Installing WinXP on RAID 0 array together with non-RAID disks
- From: Annatjie <Annatjie.2m7w7h@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:01:49 +0530
Hello
I built a new system consisting among others of an Intel Bad Axe 2
motherboard and four HDD's - two WD 150GB Raptors and two WD 500GB
Caviars. I connected the four HDD's to the Intel Matrix RAID controller
as follows:
Channel 0 - Raptor
Channel 1 - Raptor
Channel 2 - Caviar
Channel 3 - Caviar
My setup was detected correctly by the BIOS. I then proceeded to setup
a RAID 0 array in the Intel Matrix RAID controller's BIOS by pressing
Ctrl+I during startup. I created a single RAID 0 array consisting of
the two Raptors. I left the two Caviars as non-RAID disks.
When I installed Windows XP Pro SP2 I partitioned the RAID volume as
drive C:\, the Caviar on Channel 2 as drive D:\, and the Caviar on
Channel 3 as drive E:\. However, when I selected to install Windows on
drive C:\, I received a message that Windows need to install some
installation files on drive D:\. Windows then formatted drive D:\ as
NTFS and then formatted drive C:\ as NTFS.
After installation Windows reported drive C:\ as being the 'Boot' drive
and drive D:\ being the 'System' drive. The problem is drive D:\ is
suppose to be a data drive and if I format drive C:\ in the future I
will lose my data on drive D:\ as it will automatically be formatted
along with drive C:\ as has happened first time around.
What did I do wrong? How can I prevent Windows from installing files to
the non-RAID drives during installation?
Thanks
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