"How to Boot XP Pro from integrated RAID 0"

[TwizGuy]

Hello.

I've managed to install XP Pro into a striped RAID array (2 seagates 80GB) using integrated controllers on an Asus A7N8X Deluxe as part of a motherboard upgrade. But..., I did so with a bootable W98 IDE spinning on drive C, and now I can't boot XP unless I have that W98 disk active. When I boot I get a choice of OS, and I can select XP and everything is wonderful. But if I cripple IDE or put a different drive at C, I cannot boot; I get an "NTLDR not found." I rearranged the BIOS to give scsi first priority (I'm assuming the SI controller sees the array as scsi) and I used PQ's Image Copy to write an MBR to the RAID array and make it bootable, but no luck.

Any ideas are appreciated.

Thanks (hope I'm in the right forum).

 

[SYAR2003]

Remove the ide drive when installing xp on the raid.
Now the ide disk holds the startup/system files for
the xp installation .

I have the same issue on abit nf7-s .
Just take out the power plug on the ide drives leaving
only the raid set powered up ,and installs xp on the raid .

 

[TwizGuy]

Hey, thanks! I forgot to mention that I used NTFS which may be another hurdle, but I appreciate this tip. Thanks again!!