O.S installed on a raid controller

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my friend has just built his own p.c (pretty cheap one), and he found the o.s would not install under the IDE option in the BIOS, so he installed in under the other option RAID, and it works perfect, the problem comes now when he adds another HDD, the machine will boot and say HDD failure insert system disk, which he hasnt got. and if he switches the BIOS to IDE the system will load XP then shutdown due to a technical error that comes up with the blue screen.

any ideas on how he can either get it back to IDE (which is starnge becuase he uses sata HDD's)

and get his other hdd's installed and working :S

lol if you want any more specifics just ask :)
 
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pentium D 2.66ghz
an MSI board (dont really know 7 something)
a 320gb samsung hdd and a 160gb seagate hdd
XFX 4850 XXX CARD
1GB RAM (cheap stuff)
 
JonJ678 said:
Bad first choice I fear, he should have installed as ahci not as raid.
Raid is only a good idea when, well, using raid :)

sata is an ide drive. pata is also an ide drive.
pata is the ribbon cables, but for some reason everyone calls pata drives ide. enhanced ide mode is therefore fine for sata drives.

Best answer would be to reinstall using ahci. Second best, and quicker + easier is to install the drivers xp needs to run from an ide drive then change the setting in the bios. This way it'll get past the blue screen
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the o.s wouldnt install in ide mode, it just hanged on the first install part of xp pro, on the part where it load windows executive lol

he hasnt got the install cd anymore, so the only choice aas u say is to install the driver but where to download them lol ?
 
ubuntu installs fine he had that before but needed adobe suites. he tried to xp install disks, the first he sent back becuase it hanged and this one he mucked about with and did the RAID thing lol, a think a new mobo is in order he'll jus have to pay a bit lol
 
very off topic but quite true lol, he decided on the parts himself and only told me after he had ordered them lol

im going to take it all of his hands and rebuild it for him properly lol
 
i no when i saw it the first thing i said was 'you idiot'

im changing my i7 processor soon, i might see if he can stretch a bit to a cheap x58 board and some cheapish ddr3 ram and stick my old i7 in there
 
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