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I booted my MSI Win7 laptop and noticed the Intel RAID boot info says Error occurred(0), pretty much like the screen shot here: How to clear RAID "Error Occurred(0)" member disk message?

Windows starts loading, shows the Windows logo but then hangs with a blank screen showing only the mouse pointer.

I then discovered (and cursed myself for not realising how stupid this was when I got the machine) that it has 2 500GB Hitachi HDDs, and they are combined into one RAID0 volume.

Then the volume is partitioned (when I bought it already) into 4 volumes, with the OS on C: and the data on D:, plus a 10GB volume labeled BIOS_RVY and a 100MB volume labeled 'System'.

I ran the startup repair utility, and that didn't detect any issues.

I booted up with my rescue disk and ran chkdsk on C: and D:, and it didn't find any problems.

I checked some of the files on the filesystem, and they look fine.

I have a backup from 3 days ago, so I could replace the hard drives and restore, but I'd like to avoid that.

My question is whether I can fix the hard drive that's in error without needing to reinstall everything and restore my backup (they're not disk clones or images, they're standard backed-up files).

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Checkdisk startup is irrelevant. If the system boots fine, you can check each drive with HD Tune. Get that, perform a scan and see if you detect anything bad. A single bad sector can cause warnings/errors in the RAID0 configuration, but it does not really mean that you will have data loss. Also, you should check the SMART status of the drives in the array using the same HDTune program.

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