Help doing raid 0

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.

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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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Use the non PCI ones, download the intel drivers, stick them on a USB stick (remember the path for when you install from them on windows setup) and make sure your hard drives are plugged into the normal SATA ports and not the jmicron ones
 
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.
 
Id the tartup fails then boot of a windows 7 dvd or usb and then goto repair install. I should repair it. If this does not work then go to the repair install on the second screen and this does a another repair. This worked for me when I imaged my hdd to my ssd.
 
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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Dont know much about image restores, and if that would affect whats going on, but...

seekdestroy said:
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.
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For the IX38, jmicron is for esata (external sata). Just dissable it in the bios. I forget where the other raid option is. Its the one where you have ide/ahci and raid to choose from. Raid automatically uses ahci. You cant just leave it set to ide. Dont know whether an image not set to ahci would have problems if you then changed this to image onto a raid setup?

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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The intel ones, but with Win7, dont use any - seriously. Unless this is different from what you are doing with this image, if you were just installing Win7 from scratch then you let it do everything... after sorting out the raid settings on the CTRL I page.

With Xp, I used to have to get the floppy disk drive out to install with two hard drives in raid.

I can't find this second screen, not quite sure what your on about.
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The ctrl-I screen?

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Here we go. A thread on trying to get a non ahci image onto a raid setup for ICH9 Change the url ****s to the well known place that fell out with OCUK years and years ago.
http://forums.*****.net/*****-hardw...hout-reinstalling-windows-p35-ich9-ich9r.html
 
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