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I was running Windows 7 on a Raid 1+0 array. I needed to get something off an old hard drive (mysql databases, needed to boot the old os and export them as .sql's), so I booted into XP, and it didn't have a RAID driver installed.

 

For some reason, it screwed up the Windows 7 drive so it won't boot or repair. I installed the RAID driver on the XP computer and am now able to see the Windows 7 files, but I don't know how to get Windows 7 to boot. I tried the option to fix startup errors, and I don't want to system restore because it never worked in XP and i'm worried it screws up all my programs.

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You probably just messed up your boot records.  Check your boot.ini file in the root of the hard drive your bios tries to boot to first.  There's a CD you can get called 'ultimate boot cd' which has tons of useful tools, including some stuff that fixes boot issues quite well. 

I guess my problem is with my boot/bcd file. When I try and run the command line command to fix it, it says it can't find a version of windows, even though on the screen right before it, it has my version of Windows. I think the problem is with my RAID driver. I loaded the RAID drivers in the Windows repair screen and everything shows up, but I think there are certain repair tools that ignore them.

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