Get a grip on yourself....Thiers no possible way to "migrate" a RAID array
from one board to another,even if the 2 brds are the same,let alone a 925
to a 945 chip set.Repair,forget it,only a clean install of xp will work.....

"Neil Bradley" wrote:

> After solving my "Inaccessible boot device" problems of a few days ago,
> I bought a new system and am attempting to migrate the old RAID array to
> the new motherboard, and am getting STOP code 0x7b (inaccessible boot
> device) now. Some notes:
>
> 1) Migrating from an Intel D925XECV2 to Intel D945PVS motherboard. The
> difference in the RAID controller is the former is an ICH6, the latter
> is ICH7.
>
> 2) The device driver (iaStor.sys) for both motherboards is identical
> (it's literally the same driver)
>
> 3) The D945PVS recognizes the RAID array from the 925 system and sees it
> as good.
>
> 4) Performed a chkdsk /p - no errors
>
> 5) Attempting a repair install. Pressing F6 and feeding it iaStor.sys,
> the XP boot CD is able to see the RAID array without incident, and all
> of my other files on the partition.
>
> 6) After doing the repair install, Windows comes up with the horizontal
> scrolling blue dots, then either reboots if I don't have the "pause on
> system restart" option set, or stops with an 0x7b Inaccessible boot device.
>
> 7) Boot order is set to CDROM player first, then RAID1 array, and the
> RAID 1 array comes up as drive C
>
> 8) Safe mode and debug mode yield the same problem (an automatic reboot)
>
> 9) The iaStor.sys file is on the hard disk and is OK
>
> 10) The HAL from the prior system was a multiprocessor HAL, and this
> system is a dual core system (with an MP HAL, too)
>
> 11) There are no other devices in the system other than the motherboard
> components (audio, 1394, LAN, etc...) and a video card (NVidia 7800 board).
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts at all on this one on how to get this
> system migrated? I really, really don't want to reinstall all of my
> applications - that'll take days to get all straightened out again (I
> did make a backup of the system just in case). Thanks,
>
> -->Neil
>