two 300gb maxtor satas: RAID 0. need help pls
I'm hoping for some help here, I read through the posts but couldn't find an answer to my problem so here goes...
I have a Maxtor Diamondmax 10 300Gb SATA HDD in my rig and I just got another one today, I installed it fine and it has been recognised by windows (disk management). The problem is trying to get RAID 0 set up properly, its doing my nut now big time. I have a Gigabyte K8N-SLi mobo.
The jist is this... i go to "intergrated peripherals" in bios and enable "IDE/RAID Function" which is okay, then reboot and wait for "RAID Setup Utility" which I go into and setup a new striped array with my two drives. The manual says to set the array to "boot" which i've done. Now here comes the problem...
After the POST the RAID 0 array is recognised and marked as "healthy" after a few seconds I get the following messages:
[PHP]
Verifying DMI Pool Data.....
Boot from CD/DVD:
NVIDIA Boot Agent 201.0462
Copyright 2001-2004 NVIDIA Corporation
Copyright "blah blah" Intel Corporation[/PHP]
now after around 1 minute of waiting here i get the following...
[PHP]PXE-E61, media test cable, check cable
PXE-MOF, Exit Boot Agent
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER[/PHP]
And thats it.. I'm completely stumped as to where to go from here and would appreciate anyone of you ppl throwing me a bone here, even if its just a suggestion. I would be grateful for ANY advice. TIA.
richy
I have a Maxtor Diamondmax 10 300Gb SATA HDD in my rig and I just got another one today, I installed it fine and it has been recognised by windows (disk management). The problem is trying to get RAID 0 set up properly, its doing my nut now big time. I have a Gigabyte K8N-SLi mobo.
The jist is this... i go to "intergrated peripherals" in bios and enable "IDE/RAID Function" which is okay, then reboot and wait for "RAID Setup Utility" which I go into and setup a new striped array with my two drives. The manual says to set the array to "boot" which i've done. Now here comes the problem...
After the POST the RAID 0 array is recognised and marked as "healthy" after a few seconds I get the following messages:
[PHP]
Verifying DMI Pool Data.....
Boot from CD/DVD:
NVIDIA Boot Agent 201.0462
Copyright 2001-2004 NVIDIA Corporation
Copyright "blah blah" Intel Corporation[/PHP]
now after around 1 minute of waiting here i get the following...
[PHP]PXE-E61, media test cable, check cable
PXE-MOF, Exit Boot Agent
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER[/PHP]
And thats it.. I'm completely stumped as to where to go from here and would appreciate anyone of you ppl throwing me a bone here, even if its just a suggestion. I would be grateful for ANY advice. TIA.
richy
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If this is mandatory as you say, why would there be a choice here, are you sure about this?
edit: Assuming you have data on there you want to save
Are you sure the solution isn't a little more simple than this? I mean it seems as if its just a matter of getting the copy of windows that i have to boot properly from my original when the 2 hdds are in RAID 0...
Why can I not just use the array of two hdds and boot the copy of windows that I already have on my original hdd? Are you sure this is impossible?
Just so I've got this straight, if in the future I add a third hdd to the array, all of the data on the previous two hdds in the array will become unusable as a reinstall of windows will be needed? That seems very impractical.
I mean no disrespect in questioning your advice, its just I'm very new to the whole RAID thing..
PS. My original drive is still 100% fine, I'm using it right now.
And if you want any proformence increase you need to format as your data is not structuered in the correct way.
Heres a link to the wikipedia artical for Raid
having trouble remembering which drivers i used for the raid, think it was sil3114... oh well... thanks anyway mate.