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maxibhoy
Ok i've been trying to set up a raid for a while now but everytime it just doesn't work. Ok here's what'a happening now. I have followed the mb manual to the letter, enabled raid in bios and enabled the raid as a boot device, Then i set up the raid in the raid utility after post. I'm trying to create a raid 0 with 2 200gb disks ok now i go to setup of xp. I press the f6 function to load the drivers, i load the drivers then right after it says setup is starting windows it comes up saying there are no disks attached. I mean the bios see's all three disks i have. the raid utility sees them and lets me pick the 2 i want in the raid. it creates them so why doesn't windows see them? Now previously i was using one samsung200gb disk and one seagate 200gb disk but i thought it must have been cos they're different models and bought the exact same samsung one. Still the exact same problem. I want to ask does anyone think it might be because i hadn't done a FULL format of the disks beforehand. I mean can this really make windows not see them at all? I've been trying this for so long any help will be so gratefully received. mb is asus p5w dh deluxe. Thanks a million. Max.
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To answer both question i'm using the intel ich7r raid. My sata leads are in the right ports (the three together) I'm loading the correct drivers i got from mb driver disc and i'm loading them from a mb connected floppy which is working perfectly fine. I have really tried everything and nothing seems to work. Although i have managed to get the third raid controller to give me a successfull raid 0 setup. This is the ez back up raid but the only problem with this is that if i then put my other hard drive (non raid) into ANY Other sata port it will immediatly disable the ez as a booting option and try to boot off the drive with no os. Even if i disable it as bootable in the bios i still cancels out the ez backup. This is obvoiusly since this is meant to be as a back up and not as the main bootable os drive. So i'm still stuck for the config i want. Thanks for replys Max.
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yep and it sets the raid up fine. up until it say setup is starting windows everything is fine.

Edit: Done all that mate.
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No the drives are fine. Remember i've got the raid 0 setup with the ez back up besides i just got one delivered today. Anyway all my drives are checked regulary and they're in good condition.
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the only reason i asked is that about a week ago i had a wd sata used drive that had been used in a raid 0 array that i pull out and was going to use in another computer, windows would not read it so i write the drive to 0's then it could see it ok
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Hmmm......That's quite interesting. It seems to encourage the theory i had a while ago that it was because i hadn't done a FULL format on both drives. See post #1. Think i'll try it when i've got time to zero fill both drives.
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