SATA raid problems

Mr Spoon

Mr Spoon

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just installed my new motherboard (a8n32-sli deluxe) and having problems setting up a sata raid as a boot disk.
I have enabled RAID in the main bios and enabled the 2 drives there.
When i go into the MediaShield raid setup page (F10), I can select the raid ok but when I get back to the main screen " Set Boot" is disabled and under "Boot" it shows "N/A"
"[N] New Array" is also disabled.

I tried installing XP but because the disk is not set as a boot drive it wont install the boot files.

any ideas :confused:
 
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no cause the manual tells you to create the raid using the nvidia raid bios screens and then select the raid as bootable. then install windows.
ive tried all combinations. not sure what else to do. unless I just ditch the RAID idea.
does RAID use much CPU usage anyway ?
 
yea I can create the RAID, and can even format it from a dos boot disk (FAT32), the weird thing is that it is extemely quick to format, like 5 - 10 seconds.

If i get XP to format it in NTFS it takes ages.

Then I can install windows but it doesnt copy the boot up files, and when i reboot it says "missing NTLDR", i check the contents of C:\ (when it was fat32) and a windows folder is there looking complete, but no other files in root c:\
 
yea the option is there, the raided disk 138Gb but it still doesnt allow me to set it bootable in the (F10) RAID controller screen.
 
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