other than format?

"Charlie" <Charlie@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> >I have a ASUS P4P800-E motherboard with a Promise Raid controller and
> >uses
>>the Promise FastTrack 378 driver. My OS resides on my C drive and I back
>>up
>>to my D drive. My D drive is actually two hard drives running RAID 0 on
>>the
>>Promise Raid controller. My C drive went bad and I replaced it and
>>installed a fresh copy of Windows XP Pro. Everything went well except now
>>I
>>can't access any of the data on the D drive. The bios sees the array and
>>indicates it is functional. Windows sees the D drive but says it needs to
>>be formated. Is there anything I can do to get access to the data. Please
>>help.
>
>
 
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