Urgent HELP! need with KR7A-RAID and WinXP

[saltedeggman]

well, i i have created a raid0 zero array with 3 partitioned drives under two maxtor 40gig hardware...but i can't seem to get XP to detect my harddrive when I booted from the CD.

Can anyone help me with this?

I have already set all of the boot device to ATA133RAID and under the RAID menu, i set the boot disk to the Raid array drive...

anything is appreciated!

thx

saltedeggman

 

[Scootin159]

Did you install the RAID drivers on bootup when it says "Press F6 if you need to install a third party RAID or SCSI card"?

 

[saltedeggman]

<< Did you install the RAID drivers on bootup when it says "Press F6 if you need to install a third party RAID or SCSI card"? >>



i guess not

thx

let me try

 

[Scootin159]

when it asks for a disk...use the one that came with your board. It should say "HighPoint ...." on it.

 

[saltedeggman]

i pressed f6 and nothing happen, and it went to press f2 for something...

 

[ScrapSilicon]

<< Did you install the RAID drivers on bootup when it says "Press F6 if you need to install a third party RAID or SCSI card"? >>

saltedeggman, that was supposed to have been done before you ran thru the install of WinXP. <edit> also at that time you can disable ACPI....p.s. Check your cables as they might look ok but unplug and replug them.

 

[saltedeggman]

when the message prompt up...i did press F6 and nothing happened, and i let it load...after they load the setup files (ie. drivers and stuff) it asked for the disc...however, i put the driver disk in there, and press enter, it keeps telling me to put the disc in there!!!

i don't know why

 

[saltedeggman]

can anyone link me to the driver for the controller highpoint on KR7A-R??

 

[ScrapSilicon]

<< when the message prompt up...i did press F6 and nothing happened, and i let it load...after they load the setup files (ie. drivers and stuff) it asked for the disc...however, i put the driver disk in there, and press enter, it keeps telling me to put the disc in there!!!

i don't know why >>

check ..with power off your CDRom IDE cable as that sometimes happens if you either remove the CD before the program is finished(unless it has locked up) or the CDRom has become a nondevice in the list of devices i.e. cable undone/bad connect or ...dead Highpoint's site ..read the page

 

[saltedeggman]

no luck

 

[cleverhandle]

<< when the message prompt up...i did press F6 and nothing happened, and i let it load...after they load the setup files (ie. drivers and stuff) it asked for the disc. >>



That's normal - it doesn't ask for the disk right away. I'm not sure why the CDROM is acting up. See if you can fit the RAID drivers on a floppy. This possible with the Promise drivers - I've never tried with Highpoint.

 

[Scootin159]

When you press F6 it's not supposed to do anything.....but it will cause that disk prompt to come up earlier. When it asks for the disk, you need one that is specially formatted for that (the one that came with your board should be formatted). Press "s", insert the disk when it tells you, hit enter, select which controller you have, press enter, and it then should continue with setup. If you insert the disk & it still tells you to insert the disk, my guess is that the disk isn't properly formatted for windows setup.

 

[saltedeggman]

http://fae.abit.com.tw/eng/faq/qa/2001/2001102402.htm

i did exactly the same thing as above except that when i insert the disk when they prompt me for the driver!!
it keeps repeating to ask him to put to disk in drive A and press enter

 

[Scootin159]

<< http://fae.abit.com.tw/eng/faq/qa/2001/2001102402.htm

i did exactly the same thing as above except that when i insert the disk when they prompt me for the driver!!
it keeps repeating to ask him to put to disk in drive A and press enter >>



It's probably something messed with the disk you have. Go to highpoint.com & get a new one.

 

[saltedeggman]

i flahsed to the lastest bios, would that affect anything?

according to this
http://fae.abit.com.tw/eng/faq/qa/2001/2001070201.htm

 

[ScrapSilicon]

<< http://fae.abit.com.tw/eng/faq/qa/2001/2001102402.htm

i did exactly the same thing as above except that when i insert the disk when they prompt me for the driver!!
it keeps repeating to ask him to put to disk in drive A and press enter >>

Drive A is your floppy drive...hmmm...that' is where I'll let the RAID array experts take over....hope it works out for you

 

[saltedeggman]

<<

It's probably something messed with the disk you have. Go to highpoint.com & get a new one. >>



did that, unzipped it, copy to 3.5" and still message!!

 

[saltedeggman]

thx guys....
and problem still unsolved!!