Hey guys. I'm pretty stuck now. Basically, I'm running a Sony Vaio VGC-RC204 which has two 300gb hdds by default in a RAID configuration (I've configured them to be one large 600gb drive). However, I put a 750gb drive in a spare SATA port and installed Ubuntu Linux on it. For a while I was dual-booting Vista and Ubuntu. I've since removed that drive and formatted it in my NAS. However, when I turn my computer on now I get no boot screen... It flashes the Vaio logo on the screen and then goes to just a black screen..- just nothing. I cannot do a Vista repair as I can't for the life of me find the correct drivers for the RAID controller to actually discover the hard disks so that Vista repair can see the OS installation. I don't really care what happens to the PC now... I just need my files off of the 2x300GB hard disks and I can't manage to get them off whatever way I think of. Knoppix LiveCD won't see the hard disks as they're in RAID and I have very little experience with RAID. One consolation is that in Vista Repair, if I click on 'Load Drivers' (in order to discover an OS installation) I can browse to the C drive and see that all my files are still there under one large 600GB volume. Basically, I just want to be able to get into my Vista installation. I'm guessing I've just severely screwed up the boot record but can't fix it because I can't actually view the OS to fix. If anyone knows which drivers I need to load to view the RAID then please help. Any other advice is also greatly appreciated! Thanks. James Coster

Might try the ntfs.com boot disk. It is a windows pe 2 like vista. You's have to burn it on another system. Boot to ubuntu live (7) install. It might have the drivers installed. Knoppix 5.1 is pretty good at it. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.

The correct file to create a raid F6 Disk for your computer should be here: http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/sw... You need to run the program on a computer that is running windows. You can specify the location to extract the files too. A USB Flash memory drive would be a good choice. To fix Vista Boot, make sure the USB drive with the F6 Drivers is inserted in a USB port before you boot with Vista CD, click thru regional options, and select repair option from menu. When you get to the screen showing available OS to repair, load the driver from the Flash memory Drive, and it should shortly show the Vista Partition. It should quickly fix the boot sector of the Array, and restore booting to the Vista Partition.