Need help setting up two WD Raptor HDs in RAID-0 on P4P800 Deluxe. How do I Fdisk it?

[Flakk]

When I run fdisk, it shows TWO drives (even tho they are in raid-0).. one sized at 5gb, with all space used, and also shows another drive with 12gb, all space free... i have no idea why, since I used the intel raid application and they are raid-0'd together. It should show only one drive. Is it showing these weird sizes because the total drive size (70~gb) is more than DOS's fdisk can handle?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

btw, see my signature for my system info (motherboard, etc)
P4P800 Deluxe w/bios 1009

 

[boyRacer]

What OS are you trying to install? You can partition it the way you want during XP installation.

 

[Flakk]

Windows XP

i do want to install XP on it, but i first wanted to copy files off my other harddrive onto it for backup.. I guess i could install XP on it first but I thought I could just use it without installing an operating system on it first

 

[Flakk]

ok ok, i am going to settle with installing Window XP on it to format and partition the raid-0 drive... but one problem
what do i use for the raid driver disk that it asks for (press F6 when you're first installing Windows XP).. I couldnt seem to find any drivers like I could for the Via Promise controller.

Anybody with a P4P800 Deluxe that knows what to use as a driver disk when installing WinXP on a drive on the Intel controller, let me know plz!

 

[MDE]

Try to copy the drivers off the motherboard CD to a floppy

 

[Flakk]

ok thanks.. i will look.. i just thought they would have updated them online by now if they had them.. but maybe they are the same as the original ones or something

-- edit --

i'll be darned.. you have to run the makedisk.exe with the IAA3.5R files

i just tried it and wondered what it would put on the disk lol
it turns out to be the inf files and everthing 😀 thanks for the help