DFI LanParty UT SLI-D + RAID problems

Mr Spoon · 11 Jul 2006 at 14:00

had everything running nicely till I flashed the BIOS (needed for my GeForce 7950) then Windows XP died - even with the old video card.

I only have 1 PC with SATA, so I installed XP on a spare IDE disk but Windows couldn't recognize the raid, but good old MS-DOS did, so I had to backup all my data from a dos boot disk - only does 8.3 format tho

With everything backed up I could format my disk and do a fresh install.
Except now, when I get to the XP installer where it asks where you want to install, it says 150Gb raid OR 75Gb single drive - wtf ? theres only 2 hard disks in now and they are raided. so it should only see the raid.

I did press F6 and installed the "Required" two NVidia raid drivers from floppy - i even tried the latest ones.

Anyone any idea ?

thanks

Dutch Guy · 11 Jul 2006 at 15:13

Did you set up the RAID array and made it bootable by pressing F10 at boot?

Mr Spoon · 11 Jul 2006 at 15:18

yep done that. and again by deleting the old array and still no joy :/

Rokusho · 11 Jul 2006 at 15:19

Possible partition in one of the drives?? Which is probably impossible as its in RAID. Could your mobo Hard drive controller be on the fritz???

Dutch Guy · 11 Jul 2006 at 15:24

What happens when you select the RAID array to install Windows on?

Mr Spoon · 11 Jul 2006 at 16:46

i selected the raid to install windows on, it seemed to be working (copying) then when it rebooted it said no NTLDR, so I booted to dos floppy and checked c drive and nothing !
then when i try again it says \windows already exists, press L to delete etc - wtf ?