Baffled...

[Ashman UK]

Ive presently got my vista os on an wdc 500gb sata II hd fine.

I put the os on this single drive as before i had the os on 2x150gb raptor x's in raid 0 till i started getting odd errors and odd things happening and orthos blend/stress test would always fail after a minute and i saw that one of my two raid drives came up with an error in the intel matrix storage manager.

So at the time i reset them to non-raid disks.

Now i can use the error free raptor x as a spare hard drive in vista next to my 500gb sata II which has the os on it.

I want to re-install vista on the single raptor x but for some unknown reason when i load the vista installation disk in and when it goes to detect the hd's it picks up the 500gb sata II hd but not the raptor x ever.

Both the sata power and sata cable is connected to the raptor x.

It shows up in the bios fine and again as a spare drive in windows but for the life of me i cannot get the vista installation disk to pick the raptor up to install vista on it.

I have checked this raptor in windows with hd tune for error's and it comes up fine.

Is it because it cant be used any more because its been used as part of a raid set-up or simply reseting it to a non raid disk should be ok to use again as a single drive?.

Any ideas? this ones doing my nut in a little..lol

 

[Ashman UK]

Hi peeps and thanks for the suggestions.

I have actually sorted the problem out.

What i think happened was, when i reset the disks to non-raid (specifically the error free raptor) it made them "unbootable" and perhaps thats why the vista installation disk would not pick the raptor up.

So i took a long shot and went to western digitals site from the sticky second from top of this forum and downloaded there data lifeguard protection tool kit.

With this you can analyse, format, partition your wd hard drives and i found that even though vista reported the error free raptor as an ntfs drive when i used the tool from western digital to analyse the error free raptor, it did not come up as an ntfs drive and reported that it was not bootable.

So with this tool i formated and made the disk bootable, went back into the usual vista installation process and it picked the raptor up straight away and i now have my os installed on it with no problems

Shame about the other raptor coming up with an error when tested with hd tune as this was the disk that came up with an error in the intel matrix storage manager when i had it in raid 0 with the error free raptor but i can rma it back to western digital as provided by the sticky near the top of this forum.

Thanks again for ya suggestions.

p.s. ive got the raptor sata cable connected to the intel sata controller not the silicon image one.