Recent content by Corin Segar

thanks for your message mike, it was very useful.. i bought a single SATA3 7200RPM terrabyte drive (£65) to have on standby, and made regular backups of my 'C:' drive (the RAID drives) until they crashed the system so much i could no longer progress with my work. i have now disabled the RAID...

When I press Ctrl+I this is the next screen.. As you can see there are no options here for error analysis. There is the option to reset the drives back to non-RAID, but wont this mean I will lose my data? There is not enough storage space left to create a new RAID volume on these drives...

My apologies for being vague. Here is a photo of the screen, it is directly after post, and if I do not press Ctrl+I to enter the configuration utility then the next event is windows booting up. As you can see there is no information available about the errors from post to windows loading, I ran...

Hi Trouble, On boot up I pressed Ctrl+I and was given options to create/ delete RAID volumes. This menu was titled 'Intel (R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM v7.6.1.1001 ICH9R' so I believe the RAID array is created with this software. It is as it came from the Dell factory. My machine is...

Hi, my system is: Dell XPS 420 Q6600 @ 2.4GHz 8GB RAM @ 667MHz Bios A07 Windows 7 home premium 64 (SP 1) 2 x 256GB hitatchi drives in RAID 0 this system was purchased in 2009 and has not been upgraded with new hardware (apart from RAM immediately after purchase). I have recently experienced...