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Trouble with RAID 0 Setup

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tkistre

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I'm doing a new build for myself. I've only done two SATA raids before, both mirrored for a business. I wanted to do RAID 0 (Striped) for myself. I've made the nVidia RAID boot disk, turned on nVidia RAID in BIOS, enabled the two drives, ran the nVidia RAID BIOS set the Array to Striped, and it claims to have a healthy 306 GB Striped Array. When I'm trying to install WindowsXP SP2, I do the F6, load the RAID driver off of floppy. This is where I'm confused.

When I get to the Windows screen to partition, format and such, it shows the unpartitioned space of two different drives. I've read that I should be getting the total of both identical drives, which should be 306GB like the array shows. If I try to partition, it only lets me use one 157GB partition.

Should I be seeing one 306BG partition to load Windows on? If so, what am I doing wrong? I'll give more detail if this is not enough. My system specs are as:

400w Power supply
Asus A8N-E motherboard w/1005 BIOS (NForce4 Ultra Chipset)
AMD A64 3200+ processor w/Venice core
1GB Corsair memory 400mhz (2- 512mb)
2- Hitachi 160GB SATA2 Hard drives
Floppy
NEC DVDRW
 
yes, it should have shown you 306GB
But you should not have to have partition. You should be able to just tell it to format without partitioning.
 
Correct on the partition, but I did want to put a 250GB partition for 32 bit Windows and a 50GB partition for 64 Bit Windows to play with later.

Is there perhaps a setting that may not be correct that would be causing me to see two drives instead of one big one? I only have the nVidia RAID drivers from the CD to use. I did not see any available from Asus and do not see any at nVidia's site to use? I was thinking that maybe the problem could be related to the RAID boot disk driver. Any thoughts?
 
If the array is setup correctly in the RAID controller's BIOS, and it appears as a single 306Gb (approximately) drive in BIOS then it should appear the same in Windows. And you WILL need to partition it. A new array is NOT partitioned.
 
OK, thanks everyone, but I found my problem. An inexperenced RAID installer, me! When Windows Setup prompts you to specify the RAID driver during setup, I was only loading the RAID driver, not the Storage Controller. I just didn't notice it stated "Required" next to it, and I didn't remember having to add both on the last RAID setup I did, a long time ago. I got Windows installed and starting the burden of reloading.
 
I was thinking about that. but you mentioned you pressed F6
well usually just the controller driver with the inf files are required.
 
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