Repairing XP while maintaining RAID integrity?

[Mark]

I was playing a game when my computer began to drop
frames, I figured my video card was about to crash, so I
exited and restarted.

The computer will not restart, I am getting past the post
screen, and apparently my RAID stripe is functional, but
it tells me that a file in windows\system32\config\system
(I think it's system.log) is "missing or corrupt."

I try to run a windows (XP pro) repair, by booting from
the cd, but it tells me that my hard drive "has not been
detected." Apparently, when it prompts me, I am supposed
to "press F6 to install any third-party RAID drivers."

I have an ASUS A7V333 with a Promise RAID controller and I
put the drivers on a disk. Here's the thing, I have never
reinstalled/repaired XP before, is reinstalling the RAID
drivers going to make me lose my data or settings?

[larry samuels MS-MVP \(XP Shell/User\)]

No--you have to have the RAID drivers in place to use the RAID.
Make sure you choose to run a repair install or you will lose everything.

--
Larry Samuels MS-MVP (Windows-Shell/User)
Associate Expert
Unofficial FAQ for Windows Server 2003 at
http://home.earthlink.net/~larrysamuels/WS2003FAQ.htm
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
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"Mark" > wrote in message
...
> I was playing a game when my computer began to drop
> frames, I figured my video card was about to crash, so I
> exited and restarted.
>
> The computer will not restart, I am getting past the post
> screen, and apparently my RAID stripe is functional, but
> it tells me that a file in windows\system32\config\system
> (I think it's system.log) is "missing or corrupt."
>
> I try to run a windows (XP pro) repair, by booting from
> the cd, but it tells me that my hard drive "has not been
> detected." Apparently, when it prompts me, I am supposed
> to "press F6 to install any third-party RAID drivers."
>
> I have an ASUS A7V333 with a Promise RAID controller and I
> put the drivers on a disk. Here's the thing, I have never
> reinstalled/repaired XP before, is reinstalling the RAID
> drivers going to make me lose my data or settings?