XP no longer boots off RAID

Hi,
I had to upgrade BIOS so I ended up in "Load BIOS defaults".
That nice operation disabled nVidia RAID setup on ASUS mobo - I didn't
notice that. After that change XP started ok, however discovered 2 HDDs,
installed drivers for them and now I see two HDD's rather than one.
Went back to BIOS, enabled RAID, visited F10 to see if Mirror is Healthy (it
was).
But Windows won't start: Missing NTOSKERNEL
If I disable RAID in BIOS XP works, shows two drives, and that's not what I
want.

Now the question:
How do I lure XP into using RAID drivers again?
(Without reinstalling Windows and countless updates?)
TIA
Paul

Usually you need to enable RAID 2 or 3 places in the BIOS,advanced chipset,
set boot priority,& in advanced,enable RAID & IDE devices.After that,you
should
get the post RAID utility before xp starts,if the post RAID utility doesnt
show
then RAID is not enabled.

"Koski" wrote:

> Hi,
> I had to upgrade BIOS so I ended up in "Load BIOS defaults".
> That nice operation disabled nVidia RAID setup on ASUS mobo - I didn't
> notice that. After that change XP started ok, however discovered 2 HDDs,
> installed drivers for them and now I see two HDD's rather than one.
> Went back to BIOS, enabled RAID, visited F10 to see if Mirror is Healthy (it
> was).
> But Windows won't start: Missing NTOSKERNEL
> If I disable RAID in BIOS XP works, shows two drives, and that's not what I
> want.
>
> Now the question:
> How do I lure XP into using RAID drivers again?
> (Without reinstalling Windows and countless updates?)
> TIA
> Paul
>
>

That's right Andrew - sorry for not making this clearer: "...visited F10 to
see if mirror is Healthy (it was)..." refers to the RAID utility you mention
- it does work.
So the problem really is: how to substitute std. SATA HDD XP drivers with
ones, that were used earlier, when XP booted off RAID?

"Andrew E." wrote:

> Usually you need to enable RAID 2 or 3 places in the BIOS,advanced chipset,
> set boot priority,& in advanced,enable RAID & IDE devices.After that,you
> should
> get the post RAID utility before xp starts,if the post RAID utility doesnt
> show
> then RAID is not enabled.
>
> "Koski" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I had to upgrade BIOS so I ended up in "Load BIOS defaults".
> > That nice operation disabled nVidia RAID setup on ASUS mobo - I didn't
> > notice that. After that change XP started ok, however discovered 2 HDDs,
> > installed drivers for them and now I see two HDD's rather than one.
> > Went back to BIOS, enabled RAID, visited F10 to see if Mirror is Healthy (it
> > was).
> > But Windows won't start: Missing NTOSKERNEL
> > If I disable RAID in BIOS XP works, shows two drives, and that's not what I
> > want.
> >
> > Now the question:
> > How do I lure XP into using RAID drivers again?
> > (Without reinstalling Windows and countless updates?)
> > TIA
> > Paul
> >
> >