Ok I have a bad install of windows - gives me all kinds of errors. I dont have a floppy drive. I just bought 2 drives for a raid that I want to run my OS off of. I am completely new to setting up the raid but I have done some reading online.
My mobo is DFI Ultra-D. I went into the bios and enabled the SATA drives, and set them up in a raid config. Then I put the raid drive to be my primary bootup drive after my cd drive. It shows it as healthy and looks good. I assume this is correct to have it as the primary drive...
Now I have created a slipstream CD with an ISO file using nlite. Whenever I try to boot off it it I get this error: Unable to load dos! Hit any key to retry
Of course if I hit a key its a loop... I've tried using an older version of nlite and burning on the slowest speed and putting CDIMAGE.EXE into the nlite folder. None of this has worked. Still doesnt boot off of the cd with the ISO folder.
Let me see if I understand correctly - on a normal setup the cd would run, install the RAID drivers, then I could install windows onto the RAID drive. Correct?
Could my windowsiso file be corrupt if my current windows installation is bad? I suppose I could install windows completely new after formating my HDD and then try to run the slipstream software and put it all on there.. But I have read of other people having boot issues off of the ISO created. Ideas?
My mobo is DFI Ultra-D. I went into the bios and enabled the SATA drives, and set them up in a raid config. Then I put the raid drive to be my primary bootup drive after my cd drive. It shows it as healthy and looks good. I assume this is correct to have it as the primary drive...
Now I have created a slipstream CD with an ISO file using nlite. Whenever I try to boot off it it I get this error: Unable to load dos! Hit any key to retry
Of course if I hit a key its a loop... I've tried using an older version of nlite and burning on the slowest speed and putting CDIMAGE.EXE into the nlite folder. None of this has worked. Still doesnt boot off of the cd with the ISO folder.
Let me see if I understand correctly - on a normal setup the cd would run, install the RAID drivers, then I could install windows onto the RAID drive. Correct?
Could my windowsiso file be corrupt if my current windows installation is bad? I suppose I could install windows completely new after formating my HDD and then try to run the slipstream software and put it all on there.. But I have read of other people having boot issues off of the ISO created. Ideas?
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