- Sep 29, 2003
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I have an EVGA X58 board and two Seagate Barracuda drives.
I set up raid on the motherboard and then set up a raid0 volume using both drives. I reboot and put in my Windows XP cd and start the installation process. Shortly after Windows setup, I get a blue screen and can't go on. I noticed that during set up it mentions something about pressing f6 to install 3rd party riad drivers, but I dont know if I need to do that. Shouldn't the OS see the raid0 volume as one hd?
I know my hardware works because I previously only had one drive and I installed XP and had everything working. I also have Vista Home, but its an upgrade, so I have to install XP before I can upgrade to Vista, so I cant just start installing Vista, which probably has the drivers I need for my problem.
I know that I have the ability to make a raid floppy disk using my EVGA driver cd, but I dont have a floppy drive and never can get them to work. Now that I think of it, the X58 board doesnt even have a floppy cable input...wtf?? I guess I could try putting it on a cd and see if I can load the raid drivers (if thats even what they are) during my XP installation.
This is the first time I have ever set up raid on a system, and now I'm stuck.
any help is appreciated.
I set up raid on the motherboard and then set up a raid0 volume using both drives. I reboot and put in my Windows XP cd and start the installation process. Shortly after Windows setup, I get a blue screen and can't go on. I noticed that during set up it mentions something about pressing f6 to install 3rd party riad drivers, but I dont know if I need to do that. Shouldn't the OS see the raid0 volume as one hd?
I know my hardware works because I previously only had one drive and I installed XP and had everything working. I also have Vista Home, but its an upgrade, so I have to install XP before I can upgrade to Vista, so I cant just start installing Vista, which probably has the drivers I need for my problem.
I know that I have the ability to make a raid floppy disk using my EVGA driver cd, but I dont have a floppy drive and never can get them to work. Now that I think of it, the X58 board doesnt even have a floppy cable input...wtf?? I guess I could try putting it on a cd and see if I can load the raid drivers (if thats even what they are) during my XP installation.
This is the first time I have ever set up raid on a system, and now I'm stuck.
any help is appreciated.
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