Problems with Striped Drives

[moonguppie]

I am trying to do a clean reinstall of Windows XP pro on a system with 2 striped drives because of a nasty virus and the user's wish to clean house. Each time Windows when I am asked if I want to load Windows from the XP installation, I get the message that it cannot find the HD. I've unplugged each 300G SATA drive and tried again. The striped drives show up as a 100G C: drive and a 500G D: drive. I have formatted the D: drive and switched the drives. I am not experienced with striped drives and feel like I am poking around in the dark. Windows does not give me the option to return them change the C: drive to a non-dynamic/simple drive. Would Partition Magic offer some options?

Thanks in advance.

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[acewarlock]

What is a striped drive?




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[smah]

You probably need to install the 3rd party raid drivers (either motherboard or add-on card) during the installation.

Generally when some says 'striped' they are referring to Raid 0 (or some variation of raid that includes a raid 0 level)

 

[wahnula]

You probably need to install the 3rd party raid drivers

Exactly. And this IS a RAID 0 driveset, as the total is 600GB. Steps:

1. Create RAID 0 array in RAID BIOS (sounds like this is already done)
2. Create a RAID floppy disk using the MAKEDISK tool usually found in the driver on the M/B CD, or downloaded from the Internet (if you don't have a floppy drive, there is a way to slipstream your drivers into the OS with NLITEOS:

http://www.nliteos.com/);

3. If you've made the floppy, using a wired PS/2 keyboard, start tapping the F6 button once Windows starts to load;
4. During Installation Windows will ask for the drivers, follow the directions and install the drivers

Everything should work fine now.

Tony

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