New XP Install

[awb23]

I just bought a couple new 500gigs that are in a Raid 1 config that have my new install of windows. My old install had an older 80gig SATA drive, but now I need to get some critical info off it. I plugged it in after I installed windows on the 500's and now I can't get windows to see the old 80gig SATA. Everything is enabled in the bios. Any ideas?

Motherboard is a chaintech VNF4 Ultra
Windows XP PRO

 

[boomerang]

Is the drive seen by the BIOS at boot? By that I mean, is it listed there?

What did it take to get the RAID going? Just curious.

 

[coupland]

Does the drive appear in Computer Management / Disk Management? Perhaps it simply hasn't been assigned a drive letter, which is not automatic.

 

[boomerang]

If you globally enabled RAID, ALL your ports will function only in a RAID array.

 

[awb23]

Boomerang - I did globally enable raid, maybe thats it. I'll try it out now.

Anways I couldn't get it to work with the windows install so I made a slipstream windows CD (took me forever to figure out how)...so I just reinstalled everything with the slipstream drives and it worked perfectly. Before, for some reason the bios would not copy the contents of the boot drive onto the new drive, not sure why. What a headache huh!

 

[awb23]

Boomerang - That fixed it, thanks bud

 

[boomerang]

Originally posted by: awb23
Boomerang - I did globally enable raid, maybe thats it. I'll try it out now.

Anways I couldn't get it to work with the windows install so I made a slipstream windows CD (took me forever to figure out how)...so I just reinstalled everything with the slipstream drives and it worked perfectly. Before, for some reason the bios would not copy the contents of the boot drive onto the new drive, not sure why. What a headache huh!

I was going to post back earlier as I was looking around the Nvidia site and it looked like the RAID BIOS would not allow you to do it the way I suggested.

They all implement it differently. I've never done an Nvidia RAID.

I'm glad you got it working. Sometimes we learn best the hard way. :thumbsup: