Raid 0 Raptor Problem Help

leoncc · 21 Nov 2007 at 08:32

Hi all, recently decided to install a fresh copy of windows xp on my Raid 0 array but keep running into a weird problem, i have installed Raid 0 countless times, ive checked both of the drives with the western digital diagnosis tool and it has found no errors!

Anyway i am trying to set the cluster size and striping block to 16k its all fine in bios and the raid array but when i boot into windows on my old ide drive and check in disk management it keeps showing the array as 2 seperate disks, in the past it has always shown it as one and i proceed to format it with the desired cluster size but this time it just keeps showing them like this, heres some screenshots... any ideas? :confused:

rpstewart · 21 Nov 2007 at 09:29

You sure that you've got the correct NVidia chipset drivers installed in Windows?

The two SATA ports which have RAID disabled jump out but that must be a red herring - you wouldn't have been able to create the array without enabling RAID mode on the correct ports.

Which board are you using?

leoncc · 21 Nov 2007 at 12:40

It is a DFI LanParty UT nForce 3 Ultra-D

I have 4 SATA ports on the motherboard, the raptors are on the SATA I ports, should i try moving them onto the SATA II ones?

Olly · 21 Nov 2007 at 12:52

weird, try right clicking where it says disk 1 and disk 2 in disk management and clicking initialise disk.

leoncc · 21 Nov 2007 at 13:14

Well after the 100th reboot and clearing cmos it suddenly decided to see the raid array as one drive! *crosses fingers* all looks fine proceeding to install windows leaving file system intact! did NVIDIA just like skip supporting nForce 3 or something? because it has forever caused me problems :mad:

leoncc · 21 Nov 2007 at 13:18

I did re-install the chipset drivers again just through device manager not using the setup, must have just been a dodgy install not to sure really, if i try to install the latest nForce 3 from NVIDIA it BSODs lol to anyone out there nForce 3 is ****

leoncc · 21 Nov 2007 at 13:26

Hmm, u have to use a WinXP SP1 CD to install Raid 0 with a different cluster size right? im getting Disk Read Error after the first reboot, and its not the floppy disk.

leoncc · 21 Nov 2007 at 14:42

New problem now :confused:

raid installed fine, into windows, proceed to install chipset drivers reboot and now i keep getting dis read error, the boot up priority is fine