RAID Drives Recognised In BIOS But Not All Recognised In XP

Janusz · 19 Nov 2007 at 18:56

Hi

Below is my setup:

Intel Q6600 Quad Processor
GIGA GA-P35-DS4 Motherboard
Crucial Ballistix 2 x 1 GB DDR2 8500 RAM
4 x Seagate Barracuda 500 GB HDD 7500.10

I have set up 2 Drives in RAID-0 (Striped) and 2 non RAID SATA Drives.

In BIOS (and when the system loads) it recognises all of the drives - no problems here.

In Windows Explorer it only shows the partitioned hard drive I made during XP installation (C: Drive which is 250GB) - Why?

When I run the Intel Matrix controller software it shows all of my 4 Hard Drives as does Windows Hardware Profile property inspector.

All 4 HDDs are in the Intel Ornage Controller. I have no HDDS on the Purple GIGA Controller

Any ideas?

semi-pro waster · 19 Nov 2007 at 19:13

You need Raid drivers for XP, there should be some on the Gigabyte website for you to download and quite possibly on the Intel website as well or even on the motherboard CD if you prefer.

rpstewart · 19 Nov 2007 at 22:17

If the OS is installed then the correct drivers are there. There problem here is that the drives haven't been partitioned and formatted in Disk Management - right click on My Computer and pick Manage.

semi-pro waster · 20 Nov 2007 at 00:00

Ah, my mistake, I misread it to be that there was a separate OS drive and the striped array was independent of this.

Janusz · 20 Nov 2007 at 00:36

rpstewart said:
If the OS is installed then the correct drivers are there. There problem here is that the drives haven't been partitioned and formatted in Disk Management - right click on My Computer and pick Manage.

Yep that was the problem, all sorted now. Thanks for helping us out again rpstewart