Dell xps 420 desktop intel manager states missing hard drive raid

Corrupt files

Did you initialize the drive in control panel, administrative tools, computer management, disk storage?

Error 146 pertains to hard drive error. If there is still a chance to back up your files do so as this kind of error indicates a faulty
hard drive.

A boot device stores your operating system (i.e. Windows), and is usually your hard drive, but can be any storage medium such as a floppy, usb flash drive, or even a cd rom. When you turn your computer on, your motherboard looks for your OS on any of the storage devices specified in your bios, in the order specified to look first (Ex. Boot order: 1. CD-Rom, 2. Floppy, 3. Hard Drive, 4. Network). Your Dell is telling you that it can't find Windows on any of these devices. Most likely cause is that your hard drive stopped working, your Windows boot.ini file became corrupted, or you have a USB device plugged into your computer, and it needs to be unplugged before turning on your computer.

Right click on Computer in the Start menu. You should see manage.
click on manage and you will see some selections the left one called disk management. click that and you should see all your drives. If you disable the Raid you may have to initialize the disk for windows to use it again. right click on the drive and initialize or if it shows up you may have to create a partition and then format.

Try to Go to Disk Management by right clicking My Computer, click Manage.

From the left panel, expand Storage and Click Disk Management.

Do you see your new harddrive from there? If it is a new hard drive, right click and Format it and assign a new drive letter afterwards.

If you need further assistance, just let me know.

go to disk management and inicalize the drive

What type of hard drive is it. Sound like you put in a SATA hard drive. You need to load the drivers for that hard drive. During the Windows XP setup it gives you an option to load 3rd party drivers that what is sounds like you need to to.

I think we a re talking about SMART technology, that is disk is telling you that something's wrong. If you have a guarantee, return it to reseller and ask for another one.

Hi i also have a dell xps 400 what you need to do is enable sata 1 on the bios and then reboot ( if you havent already). Then if you have windows xp click right on my computer and select manage,it opens up computer mangement, then go to the tab called storage and on the sub menu of storage click disk management . You should see you 2nd hard drive (labelled disk 1 at the bottom) make sure its your 2nd HDD ( Look at capacity in properties by clicking right on it) .Click right on the 2nd hard drive and select format press ok when the new window comes up and its finished.