Buzz Foster
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I'm setting up my system with RAID, and I followed the instructions (correctly I thought). Unfortunately, when I boot to my Win XP Pro 64 disk to install the OS, I get a message that Windows cannot find any hard drives, and my only option is to press F3 to exit.
My motherboard is an Asus crosshair, with an nVidia Nforce chipset, with built-in RAID. I tried to set up mirroring with striping first. I have two 500GB Hitachi deskstars, and two 1TB Hitachi deskstars. The idea was to have a single, 1.5TB mirrored RAID volume. That didn't seem to work, as all I got was a 1TB volume. So, I tried two mirrored volumes, the boot as 500GB, and the second as 1TB. The nVidia RAID bios seemed to like that.
Now, I'm stuck at this point of Windows finding no hard drives. Hmm.
Though I have not had time to read it through or try to put it into use, I found this article at the nVidia website:
nVidia RAID how-to
Is this sufficient info? Is there something else very basic I might be missing?
Any help greatly appreciated!
Buzz
My motherboard is an Asus crosshair, with an nVidia Nforce chipset, with built-in RAID. I tried to set up mirroring with striping first. I have two 500GB Hitachi deskstars, and two 1TB Hitachi deskstars. The idea was to have a single, 1.5TB mirrored RAID volume. That didn't seem to work, as all I got was a 1TB volume. So, I tried two mirrored volumes, the boot as 500GB, and the second as 1TB. The nVidia RAID bios seemed to like that.
Now, I'm stuck at this point of Windows finding no hard drives. Hmm.
Though I have not had time to read it through or try to put it into use, I found this article at the nVidia website:
nVidia RAID how-to
Is this sufficient info? Is there something else very basic I might be missing?
Any help greatly appreciated!
Buzz