Booting my computer today, resigned to the idea of wiping and building a new RAID5 and installing windows from scratch, I noticed that my array now appears as "Rebuilding".
Unfortunately, Windows 7 still fails to boot. A screen comes up just after the "Windows is starting" screen that gives me 30 seconds to choose between "Start Windows normally" or "Launch startup repair". "Start Windows normally" brings up a "Windows is loading files" progress bar along the bottom of the screen, then goes black and my computer proceeds to boot Ubuntu from my SSD. Choosing to launch the startup repair option gives me the same progress bar, then goes directly back to the same two options... "Start Windows normally" or "Launch startup repair".
So now I'm lost once again, and it appears to be less of an Intel issue and more of a Windows issue... though I would imagine that the cause of the problem is the RAID controller putting some information somewhere and losing track of it. When I boot into the Windows 7 Ultimate install disk and choose to "Repair your computer", I can load the IAStorA RAID drivers (I think?) and it will show me my C: drive, but will not show me that there is a Windows operating system on the drive that I can repair. I can, however, browse the whole drive, including loading drivers from the C:Windows/System32/DriverStor directory.
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