Raid 0 question

Jack_D · 18 Sep 2008 at 20:11

hello again,

I have laid my hands on a pair of 32gig raptor hard disks, and am attempting to set up a raid 0 array with them. Currently my machine is booting from another sata drive, but I am encountering problems when setting up the raid. I have a asus p5q pro mobo btw.

when i set up the system for a raid sata = raid, windows fails to boot. if i reset this to ide mode windows will boot. Can anyone suggest what is going wrong, is it the fact that windows wasn't installed initially with a raid set up installed?

thanks guys?

Pandobear · 18 Sep 2008 at 21:17

your problem is likely to be when you set up the raid array you are changing the drivers required for the hdd controller, and as you had installed windows on your old drive in ide mode you need to stay in this mode for windows to boot. if you have two controllers on your board, set up the raid 0 on the other controller, it will likely work fine then, some mainboard defaults to any new drive as the 'boot' drive, which is also worth looking out for.

MaX_PoWah · 23 Sep 2008 at 20:46

this is happening to me as well, im going to install the matrix raid drivers and see if that helps..

edit... tried to install the drivers and it says this computer does not meet the minimum requirements

MaX_PoWah · 23 Sep 2008 at 20:54

after some more googling it seems you actully have to have raid setup in your bios before the software will let you install it... how im supposed to do that i dont know tho because as soon as i set up a raid array windows wont boot.

Im using 2 re3's by the way, is my only option to do a fresh install of windows ? i was planning on just copying everything to the new array but i dont think its going to let me do it...

MaX_PoWah · 24 Sep 2008 at 01:03

this is doing my head in, can anbody help ? i just want to get into windows with my raid array intact, id read that using a vista cd and installing drivers using the repair option might work but it still flakes out every time untill i set it back to ide mode!

Farore · 24 Sep 2008 at 06:35

Email me, and I could help you with this.

rpstewart · 24 Sep 2008 at 09:29

MaX_PoWah said:
this is doing my head in, can anbody help ? i just want to get into windows with my raid array intact, id read that using a vista cd and installing drivers using the repair option might work but it still flakes out every time untill i set it back to ide mode!

Do you have a second SATA controller on your motherboard?

If you do:

Move the boot drive to the second controller
Reboot the PC & make sure everythign is still ok
Reboot and set the Intel ports to RAID mode
Let Windows recognise the new controller and load the drivers
Shutdown and move the boot drive back to the Intel ports
Startup and check everything's ok
Shutdown, add the new drives
Start the PC, create the RAID0 array and start Windows, check all is well