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Solve : I broke XP and now I need to wipe my RAID drives?

Answer» <html><body><p>Hello,<br/>One of my machines, <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/xp-747558" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about XP">XP</a> <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/pro-606431" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PRO">PRO</a> with two RAID drives went down after I tried to upgrade too much hardware at once and got the dreaded ' NTLDR is missing '-  from which I could not recover.  So, I've decided to wipe the drives and start again.  How can I best do this, please  ?   I have another , Windows 7 , machine available. Why RAID ? ?The two drives were installed as a RAID pair several years ago.   Now I want to wipe them and reinstall XP .  No RAID this time.Wipe both...<br/>Unhook 1 of them and do a clean install of XP to it...<br/>Then after all drivers etc. are re-installed re-introduce the 2nd drive.Thank you, patio, I'll crack on with that tomorrow.OK, that particular route has ground to a halt.  I've got ' No VGA signal '  so I can't proceed.  I've swapped out the graphics card-  no result.  Same for the monitor.  Is my mobo finished ?   I hope not, it's a socket 939. At what point in the procedures is this happening ? ?<br/>Do you have video booting to the XP CD ? ?<br/>How did you wipe the drives ? ?<br/>Is the 2nd drive dis-connected yet ? ?I haven't booted the machine for many months.<br/>The last time I used it I was attempting to address the ' NTLDR is missing ' message-  which of course was <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/displayed-2586485" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DISPLAYED">DISPLAYED</a> on the monitor.<br/>I put the machine aside and returned to the task yesterday.<br/>That's when the ' No VGA signal ' appeared , on first boot, and I posted here.<br/>I've swapped out the monitor.<br/>I've swapped out the graphics card-  both of which are good.<br/>Message is ' No VGA signal '<br/>Any ideas ?<br/><br/>I've disconnected each of the drives in turn but can't proceed with no VGA signal.<br/>There is no VGA signal when attempting to boot from CD.Boot to the XP CD...you can delete the partition on the 1st HDD...format and then continue with Setup which will install XP.There is no VGA signal when attempting to boot from the XP CD.  Try another monitor...then try the onboard video...Yes, I've already swapped monitors-  no change.<br/>I'm glad you mentioned the onboard video.  I would have tried that already but it's a nine pin male VGA and I've got nothing with which to connect a fifteen pin VGA monitor.  It's an aging Gigabyte board, a GA- K8NXP-9.    I'd never noticed the 9 pin connection before as I've always used a PCI-e card.All i can suggest then is borrow a vid card to test and swap it in there...<br/>At that point you can decide if it's worth putting any money in to it...or not.As I said, I've already installed a spare video card-  to no effect.<br/><br/>Where can I get a <em>cable</em> which is 9 pin female AVG on one end and 15 pin male on the other ?   What would such a cable be called ? Nope, this board doesn't have a video port.  The 9 pin is a seriaL.    I'll check the PSU <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/next-578185" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about NEXT">NEXT</a>.</p></body></html>


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