OK, I got a BIOSTAR GF8100 M2+ SE, and it's the first RAID system I have ever had. It was hell trying to even get Vista on the damn thing and I had to download a non SP1 disk and add SP1 later to even get it to accept the SATA RAID drivers at all. Thing is though that in all the time before that I was using an XP install with RAID mode turned off. So now I have VISTA and RAID and that works fine, but I would like to have XP to dual boot with, but I'd rather not have to buy another disk to make that possible, since XP cannot even utilize this dual core 64bit system anyway, it's just that sometimes you find yourself needing XP right? (Especially if your livelihood is fixing people's computers like mine is.)
Also the damn thing keeps asking me what to do about the non array drives even though they are formatted and have stuff on them and I found out the hard way that it is very easy to kill a drive's bootability with one wrong step. Is it possible to have Vista on two 160s striped, and XP on a single SATA drive, or am I just going to have to break down and pair the other drive up? I wanted to also throw in Ubuntu, and perhaps Hackintosh OSX, but there isn't room in the case if it can't be done on single drives.
It's a wonder I have been at this as long as I have and never really ran into a RAID system before! Thanks in advance.....!
Also the damn thing keeps asking me what to do about the non array drives even though they are formatted and have stuff on them and I found out the hard way that it is very easy to kill a drive's bootability with one wrong step. Is it possible to have Vista on two 160s striped, and XP on a single SATA drive, or am I just going to have to break down and pair the other drive up? I wanted to also throw in Ubuntu, and perhaps Hackintosh OSX, but there isn't room in the case if it can't be done on single drives.
It's a wonder I have been at this as long as I have and never really ran into a RAID system before! Thanks in advance.....!
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