Boot Disc Failure (after raid setup)

DirtyJester · 12 Dec 2009 at 15:50

Ok yesterday I created a Raid 0 with 2 new Samsung 320gb drives ... I only had them installed while I put Win7 64 on ... after this was installed I added my other drives ( one of which was the original o/s drive with Vista 64 ) ... it was then I noticed after testing my raid that performance didnt seem that great so I decided to start again and create a new raid with 128k striping instead of 64k .... this time I didnt unplug the other drives BUT I did install win7 on the new raid setup .... now to the problem .... whenever I bootup without the Win7 disc in the drive I get a Boot disc failure and it asks me to insert the disc and hit any key .... if I leave the win 7 disc in the dvd drive it boots up giving me the option of Win7 or Vista .... How do I get it to boot without the boot disc failure message? Cheers

Should add when I created the raid (the new one) I did select Boot option tho when running HDtune it doesnt show as a boot drive.

DirtyJester · 12 Dec 2009 at 17:31

.... oh and for record I had zero issues starting up until I redid the raid 0 again.. is it possible with having the other drives attached the second time that the system/boot files have been installed on one of the other hard drives rather than the raid 0 drives ?

ChileanLlama · 12 Dec 2009 at 20:15

What drive is your BIOS set to boot from? Check that your RAID controller is set as priority and the name of your array the first device if it gives you the option.

DirtyJester · 13 Dec 2009 at 14:11

hi sorry only gettin back now due to the joys of nightshift ...

upon entering Bios my first two sata ports SATA 1 & SATA 2 (which are my raid array) are not showing up only Sata 3 to sata 6 are. In windows 'Computer Management / Disk Managment... Disk 3 shows as my Raid setup (albeit with little grey stripes through it?) its info says healthy (boot page file crash dump primary partion) but nothing about system ?

DirtyJester · 13 Dec 2009 at 15:35

Ok booted up again into BIOS and double checked a few things ...

It is ONLY on main bios page that SATA 1 and SATA 2 do not show but if I enter Advanced section they are listed as SATA 1 and SATA 2 with RAID enabled and then if I go to HARD DISK DRIVES in boot section the first one listed is 1) SCSI-0 RAID also 1st boot device is listed as Hard Disk ....

Im starting to think I need to run repair windows installation ?

DirtyJester · 15 Dec 2009 at 14:20

..Ok problem fixed ... went into BIOS and swapped the priority drive from the the RAID drives to the one with Vista installed ... removed win7 dvd ... booted and still have the option of win7 or vista