Re: Trying to Create a RAID 0 volume

You'll want to boot the Windows XP CD-Rom. Then *F6* very early and very important (at setup is inspecting your system) in the setup to prevent drive controller detection, and select S to specify additional drivers. Then later you'll be prompted to insert the manufacturer supplied Windows XP driver for your drive controller in drive "A"

You'll only need the driver on the floppy. The files named oemsetup.inf, txtsetup.oem, and the *.sys file for your controller.


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"Stan Hilliard" wrote:
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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