HELP with 74Gb Raptor install PLEASE!!

[Corey0808]

Ok like everyone else on this forum I'm having trouble installing my Raptor 74Gb harddrive. As you can see in my signature I have an Abit NF7-S V2.0 motherboard. I have everything plugged in and I can get into the SATA ROM BIOS, where it picks up the single harddrive. When I try and start the XP install when I press F6 it does nothing. But it tells me it can't find any drives and I can proceed with selecting the driver from my floppy. Then it picks it up and I can begin copying files to it. Once this is done and the restart begins is where I start to have problems. After it copies files the system won't pick up the SATA drive as a boot device.

I have the boot order set at the following Floppy -> CDROM -> SATA

This is what my screen looks like

Verifying DMI Pool Data ...........
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM:
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

if I insert the windows CD it starts the whole process over again and I have the same problem.

How do I get the motherboard to boot off of the SATA drive to finish the installation of windows? Please help! Thanks!

 

[John]

Make sure you have the SATA raid and boot rom enabled in the bios.

 

[MDE]

Try setting SATA as the first boot option.

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

Make sure you have the raptor sata channel as the boot option. Remember, RAID 0 has been shown to be negligibly faster at best than two independent drives on home single user computers

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: michaelpatrick33
Don't put the raptors in a raid array unless it is raid 1 for redundancy because it has been pretty much proven in real world applications there is no benefit. Check out anandtech and storagereview for starters. Subjective feel and marketing has won out over hard empirical data

Put your spectacles on Captain Know-it-all, he has a single Raptor.

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

missed that. I am just passing on what I saw. I was not passing judgement mister condescending ass

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: michaelpatrick33
missed that. I am just passing on what I saw. I was not passing judgement mister condescending ass

That's the nicest thing anyone has said to me all day. Thank you .

 

[Corey0808]

I've actually fixed the problem. I don't know exactly what I did it was one of two things. One thing I did was take the jumper completely off of the Harddrive completely. I also did a low level format through the RAID BIOS. After that windows picked up the drive. I hope this can help others if they need it. Thanks for the help guys!