Re: Trying to Create a RAID 0 volume

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:04:32 -0700, "Dave Patrick"
<DSPatrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You're welcome. Glad to hear it's sorted.

OOPs, I spoke too soon. I got past that roadblock only to run into
another.

I created a RAID volume in the controller bios but Windows XP Pro
Setup cannot find it.

Setup fails here: "To set up Windows XP now, press enter."

I press ENTER and get this message: "Setup did not find any hard disk
drives installed on your computer."

This is how I created the 500 GB RAID volume:
CTRL+A -->ALi RAID Bios Setup Utility
Set stripe size = 64K
Set RAID 0
Select HDD1 and HDD2 (250 GB each)
ESC

At reboot I checked the RAID Bios Setup Utility again to be sure that
the 500 GB volume was still there. Yes.

One HDD was formatted from when I first installed Windows without
RAID. Could it be that only one of the two 250 GB HDDs is formatted?

I did not see any options in the RAID setup utility to format or set
partitions. Does that come later in Windows Setup?

What bios settings might I have missed, or what installation steps
might I have left out?

.

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