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- Jul 20, 2006
It's "Choose Your Own Adventure Night" here at OCF...
I'm new to SATA in general... and certainly new to RAID. (I was also the last person on earth to switch from Analog to Digital.)
One thing always puzzled me: Why is everyone always talking about installing the RAID drivers before installing windows?
A few things occurred to me during my voyage of infinite discovery.
Given that you've already got windows installed on some hard drive or another and you just want to setup a Matrix RAID array on two or more separate drives that you just bought:
1. You will Have to enable RAID over the entire SATA bus.
2. Doing so will in no way harm your windows install or any of the files on its hard drive.
3. You will not be able to boot into windows.
Windows XP will just reboot itself.
Windows Vista will BSOD.
Charming really.
I need to pause here to tell you, while this may be low amongst the "Craziest **** I've ever seen on a computer" ...it still ranks.
First I was puzzled as to why you could've just setup drives individually in the bios to run as IDE or RAID. Then I was confused as to why... if those drives are already marked as Non-RAID... I wouldn't be able to boot to them.
There are ways... There are ways.
Here's a start:
http://drnathan.teamhackaday.com/20...ntel-ich-raid-after-installing-windows-vista/
He's not the first guy to come up with that... but after I get this working (since what he suggested didn't work for me) I'll explain exactly how I did it.
I'm new to SATA in general... and certainly new to RAID. (I was also the last person on earth to switch from Analog to Digital.)
One thing always puzzled me: Why is everyone always talking about installing the RAID drivers before installing windows?
A few things occurred to me during my voyage of infinite discovery.
Given that you've already got windows installed on some hard drive or another and you just want to setup a Matrix RAID array on two or more separate drives that you just bought:
1. You will Have to enable RAID over the entire SATA bus.
2. Doing so will in no way harm your windows install or any of the files on its hard drive.
3. You will not be able to boot into windows.
Windows XP will just reboot itself.
Windows Vista will BSOD.
Charming really.
I need to pause here to tell you, while this may be low amongst the "Craziest **** I've ever seen on a computer" ...it still ranks.
First I was puzzled as to why you could've just setup drives individually in the bios to run as IDE or RAID. Then I was confused as to why... if those drives are already marked as Non-RAID... I wouldn't be able to boot to them.
There are ways... There are ways.
Here's a start:
http://drnathan.teamhackaday.com/20...ntel-ich-raid-after-installing-windows-vista/
He's not the first guy to come up with that... but after I get this working (since what he suggested didn't work for me) I'll explain exactly how I did it.