Freezing while VERIFYING DMI POOL DATA

[6foot7]

OK! Ithink I finally got WIN 7 to install on my raid setup. I wasn't able to install using RAID 0 so I used a RAID 1 (mirroring) instead. I had to use RAID 1 because of the limitations of WIN 7. It cannot be installed on a partition larger than 2TB. The problem I am having now is that during startup the screen freezes at the linE that says: VERIFYING DMI POOL DATA and it will not go any further.

NEED HELP!

EDIT by Fernando: The thread title has been changed by me to make the topic more specific.

[Fernando 1]

Since your problem has nothing to do with the nForce drivers, this thread is off topic regarding this Forum.

Please look into >this< page. There you can find the possible causes for your issue and some solutions.
Most common reasons:

• corrupted MBR
• wrong BIOS settings ("HARD DISK BOOT PRIORITY" etc)
• bad PSU (not strong enough)
• too old BIOS battery

Another thought:
Maybe you forgot to break the RAID0 array before you created the RAID1 one. This is very important, because otherwise you will have 2 different data at the track zero of your RAIDed hdd's.

If you should need further help, please do a Google search for "VERIFYING DMI POOL DATA".

Regards
Fernando

[6foot7]

I am sorry if I posted in the wrong section, I posted here because I thought the problem might be a driver issue.

[Fernando 1]

I am sorry if I posted in the wrong section, I posted here because I thought the problem might be a driver issue.

That's ok. I gave you some tips nevertheless.

Good luck!
Fernando

[davexnet]

I experienced this myself once.
It turns out, the Bios default, to load from removable drives first was active.

I had accidentally left my USB thumb drive, containing a load of mp3's, plugged in, and the system tried to boot
from it. As soon as I pulled the drive, the system returned to normal.

[Fernando 1]

I experienced this myself once.
It turns out, the Bios default, to load from removable drives first was active.
I had accidentally left my USB thumb drive, containing a load of mp3's, plugged in, and the system tried to boot
from it. As soon as I pulled the drive, the system returned to normal.

Thanks for your reply, which may help other users, who are running into the same problem.

Regards
Fernando