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RAID + XP Setup problems
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| Audigy7 |
So, my friend recently torpedo'd his computer by using Partition Magic on a Striped RAID hdd setup. I got the job of trying to fix it all. After stuggling to find the drivers so XP setup could actually see the hdd's, it now says that there are no xp compatible partitions, even after I format them to NTFS.
Any help would be aprecciated as I'm a n00b when it comes to RAID. |
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| Cloudburst |
I'm not l33t h4x when it comes to this, but I do know you need a floppy disk with raid drivers for your hdd when you install WinXP (press F5 when the install prompts so).
Then again I don't know what your friends wants to do or what he did so just ignore me. :D |
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| Audigy7 |
| I got past that part, took me forever to find the drivers though. |
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| igottaknow |
| if you want a raid setup buy a decent controller card ($200-300) built in mobo ones sux. |
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| Audigy7 |
| I don't think he has the money for a RAID controller nor would he know how to install or use it. |
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| Audigy7 |
| He bought his computer from ABS and that's the way it came. I'd really like to just get his damn computer up and running again as he wont stfu about it. |
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| Magnus |
| The Raid card or controller itself should have its own BIOS you enter at startup. This is independant of the motherboard's BIOS. Enter this BIOS and make sure the hard drives are seen here properly first. As for as everything else, it sounds like your doing things correctly by finding the correct driver disk for use when the XP install first takes place. Good luck. |
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| kid nyce |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nou
why does he want raid in the first place?
RAID 0 is stupid anyways, "oh wow it looks like I have one hard drive"
One gets ed, you lose both sides.
Or does he want it to be redundent? I don't really see a need unless he has super super never can get back important data on there... |
striping is not stupid
it decreases the read time if both drives are reading simultaneously
hence striping takes a DATA VOLUME and distributes the bits to both drives where the OS is being read by both drives instead of 1 drive reading the whole OS.
raid array is for large volume of disks (server side) |
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