Help! Sata HDD Reboots System

[ineqfor]

If anyone could help me. I will thanks.

About one month ago my HDD Sata (Barracuda ST380023AS) stop booting. After the winXP boot screen the system reboots. If I start in the mode "not reboot on system errors" he stop in a blue screen for safety reasons, indicating VIAMRAID:SYS Problem.

If I try to boot from a working perfect IDE HDD with the SATA HDD attached the system reboots again.

By the way the MBoard is a ASRock P4VM8 and the firmware is Updated.

I Think the Sata Raid drive have got a virus.

The problem is to gain access to the disk.

Any help is welcome.

Thanks.

[christhedon]

Did you get this resolved and how???? If not, does anyone else know how to resolve this issue and what causes it?

Thanks in advance,

Chris

[puntoMX]

What version of XP are we talking about here? SP2?

The problem is that older VIA chipsets need a driver to work with SATA. The drive isn’t damaged and data is still on the disk. I would reinstall windows, download and install the newest VIA drivers and see if it helped...

For sure it’s NOT a hardware problem…

[christhedon]

What version of XP are we talking about here? SP2?

The problem is that older VIA chipsets need a driver to work with SATA. The drive isn’t damaged and data is still on the disk. I would reinstall windows, download and install the newest VIA drivers and see if it helped...

For sure it’s NOT a hardware problem…

Yes SP2. Why would the driver stop working all of a sudden?

[puntoMX]

Something must have messed up the driver, the only way now is to reinstall Windows when "last known good" and "safe mode" don’t work any more...