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Booting from Abit kr7a raid controller

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dunkster

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I bought the raid board with no intention of using raid functions, just to boot single hard disk from raid controller.

Initially I couldn't enable the raid controller without crashing. This was resolved by downloading latest Creative sound card drivers.

With raid controller enabled, I should be able to simply plug my ata100 HD into the ide3 plug and boot from the raid controller.

Is that correct?

Thanks for your help.
 
Well - I did find out how to set my hard disk as boot device at ide3 under the raid controller.

It was really pretty simple - or would have been if I had a maximum of two partitions on the drive.

In fact the HD has 4 partitions - and only C:\ and D:\ were recognized.

Then Norton Disk Doctor got into the act and warned me that my partition data was screwed up and asked me if I would like to repair the partition. Of course I would. Norton repaired partions C:\ and D:\ and left the HD with partitions E:\ and F:\ unreadable.

I then shut down and reconnected the disk to IDE1, went into the bios to revert boot sequence to original sequence and then disabled the raid controller.

Norton Rescue Disk detected the changes in HD partition information and I was able restore partitions E:\ and F:\.

Apparently, booting from ide3 with more than two partitions on the HD is a no-no.

Or - expert assistance, please - is it?

Any help?
 
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