Noob question about boot order for IDE vs SATA/RAID

[Schfifty Five]

Hey guys,

Ok, so this might be a really dumb question, but I'm new to RAIDing and SATA so I don't want to screw anything up.

My mobo is a DFI-Lan Party nF4 Ultra-D. I just bought 2x 500gb SATA II Seagates. I am putting them in RAID 0 (striping). I originally had a 300gb IDE and 160gb IDE non RAID.

I took out PATA/IDE HDs and put my SATAs and RAIDed them, installed windows, no problems. 1TB is sweet.

Ok here's the thing I'm not sure about...I have a bunch of data from the two PATA HDs that I want to transfer over. If I plug them back into the mobo as they were before, which HD will boot up with windows?

My new SATA RAID has winxp on it, and so does my PATA hd's.

I looked in my BIOS and the boot order only gives "removable, Hard disk, CD-Rom, network", but no SCSI or RAID option.

I'm at work right now so I can't just plug the HDs in and see what happens...but I just wanted to get a good answer before I go home tonight and try.

Thanks!

 

[Schfifty Five]

bump

 

[jhamma1]

In your BIOS there should be another option called hard disks or hard drives.
Select that and all of your drives should be listed and you can move the priority of each disk up or down to your liking.

Hope that helps you out!

 

[tallman45]

Hope you made a small (20gb) OS partition on your 1TB Raid, defrags will take hours on a 1TB Raid

Next keep one of the PATA's and take the OS off theRaid,OS files are tiny and will actually access slower on a Raid 0 subsystem. Keep giant files (video, RAW pics) on the RAid 0.

Best performance is to keep both 500GB separate, Create a 20GB partition on one, put OS on it. Create a small 3-5GB partiation on the other and put the Page DAta File on it. Both drives will be on separate channels and not content with each other. The rest of each put your progs and data on.

Much less risk of data loss when the Raid fails

 

[Schfifty Five]

I got it figured out...it was easier than I thought...

I just hit ESC in the beginning and selected the RAID as boot up.



Tallman45, yes I made a partition for the OS, 100gb, the other 900gb or so is for data.