Failure of 1 SSD in Raid-0 that was bootdrive stopping computer from booting

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I've spent 4+ hours searching this site and Google for someone to have/address my issue, and have had no luck so far, so I was wondering if someone could help me. Thank you!

My computer has 2 32 GB SSD's raided together (Raid-0; I know,I know, but I didn't build the computer myself), from which my computer boots. I have a 1TB regular Hard drive besides for that. I believe 1 of the 2 32GB SSD's failed, as my computer can only find one of them when it boots and I go to BIOS, and it can't load windows obviously. I attempted to hook up the SSD's to an external computer, and it could only read one of them (though it couldn;t actually read anything, but it did registed on the computer) while the other one didn't which leads me to beleive it had died.

I would like to relaoad windows onto the remaining good ssd drive, but I don;t know how to. I start the computer with only one connected, and it goes "scanning drives..." and then I get an 0xc000000e error. I have tried to go into the BIOS to change things, but nothing seems to help. I have tried to get access to the Raid by using Ctrl+I, but it just leads me to a "windows boot menu" which gives me the option of windows 7, which just leads to the same error as above, or a memory diagnostic, which leads to the error after running as well.

Anything you could tell me to help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

P.S. In the meantime, I'd love to be able to put windows onto my 1TB drive and just boot from there, so I can at least have a usable computer. Not sure how to do that though, as it doesn't even give me the option to load windows anytime.

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asked on Super User Feb 14, 2016 by M Newman

1 Answer

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Rebuild RAID

  1. This might Not be in your bios
  2. Try Ctrl S or F looks at menu for other shortcuts to access your RAID configuration
  3. Delete logical disc
  4. Create a new logical disc
  5. Boot again from Windows media and reinstall on new logical disc

Change boot order To fix the issue where it's not letting you boot from anything other than HDD go to bios and change boot order and maybe add a CD as bootable before HDD Assuming you have a bootable CD

You would have to reinstall the OS as part of the OS that was on failed disc is gone

answered on Super User Feb 14, 2016 by SeanClt • edited Feb 14, 2016 by SeanClt

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