!! PLEASE HELP ME!!

Okay, I have been beating my head against the wall for two days now, and I have been without my system for a week, so I'd really appreciate the help.


I built a system three days ago and everything was going perfectly had programs up and functioning great. I have two SATA hard drives in a RAID config. That is my main drive, that windows XP is operating on. I also installed a secondary HD from my old machine that has a lot of important files on it... i.e. all the music that I've made for the past year. I had everything perfect (All my drives recognized & programs running perfect.) until the unthinkable.

I tried to install Norton System Works of all programs and it crashed while setting up Norton GoBack. That made my system completely unable to boot. I tried everything I could think of, and finally gave up cleared my SATA RAID HD's and reinstalled Win XP. Here's the kicker, I can't get XP to recognize my Old HD anymore. It appears in the BIOS, and in the device manger (drivers should be fine). When I checked Disk Manager its been labelled Disk 0 with no path letter and no way to assign one. The only thing it will let me do is formatt the drive which is unacceptable because I need those files. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!

-Tiles:mad:

Was System Restore ever an option? Sounds like its gone now. So your system now as 2 SATA drives that are readable and bootable (one of them, that is) and a thirs drive that the system won't recognize. Is the 3rd drive a USB2.0 connected drive. I don't have a quick answer... just trying to get some background. I'd start by contacting the drive mfg support site... my guess is they will have some ideas.

Thanks for helping out Jon,

But... I FIXED IT!!
Thank God. Turns out I had to boot from that drive and disable some remnants of Norton GoBack still hanging around... after I did that, booted from my main drive and everything was peachy.

-T