Problem: Installing extra 120 GB IDE on RAID system corrupts MFT
Problem: Installing extra 120 GB IDE on RAID system corrupts MFT
I am using a dual 60 GB Maxtor RAID 0 array and am trying to install an extra single 120 gb seagate drive.
The raids array is of course connecteed via the RAID ports on the mainboard.
The new HDD is connected to IDE 1.
The 120 GB drive is detected fine, shows up in disk manager or partition magic as the first drive (drive 0 or 1 respectively) whereas the raid array shows up as the second dick (drive 1 or 2 respectively).
WinXP detects the new HDD without any problem. I can format them and apply drive letters.
However when I reboot windows is corrupted and I get messages saying that the $mft cannot be saved.
As soon as I disconnect the hdd this problem stops.
I have had other smaller ide drives running in addition to the raid array.. they caused a few problems, mainly due to the fact that they wanted to occupy the c: position.
Can anyone help?
I am using a dual 60 GB Maxtor RAID 0 array and am trying to install an extra single 120 gb seagate drive.
The raids array is of course connecteed via the RAID ports on the mainboard.
The new HDD is connected to IDE 1.
The 120 GB drive is detected fine, shows up in disk manager or partition magic as the first drive (drive 0 or 1 respectively) whereas the raid array shows up as the second dick (drive 1 or 2 respectively).
WinXP detects the new HDD without any problem. I can format them and apply drive letters.
However when I reboot windows is corrupted and I get messages saying that the $mft cannot be saved.
As soon as I disconnect the hdd this problem stops.
I have had other smaller ide drives running in addition to the raid array.. they caused a few problems, mainly due to the fact that they wanted to occupy the c: position.
Can anyone help?
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Was forced to as I am self-employed and need it to work,earn money and generally survive.
Not good when computer dies and you cant meet deadlines.
In any case, someone mentioned setting SCSI to boot first.
However I already had all the boot devices set to ATA RAID.
Instead I simply reinstalled windows instead of using an image.
Now everything is working perfectly.
LOL.
..I had been considering reinstalling windows for some time anyway.
Now I can make a nice, clean fresh image for this configuration too. Heh.
Just a pity that such a drastic solution was necessary.