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Have a machine with duel 500 GB WD Velociraptor drives (used to be) mirrored in a RAID 1 configuration. Had a co-worker playing footsie with the power cord which loosened it and caused the machine restarted a few times and eventually it refused to boot. Seems losing power during a reboot isn't a good thing. The drives were setup in the RAID using the Intel RST (Rapid Storage Tech) drivers. Anyway in order to them up and running ASAP, I ran the recovery utility in Win 7 and presto, I have two independent drives now. One with a working version of Windows 7 Pro on the C-drive and a copy of the corrupted Win7Pro on the E-dive. Unfortunately the E drive really has all the software I need to get working. I do have a Windows-old directory on the working C-drive so it all seems to be there as well. I'd love to rebuild the registry on the bad drive if possible and then setup the RAID again. I figure that may be a lost cause; but I'd be happy getting the MS Office back up and running, was preloaded on the machine and I don't have the key. I've already loaded all the other software I can. I figure its on the bad drive somewhere. Anyone know where it's hiding? I now do have a boot menu that allows me to choose which drive to start from. Seems to be a driver that's prevent windows from booting. Won't load in safe mode. I can't reload the RST driver without getting "platform not supported" error - future problem...