P5B deluxe and installing Raid

concretecow · 7 Jan 2007 at 08:59

Hi , do i need a floppy drive to install Windows on Raid 0 with this mobo . My old motherboard needed me to press F6 during installation for the drivers.
Lee.

semi-pro waster · 7 Jan 2007 at 11:04

If you are installing Windows XP (no idea about Vista yet) then yes you do need a floppy disk, Windows would automatically recognise the SATA drive with that motherboard (e.g. the motherboard fools it into thinking it is an IDE device for installation purposes) but Raid has always needed special drivers.

concretecow · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:03

Thanks , maybe i shouldnt of given away my floppy drive then.
Is there anyway to get around this without a floppy , like slipstreaming the drivers onto the install cd.

semi-pro waster · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:10

You can try slipstreaming the drivers on and I believe it ought to work but I'm not 100%, another option is to borrow the floppy drive back (or one from someone else), alternatively don't bother with Raid0 as for most people (e.g. not working with large contiguous files like video, graphics or sound) it doesn't offer that much of a benefit.

concretecow · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:28

Thanks , heard the pro's and con's of Installing XP on Raid 0 , but thought i would give it a try and see what it feels like got 2 Seagate 7200.10Sata 320 gig and want to play with them . If i'm not impressed with it , what would be the best way to config the drives e.g.

Disk 1 :c:50 gigss for XP

concretecow · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:31

Thanks , heard the pro's and con's of Installing XP on Raid 0 , but thought i would give it a try and see what it feels like got 2 Seagate 7200.10Sata 320 gig and want to play with them . If i'm not impressed with it , what would this be the best way to config the drives :

Disk 1 :c:50 gig XP
..........d:270 Storage

Disk 2 e:10 gig page file
..........f:310 games

semi-pro waster · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:39

That should be fine, you have rather more space than you would normally need for just an installation of XP if you use 50gb but I assume that is also for any/all other programs you install? If so that seems like a reasonable amount.

concretecow · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:43

It was just going to be for XP , what sort of size would you advise.

b.cummins · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:47

for xp u always need a disc - with vista i think in most cases its automatic..

semi-pro waster · 7 Jan 2007 at 22:46

b.cummins said:
for xp u always need a disc - with vista i think in most cases its automatic..

Sorry, you've lost me here?

concretecow, if you just want to install XP and nothing else on the partition I'd probably allow something in the region of 10-15gb, most likely at the lower end since you have a separate partition for the page file. That allows for a bit of expansion and is a decent size.