[ITT] We spend the next few hours recovering my laptop.

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This is roughly the same result no matter whether I try to format them together, individually, format the drive (to Master Boot Drive) or the volume (to NTFS)
 
Someone please take a look at these screencaps and tell me why my Vista install isn't recognizing my HDD(s) at all, despite the fact Ubuntu seems to know they're there.

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I'm really hoping it's something dumb I stupidly overlooked
 
your drives are on a raid controller and the windows installation or livecd you are trying to use does not have the raid controller driver.
 
You'll need a floppy disk.

I thought they remedied that in Vista...

Also, since when do laptops have raid controllers? :huh:
 
As far as I know, yes. The last time I used RAID was with either XP or 2000 where you needed to have them on a floppy disk. You can also slipstream them into the install CD, but that's a bit of work.

Did you format the individual 500 GB drives using Ubuntu? If so, you may have fucked up the array.

edit: beaten by the android
 
I did format the individual drives too, so maybe I fucked up this whole "array"? How could I fix that?

I'm also confused about this whole RAID situation. Why would a brand new like super expensive gaming computer from 2009 be using RAID over SATA?
 
The manufacturer combined your SATA drives as RAID 0 for increased performance. What is the make and model of your laptop?
 
Problem is they've updated and changed the m17 since 2 years agox that the drivers and chipset they have listed in their support section is completely different
 
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