Please offer some advice on setting up RAID 1 with Asus P6T Deluxe

nib95 · 14 Aug 2009 at 22:24

Essentially, I have one 320gb OS drive (Vista 64 pre-installed), and two 1TB WD Black drives I wanted to use in RAID 1 (mirror) for storage.

I set up RAID 1 with the two 1TB drives using Cntrl I in BIOS, and selected RAID mode under SATA storage configuration in the BIOS also.

However, Windows now no longer boots. And instead goes to a blue screen followed by a very quick restart just after the loading bar. Any ideas?

Do I need to install any further drivers or anything like that. Really important I get this RAID 1 set up (only on the back up, non OS drives). recently a drive of mine containing very important work died, the charge for data retrieval is daylight robbery. I just don't want this risk ever again, and I feel RAID 1 is ideal.

erolz · 14 Aug 2009 at 22:41

I think the issue here is changing to raid after the OS has been installed. If raid was set in bios when vista was installed it would have loaded the necessary drivers. Changing to raid now means that it doesnt have the right drivers, even though the boot disk is not in a raid array.

Have a look here

http://drnathan.teamhackaday.com/20...ntel-ich-raid-after-installing-windows-vista/

or reinstall windows with raid set in bios before

nib95 · 14 Aug 2009 at 22:54

Haaw man, that's annoying. Guess I'm going to have to re-install Windows lol.

erolz · 14 Aug 2009 at 22:54

Well you can try the hack as described first - seems to have worked for most people

nib95 · 14 Aug 2009 at 23:22

erolz said:
Well you can try the hack as described first - seems to have worked for most people

True. But It looks like a lot of effort. If anything, this just gives me more incentive to upgrade to Windows 7 RC, which I not only have on disk, but also have a key for. Just means I have to re-install all my applications which is a pain.