NCstateBen
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I seem to be having problems installing w2k across a RAID 1 array. I'm using an MSI k7t266-r motherboard. The first problem was with the format and install. It gave all kinds of disk corruption errors when I tried to install w2k with the disks (40G 60GXPs) already configured in RAID. I moved one of the disks to a normal channel and the instalation went flawless. I installed some drivers and played around with it a bit and there were no problems. Then I moved that disk back to the raid array, and imaged it to the other. It worked and booted up. Then I installed another program and it prompted for a restart. I did this, and when it booted back up a bunch of error boxes popped up telling me about corrupt files. I reboot again and it says device not bootable.
Running the w2k reapir tool did nothing but tell me it was unfixable. I moved one of the drives back to a normal ide channel and it fixes it. A bunch of start menu items are gone and most tray items do not start up either but it appears as though the progs themselves are still installed. I reapeat with the second drive and get the same results.
Now what? Both drives have w2k installed. Should I put them back in RAID again? Install SP2 first? It seems whenever i put the drives in raid, the filesystem gets corrupted. This happened with my last k7t266-r as well which i sent back.
Running the w2k reapir tool did nothing but tell me it was unfixable. I moved one of the drives back to a normal ide channel and it fixes it. A bunch of start menu items are gone and most tray items do not start up either but it appears as though the progs themselves are still installed. I reapeat with the second drive and get the same results.
Now what? Both drives have w2k installed. Should I put them back in RAID again? Install SP2 first? It seems whenever i put the drives in raid, the filesystem gets corrupted. This happened with my last k7t266-r as well which i sent back.
