I power up my computer(XP), then come to windows XP loading and then everything is back to the beginning.....i go to his system and there it says :"The numbers of disk is not adequate to make a raid!"..did i need to install window XP again or what??.....how to solve this problem??pls help!!

Hi Safix.
There are a number of things that can cause this. It has to do with your system set up (BIOS). The first thing I would do is replace the CMOS battery on your motherboard. You'll have to unplug the PC.
After you unplug the PC from the electrical outlet, press the power button to discharge any remaining charge in the system.
Remove the side panel and look at your motherboard.
You will see the CMOS battery. It will be a round, silver battery...looks like a large watch battery.
There are a couple of retainer clips holding it in around the edges. Move them out of the way until the battery pops up. Remove it and get a replacement battery at Wal-Mart or Radio Shack, etc. Put the new one in (make sure you put it in correctly...+ side up.)
Then hook it all back up and see if that helps.

sounds like the computer might have been set up as a raid array and possibly one of the drives has died, in raid1 that shouldnt matter as the other drive should be a mirror of the other, see if you can get into safe mode could be a program running at startup messing things up, if it runs ok in safe mode try msconfig to stop progams see which is causing the problem

sounds like the computer might have been set up as a raid array and possibly one of the drives has died, in raid1 that shouldnt matter as the other drive should be a mirror of the other, see if you can get into safe mode could be a program running at startup messing things up, if it runs ok in safe mode try msconfig to stop progams see which is causing the problem

That is good advice.
I was working from the presumption that the computer had been working before previously, and then it just started doing this. When the CMOS battery starts running low it will mess up BIOS settings, and the RAID settings can be a symptom. He indicated it was an "old" computer, and on old computers replacing the CMOS battery is a good idea anyway.

Can you provide more information?

Do you know if your Windows was set up on a RAID?

If so, do you know that kind of raid? RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 2,RAID 3,RAID 4, RAID 5, RAID 10, JBOD?

You almost never see 2,3,or 4. A RAID 10 is just a Raid 0 and a Raid 1 put together. Sometimes also referred to as a RAID 1+0

See More info on RAIDS here RAID - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Before Changing the CMOS Battery (which would still be a good idea) if you do not have any RAIDs on your computer then reset your BIOS to factory.

If you do have a RAID, then one of your Hard Drives probably went bad.

What kind of computer is this? Custom built for factory build?

thank you for informations i will try that with battery, computer is old about 6 years its product of LG,,,, the battery is kts, i dont no >drive< that you ask me!! its factory product, i have it 2003-and 2010 that problem start happeing to me!!

when you replace bios battery look see how many hard drive are present

I power up my computer

i go to his system and there it says

is it a spelling mistake or are we talking about two different computers, i would have assumed spelling mistake, but if your getting a black screen where is it telling you theres not enough discs to create a raid array, do you mean when you get into bios (system)

yes in BIOS sistem ----> "The number of disc is not adequate to make a raid!"

look in the bios sounds like one of the settings for the drivea is set to RAOD try changing it to IDE or AHCI, and how many physical drives are there inside the case/

Might be faster if you go into your bios and load default settings.