vista wont boot :(

Soulreaver

so...i have this machine with vista installed as well as a raid controller and i cant get vista to boot.

this machine belongs to a friend of mine who has asked me to kind of take a look at it and see what i can do.

i asked him what he did before this happened, he said he added another disk to his raid controller then converted the c: to a dynamic disk then extended it to grab a hold of the unused space


when i booted it up at my place it displayed a Mac address and a guid i assumed it was trying to boot off of the network, i changed the boot devices to harddrive and cdrom


when it checks for the harddrive it asks for a system disk.


when booting for the vista cd, it does not detect the harddrives when i run the recovery tools, i try to install the raid driver still no luck


when starting the install procedure it does detect the harddrive, when i run the Command line tool i can browse the C: drive just fine




right now im using the automated tool that fixes errors that might cause windows to not boot.


do you guys have any ideas/opinions on what might be wrong?

(this is my first experience with windows vista)

Soulreaver

so right now im thinking its due to the dynamic disk.


does anyone know how to boot off this disk?(i know u gotta format to convert it back to basic, but im trying to avoid that )

Soulreaver

i gave up, backed up all data, remade the raid reinstalled restored