Re: 2nd XP install
From: Guille (Here_at_nu.com)
Date: 07/03/04
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Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 17:56:13 +0200
THanks, Martin,
The computer came with 1 SATA disk 200Gb
I added my old ATA 80 Gb to the "blue" bus, and during booting I ctrl+F it,
and automatically added the IDE to the RAID.
Everything worked perfect. No mirroring. Each HD with its own size and data,
etc...
Someboy strongly recommended me to undo that. So I installed the IDE as
slave to my DVD.
Now the IDE shows up as disk 1, not 2 anymore. Booting takes longer, also.
Bios has IDE "undetected", because if I enable it, during booting i have
"missing NTLDR, reboot".
I don't know what to do.... everything was working fine in RAID but some
people advised me to change that....
Can i have more advice, please?
Thanks,
Guille
"martin" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2512c01c4609a$8a041550$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I have done close to what your trying before, except the
> raid part. First, the OS install, I think the only thing
> you can bet on is the results will vary. I think the
> worst that will happen, is when you boot, the blue screen
> for 'Check Disk' will appear. No big deal, just get into
> the system as usual, and run 'chkdsk', and 'sfc /scannow'
> to be safe. If you just throw in the disk and cross your
> fingers, you might have to alter the boot.ini ....again,
> no big deal.
> The worst that could possibly happen is ya lose
> everything and start again. As long as what's important
> is backed up (sorry to repeat myself), no biggie.
>
> The next part, RAID 1 is mirroring one hard drive to
> another, so how can that be, when one has two partitions
> and the other has four?
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi!
> >I've got 2 HD's
> >
> >1- Has 4 partitions (C, D, E, F)
> >2- Has 2 (G, H)
> >
> >1 is a SATA disk
> >2 is IDE, but in Strip array with 1
> >
> >I'd like to install a second XP for testing, ideally in G
> >When i boot with WinXP CD and after loading the RAID 378
> drivers, the
> >install program sees the 2nd HD (G, H) as D, H (I
> immagine it renames G to D
> >because it is the other primary partition...
> >
> >The question: is it convenient to install on G or rather
> create a new
> >primary partition in 1?
> >Second question: Since the install sees G as D, would
> that be a problem?
> >Would G be renamed after the install?
> >
> >.... can i have some advice?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Guille
> >
> >
> >.
> >
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