How to REinstall XP on RAID 0? - Tech Support Forums

Glitched · March 16th, 2005, 06:38 PM

PC:
2 SATA WD 74gb Raptor hard drives (already in a RAID 0 array)
1 80gb IDE hard drive
P4C800-E Deluxe Motherboard
Pentium 4 2.6ghz
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So I deleted the (one) partition I had been using for the past year on my RAID 0 hard drives. Using partition magic 8.0, I then created a Primary partition to install windows XP Pro on, and created a logical partition (inside an extended primary) for my personal. After that, I restarted the computer, set the boot setup in the order of CD-ROM - RAID0 hdds - Floppy Drive, booted up through the windows xp cd, and couldn't find the RAID 0 hard drive partitions I had created when windows asked me which partition I wanted to install windows xp onto. I only saw my IDE partitions...

How do I install Windows XP Pro onto my RAID 0 hard drives? As far as I can tell, they are still in that array because when I go to My Computer, I see the 2 empty partitions I had created for the RAID 0's on top of the ones I'm currently running on the IDE.

..should I simply not be trying to configure my RAID 0 hard drives with one windows xp partition and one data partition? Is there a knowticable performance boost at all if I was actually able to install windows on my designated windows partition?

If I just went back to one huge primary partition for my RAID's will windows knowtice that partition when it asks for which partition I want to install windows on?

Thanks

EDIT: I just updated my motherboard to its latest version but windows xp still doesn't detect the partitions stored on the RAID's

EDIT2: In case you were wondering, NO I did not delete my hard drive partition for fun! It was getting more and more corrupted and kept getting windows errors practically every day so I got fed up with it and decided I'd reformat it like I did a few times in the past with my IDE hard drive... but I've never had this problem before.

sechs · March 17th, 2005, 12:38 AM

Did you hit F6 and give the RAID controller drivers to the Windows installer? If not, it doesn't see it because it doesn't know what it is.

Glitched · March 17th, 2005, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by sechs

Did you hit F6 and give the RAID controller drivers to the Windows installer? If not, it doesn't see it because it doesn't know what it is.

Good call. I forgot about that, will try it now.
Thanks!

Glitched · March 17th, 2005, 07:39 PM

Ok, I'm now typing this on my raid hard drives

One thing though...
I hit f6, and gave it a Promise Controller and Intel Application Accelerator floppy. Selected the raid partition to install xp too, and all that good stuff.
After I did that, the Promise controller floppy was left in my computer during the first few seconds when windows was installing. After I saw it took a few files out of that floppy 1-5% into the installation, I wondered how it would do the same with the Intel Application Accelerator driver, so I took out the Promise controller floppy and put in the Intel one, but windows didnt seem to do anything with the floppy after that. Regardless, I left the Intel floppy in until windows said it was going to restart and to remove anything in drive A: (floppy drive).
Right now, theres no sign of an Intel Application Accelerator drive(s) on my computer. In Device Manager, under the category "SCSI and RAID Controllers" it just says:

WinXP Promise FastTrak 378 (tm) Controller
WinXP Promise RAID Console SCSI Processor Device

Shouldn't Intel Application Accelerator be in there? Did I mess up with those floppies when I was installing windows or something?

sechs · March 18th, 2005, 05:37 PM

Even if it's not installed, all you have to do is select the the device and install the proper drivers.

Glitched · March 18th, 2005, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by sechs

Even if it's not installed, all you have to do is select the the device and install the proper drivers.

Sorry... I don't know what you mean by that. Besides maybe the Intel app. acc., what other drivers are there to install? Select the device? What device?

I'm still technically challanged :|

sechs · March 19th, 2005, 02:41 PM

Just instal the Intel crap after the fact. Follow the instructions.

Glitched · March 19th, 2005, 03:33 PM

I tried, as it was starting up the installer it came back with "Incompatible hardware. This software is not supported on this chipset. Please select 'Yes' to view the Readme file for a list of supported products. Refer to section 2 titled 'System Requirements'.