hard drive installation problem..

[curtisbouvier]

I have an ASRock Dual SataII mobo, it has two sata ports and one sataII port.

I just bought dual 320GB seagate sataII hard drives.

when i select non raid in the bios, the motherboard picks up both hard drives no problem..

when i select raid... it brings me to a screen where i can select the type of raid i want etc,

i fix it up for Raid 0 (striping and performance), than escape out for restart...

when i restart it never picks up the hard drives, neither of them, when i go into Bios, both sata drives are undetected....

So i can't proceed to install windows until my mobo can pick up the raid0 setup, any idea what I might be doing wrong here?

If i need i can just select non raid.. and install windows on 1 drive, i want raid 0 tho...

 

[PurdueRy]

F6 SATA drivers perhaps?

 

[curtisbouvier]

i have no idea, i've never done raid before, i just assumed that once you select raid in the bios, the mother board would simpley pick up 1 drive as 640GB..., but when i select raid it picks up nothing..... which is odd becuase if I boot up and dont go into the bios.. another screen comes up telling me about raid etc.

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: curtisbouvier
i have no idea, i've never done raid before, i just assumed that once you select raid in the bios, the mother board would simpley pick up 1 drive as 640GB..., but when i select raid it picks up nothing..... which is odd becuase if I boot up and dont go into the bios.. another screen comes up telling me about raid etc.

I have never done it either but if you got a RAID/SATA disk try pressing F6 during the windows install where it asks you to.

 

[curtisbouvier]

ahhh yes, I just read a guide for it, only ****** thing is I dont have a floppy lol....... floppy drives are soo done with, now i have to rip the one out of my dads computer and half ass wire it to mine just for that part of it..

it's a shame there isnt a way you can select ANY other drive instead of Just floppy...., becuase I could easily load those files onto a compact flash memory card and access it from my USB2.0 memory dock, which my mother board picks up in the bios.