Help doing raid 0

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Ok guys, I've got a spare drive which was for the Wii, but as the Wii's hardly being used, i want to add it to my pc and do raid 0. I had this set up before the Nintendo Wii came.
The thing is, i don't want to reinstall windows and reinstall everything. I think i've heard about using images, but i don't really know how to do it.

Can anyone explain what i have to do etc (I couldn't find this is the sticky'd FAQ)?
 
They are both samsung F1's 500GB, the 1 from Wii was in my pc in raid 0 before, but i bought external case and reformatted and went back to normal.
I want to put it bk in my PC and use it in raid 0, but i don't want to reinstall everything, got so many games on it.
Is it possible to make and image, then put into raid 0, then restore the image over the drive? Would this work?
 
Ok so i'm using windows 7 image utility thingy, making an image back up to an external hdd. Then i just reinstall windows, then once resinstalled restore the backup?
 
Ok, managed to make an image and recovery disk, i used my NAS to put the image on, lol. was a little slow cus its not gigabit. Just gotta set up the raid now, thanks for your help :)
 
Ok, image restored usin the recovery disk. However, windows fails to boot, the startup repair also fails, anyone knows whats going on?
It tries to boot, the windows loading thing appears then i think its a blue screen, before restarting.
 
Hmm, ive repaired the mbr and the bcd. Just trying to rebuild the bcd now, still no luck :(
I'm wondering whether i should just install windows 7 and try to recover the image, or just try recovering the image again using the recovery disk.
 
rebuilding the bcd found 1 windows installation, but same blue screen at boot up. Same with safe mode too. So I'm going to windows first and check its work and not the array set up etc.
*EDIT*
At the start of the windows installation, it shows 2 drives, 2 x 465.8GB and shows one having windows installed.
I think when recovering the image, it said something like restoring partitions, I'm wondering if is what caused the problem
 
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Well i wasn't installing, i was restoring from a windows image back up. I've got windows 7 installed now, going to use acronis to access my windows 7 backup and see if it will work with acronis or something
 
Ok, how and when do i install these drivers? and wheres best place to get them?

*EDIT*
Theres a part saying Load Drivers before choosing restore image, is this correct?
 
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I tried it, and it didnt work. I think the problem is that when its restoring windows, its also restoring the partition, and this is somehow messing it up. Is there a way to disable it recovering the partition using acronis?

I'm going on holiday now, so i won't be back in a while to sort it. Cya guys in 1 week :)
 
Ok guys, i know this is a really really stupid questions. But when enabling raid in the bios should i enable it in the OnChip Device section, or OnBoard PCI Device section, both have storage devices and options to change to raid. I'm just abit confusing. I'm not using a pci raid controller, just the normal 1 on the motherboard.

I think I've almost managed to restore, using acronis and the Acronis Universal Restore function.

*EDIT*
I'm also abit unsure which drivers i need to use to get it to boot (the raid drivers) I'm on a Abit IX38 QuadGT motherboard, the website has intel and jmicron drivers, I'm just getting a little confused :P
 
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unfortunately after restore, and using the intel drivers, at boot i get an error

Status: 0xc0000225

Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
 
Unfortunately I've tried the startup repiar which doesn't work, then it says there might be some hardware that is incompatible and needs to be taken out and try rebooting. Do you think it could be my sound card? but i wudnt have thought it would stop it from booting.

I can't find this second screen, not quite sure what your on about.
I have used the bootrec to rebuild the mbr and bcd but it still doesn't work.
Also bootrec /scanos finds 0 windows installation, but the installation is shown when the windows repair CD starts.
 
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