I want to set up Raid but have no Floppy !

[MrBlobby]

I want to set up Raid but have no Floppy !

is there a work around ?

It's for a Asrock Dual-VSTA

the other thing the Sata only goes up to 150 mbs so is it worth getting two F3 Sata disks

 

[Broken Hope]

If you're using Vista/Windows 7 you can use a usb flash drive for the RAID drivers.

 

[MrBlobby]

I'm not

 

[PCDave]

Do any of your friends/neighbours have one you can borrow? Doubt there using it these days anyway.

 

[darkwildchild79]

ouch i feel your pain damn floppy

 

[MrBlobby]

Hmm parents have one is it worth doing when the mobo only has SATA 1?

 

[Paracelsus]

Just slipstream the drivers into the into the XP image with nLite.

 

[terryuk22]

i bought a usb floppy from a well know auction site for things like this works a treat

 

[JTrickle]

I couldnt get a bootable usb solution working for raid on XP64. Bit the bullet and fished the floppy out of the cellar.

After a recent issue, I wouldnt go back to using raid on a OS booting disk, only for data storage. Loved the game loading speed and file transfer speed. But I'll be buying an SSD in the next 6 months so decided not to re-raid after being forced to rebuild from a bad sector this week.

 

[MrBlobby]

nlite sounds like the best option. I`ll have a go at that

 

[!TIMMY!]

nLite has worked fine for me in the past.

 

[jbloggs]

nlite sounds like the best option...

This is probably your best solution...

 

[MrBlobby]

Ok I've tried to slipstream the drivers into windows nlite, but it doesn't seem to have worked. When I boot windows from the Windows disk it, I press f6 to search for the drivers, however, it just says can't find floppy disk. If I do nothing. I get disk 0 on bus 0 on viamraid (MBR) or disk 0 on id 2 on viamraid (MBR). HELP !

I've a 775dual-vsta motherboard. http://www.asrock.com/mb/download.asp?Model=775Dual-VSTA&o=XP

I don't want to change from Xp as my tv card won't work etc.

Anyway any help advice would be much appreciated.

Perhaps you someone could burn the streamline the drivers for me if I've done it wrong. (I did try to put everything on the disk sound card drivers etc. but it's not got that far)

Thanks anyway

 

[malcolm]

Your board looks to have a floppy port, treat yourself to a floppy drive and hang it on the board pro-temp, you know you'll have to do this again, should be able to find one for a tenner and you'll save all the agro.

 

[TheBlackShuck15]

If you have slipstreamed them properly you shouldn't need to press f6??

Thats what I thought anyway....

 

[byteagig]

i had this problem recently and nlite never worked for me too.
what i did was install windows (xp) on an old hdd, then set up raid in the bios on the pair of disks i was using for raid.
i then booted into windows and installed the via raid tool (im sure there must be somethng similar for asrock) which made the raid array appear in windows. i then formatted the array as normal, and then cloned the original hdd to the raid array.
then boot from the raid array.
a bit long winded but it worked!

 

[MrBlobby]

What should happen ? I've never installed a RAID array before

 

[TheBlackShuck15]

Forgive me if i'm wrong but don't you slipstream the driver onto the disk, burn the new version to disk and just boot and install off of the new disk as normal??

 

[Addicted]

pretty surprised the drivers aren't on win7 (it actually seems good with raid drivers now), but you're gonna need some sort of drive!

 

[MrBlobby]

Ive XP