Windows XP SATA RAID Installation

FiberoN

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I am going to buy the MSI K8N Neo Platinum with a AMD Athlon 64 3000+. I am also going to install win xp pro on it. I wish to install 2 seagate 80gb SATA drives in a RAID 0. I have heard many people say it's hard or what not but I want someone to tell me what to do exactly. Do I install win xp on one hd then go in bios and set up raid, then REINSTALL win xp? or can I set up the raid in the first installation of winxp? :s
 

AtTheGates

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I've never setup RAID before so don't take my word on this but I would assume you setup the array and then press f6 during install just as you would with any sata drive. Can't remember what key it is for my motherboard but the time to enter RAID setup is hard to miss during boot.
 

spamsk8r

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you definitely need to set up the array in the sata bios before you attempt to install windows.