I have a Gigabye P35-DS3R board and have the following hard drives:
1 - 150 gb dirve, windows 7 and programs (Boot Drive)
1 - 74 gb drive, scratch drive for Adobe Photoshop
3 - 500 gb drives, Raid 5 system run off the motherboard ports
The boot drive crashed, suddenly appeared as raw. I went into bios and switched turned the raid off and pulled the cables from the 3 raid drives. Wasn't sure if there was a virus or something. So I pulled it and formated the 74 gb drive and installed windows 7 on it. I went back into the bios and turned the Raid on and my drives do show up but windows won't boot up. From what I am reading it sounds like I have to turn the raid on and then install the windows 7? Or is there a way to install the Intel Matrix program afterwards? I tried while just running w7 and raid turned off, but it says the computer doesn't meet the minimum requirements and doesn't install it. So I assume it is looking for a raid system to install?? Any ideas?
Also, I am wanting to increase the size of the Raid system and is it as easy as pulling one of the drives and rebuilding that drive on a 1 tb drive and doing that untill all of the 500 gb drives have been replaced with 1 tb drives? I know when I just replace one 500 with a 1 TB drive it will still look at it as a 500 gb drive, right?
Thanks...
1 - 150 gb dirve, windows 7 and programs (Boot Drive)
1 - 74 gb drive, scratch drive for Adobe Photoshop
3 - 500 gb drives, Raid 5 system run off the motherboard ports
The boot drive crashed, suddenly appeared as raw. I went into bios and switched turned the raid off and pulled the cables from the 3 raid drives. Wasn't sure if there was a virus or something. So I pulled it and formated the 74 gb drive and installed windows 7 on it. I went back into the bios and turned the Raid on and my drives do show up but windows won't boot up. From what I am reading it sounds like I have to turn the raid on and then install the windows 7? Or is there a way to install the Intel Matrix program afterwards? I tried while just running w7 and raid turned off, but it says the computer doesn't meet the minimum requirements and doesn't install it. So I assume it is looking for a raid system to install?? Any ideas?
Also, I am wanting to increase the size of the Raid system and is it as easy as pulling one of the drives and rebuilding that drive on a 1 tb drive and doing that untill all of the 500 gb drives have been replaced with 1 tb drives? I know when I just replace one 500 with a 1 TB drive it will still look at it as a 500 gb drive, right?
Thanks...
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