raid question

[yellowvespa]

About 3 weeks ago I put together a new system, all the usual stuff, 875 Abit MB, nice video card, fast Prescott pocessor and 1 SATA hard drive. I loaded XP Pro and then got busy with real life stuff. Dug it back out tonight as I had ordered in another identical Sata Drive.
Now .. keep in mind that XP is fully loaded onto one drive. I went in to Raid, created a new raid volume for Raid 0, it saw both the drives as total volume, saved it and exited. XP starts to load but wants to do a repair. So I go back into Raid utility and delete the volume and create a new one. I still can't get XP Pro to load a new setup. What the heck am I doing wrong?

 

[OdiN]

You can't RAID 0 a drive after windows is already installed on one. I would recommend a good RAID card and do it that way.

 

[Smilin]

Assuming you are talking about hardware raid. You can't stripe a system/boot drive using software.

Raid 0 basically takes every other block of data and puts it on each drive. You can't take an existing drive and convert it to raid 0 without destroying the data (there are some exceptions to this for high-end server raid cards but they won't apply to you).

You will need to perform a new install. Get a driver diskette for your SATA Raid controller, boot off your XP CD, hit F6 when prompted then provide the diskette a bit later in setup by pressing 'S' to specify. Finish setup normally.

 

[eno]

I agree. Back up data if any on the first SATA drive. Then get your latest drivers/sata drivers for that board. Clean install, hit F6 at start of OS install, drop the floppy in that has the driver. Load format drives and load clean OS install.