Re: Accessing Hardrives On Raid Setup

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From: Arny Krueger (arnyk_at_hotpop.com)
Date: 03/01/04 

Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 08:40:57 -0500

"Dave Hannam" <davo57@dodo.com.au> wrote in message
news:e5Rktx4$DHA.1956@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl
> I have an ASUS motherboard with raid (2x80Gb) using Windows XPsp1, if
> I want to boot up using a Windows ME floppy, how can I access the
> raided hardrives.The theory is I had an ocassion when I lost my
> CDRoms and tried to do a repair on XP. When starting the repair it
> asked for a file ASMS on SP1 CD, the only thing I could find was a
> Folder by that name and the repair would not proceed. So then I lost
> access to my hardrives. I wanted to access the hardrives so I could
> retreive files before I did a fresh install. So I incidently could
> not get to them so I lost them. Could someone give me a hint as to
> what I need to do in future! Thanks,

XP drives(s) are proabably formatted NTFS, which WomME can't read. Try
accessing the drives with an XP or Win2K system.

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