I did something bad, now I can't boot Vista64

[sub3marathonman]

OK, everything was fine until I had to replace the little battery on the motherboard. I did that without problem.

Then I reset the BIOS. That's where I did bad. Instead of making it RAID again, I didn't set the BIOS and it reverted to IDE. So I had it boot from just one of the RAID 1 disks. Which went right along, Vista booted up, and said it was installing the drivers.

Then I figured out I had made a mistake. I went back into the BIOS, and set it up for RAID, and set the boot disk to the RAID array.

Now it won't boot, saying there is an error and to boot up with a Vista boot disk. I put in the Vista disk and it won't boot either.

So now there are two questions.

1) Even though the two disks are back in RAID-1, is the one disk that was booted into VISTA different than the "mirror" disk now? And if so, would it be better to break the array and restore it again using the disk that wasn't used to inadvertently boot to Vista?

2) Is there a way to just load the RAID driver back into the one disk that Vista changed?

Thank you for any help with this.

 

[usasma]

I'd suggest using the disk that booted into Vista - but formatting it and letting it install itself into the RAID 1 array. Read up on this before doing it as I only have a vague idea that this will work.