Raid Setup Disk damaged

[Rich25]

Question here. Ive set up a raid0 on a a7n8x with dual 36gb raptors and i am formatting them for win 2000 pro. After it runs through the whole status bar up to 100% it waits a minute and then gives me the essage that it was unable to format the partition The disk may be damaged. I have tried this about 3 times now with the same results. Any ideas/ Both drives seem fine (spinning up etc) and were recognized perfectly in setting up the raid. Thanks

Rich

[Rich25]

If anyone has any ideas i'd really like to hear them, this is rather weird. i can format and install no problem on 1 of the drives ill go and try the other just to be sure the drives are fine.

Rich

[Rich25]

As an addendum, i got it to get past the error message once, and it started loading 2000 pro , it then gave me an error message and said it could not complete after it was done with the status bar. I tried formatting and installing the OS on both drives individually and they both absolutly fly through the instal procedure in about 2 minutes with no errors. I tried raid again and recieved the same error. This is driving me insane.

Rich

[FarEast]

Have you updated to the latest Bios and also the latest drivers to load durring the installation of the O/S, If you are using an old bios and new drivers this can cause problems.

Update your Mobo Biols 1st and see if that helps.

[Rich25]

Ill check on the bios version. But the drivers are the newest ones.

Rich

[Rich25]

Just checked the bios it is 1006 on a rev 1.01 board. Guess i could go to 1007 but i can only seem to find it for rev 1.03 and up boards (i guess this board was old stock or something as i only bought it 2 months ago)

Rich