Installing RAID ... Help needed


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Last night I installed my 4 Hard Disks and i enabled my onboard raid.

When i got into the raid configuration all my hard disks where there :(

Then i created an array in which the two master drives were in it.

Then i formated the array and i tried to install winxp.

Everything were going fine untill the 2nd restart. then i got a blue screen which says that my computer has to be shutted down and that something is wrong.

The blue screen was talking about an installed antivirus or a new drive.

Has anyone got a clue on what to do OR can someone explain to me the way RAID is installed ?

If i deleted again the arrays will my drives work as an individual?

Thank you in advance for your help :cross:

MSI K7T266 Pro2

AthlonXP 1800+

512 DDR Ram

Asus V7100 64 MB Graphic Card

Sb Live 1024 Sound Card

Umax Astra SCSi Scanner

4 HD All Seagate 3 20Gb (5400RPM) 30GB (5400RPM) 40GB (7200RPM) 80GB (5400RPM)

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Do you want to make one big drive out of all the harddisks or do you really want something like raid 5 (to secure your data)

The problem could be a driver (raid controller) problem in winxp or maybe you need to upgrade the bios on your raid controller. I suggest you check the raid controller manufacturers website to see how well XP is supported

Not sure if winXP has this (think it does) but you can use 'striping' or 'spanning' in XP to get one big drive. (There's limited support for raid 5 in win2k)

Thanks for sharing with me your solutions.

Simply do an array for every single drive

How can i do this?

If i delete the array and boot from the raid will my pc boot?

I think the blue screen appeared after i installed winxp pro.

When the 2nd restart came i got the blue screen.

But what i found weird it was when i did the array.

My 2 masters were the 40gb and the 20gb. The first time on the array showed 20 gb for the array and the 2nd 40.

So i think fredo is right but i have to try it tonoigt and see what i get.

My question is :

If i dont make an array will my raid work properly as lets say the normal ide? will it find my drives as an individual drive?

thanks once more for your help.

I am sure there is no any problems with my raid.

The raid found my drives im sure about it.

The problem i think is when is trying to install the xp.

Im not sure but i think with the array i did.... there is a problem when it tries to boot. It might confusing the drives i dont know exactly,

When u said to make each one as a single array what do u mean?

How can this be done?

Can u explain me veru brief?

Is there someone who knows or tried to do what i want to do?

If i dont make an array and i just boot from the rais will this work out?

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Originally posted by SouL2kEEp

i want to have 5 seperate HDdrives ! - individuals

NOT 1 big drive !

anyone else ?

I'm confused, 5 seperate drives from 4, that's gotta be some neat RAID controller. And why use RAID anyway if you want all the drives seperate, is it just me, or am I missing something fundamental

Soul it depends on your raid configurator, actually it should be quite similar to the one on Compaqs, IBMs and Fujitsu-Siemens.

On the array creator create an array for the disk1, then another array for the disk2 and so on. As I said, without having a look I can't say anything for sure (and as I said on an earlier post I never used ide raid controllers, just scsi), anyway the procedure is simple. Just give a look at it, I think you don't have anything on your drives, so why bother about another partitioning? :D

Elgato, I was asking that to myself too, but I preferred not to tell anything! :p

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Originally posted by SouL2kEEp

If i said 5 drives it was a mistake.

I have 4 Hard Disks thefore there are 4 drives.

I have and 2 roms on the normal ide cables which i think they have nothing to do with the raid.

OK, so If you just want to use the 4 HD's as they are then turn of the RAID and just use as a standard controller, you wont gain anything by having RAID on if you aren't actually going to use it.

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