Hello Siegmjd Your Recovery Partition(s) are marked active as they should be. This means that the BCD Loader files will be  written to that partition, a folder called BOOT and a root file called bootmgr, this is what boots the system.  When building the system, use DISKPART and create the partition the same as the old. diskpart list drives                                                                                       =make sure to select correct drive here. select drive # clean create part pri size=39 id=DE format fs=fat label="DellUtility" create part pri size=8817 format fs=ntfs label="Recovery" quick assign letter=d active create part pri format fs=ntfs label="OS" quick assign letter=c exit That should have you ready to install your Windows. If after you install it doesn't boot, boot from CD and go to %root%\windows\system32 BCDBOOT %root%\Windows %root% being the drive letter that shows after you boot from CD. Hope this helps. Tom
Hi, I have Aurora system.  I currently has a RAID 0 with 2 hard drives installed.  One drive is going bad, so I need to build / restore to a new RAID. I installed 2 new drives (on ports 3,4) and configured another RAID 0.  That all seemed to go well. BUT - I can not seem to get ANY kind of Windows 7 properly installed on the new RAID.  I have tried: Dell Datasafe backup - booting from a system restore disk.  I did this for my current save point, and a factory reset. Windows 7 install from the CD that came with the system. In any case above, the process seems to go well. All files are loaded to the new RAID array.  But that's when the trouble starts. I can NOT get the new array to boot.   In my latest attempt, I left the original RAID connected and running.  And somehow, the Windows 7 Install proceeded to build the new array with the OS, but will boot from the old array. What is the trick to getting getting a new volume on the new RAID array to boot?   Please help. Thanks,  
Help - can not properly install Windows 7 on RAID 