RAID help?

2008-04-30 17:18:49

#1

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7114|Reykjavík, Iceland.

So, here's a overview of my hard drives:

1x WD 200GB IDE drive
2x WD 320GB SATA2 drives
1x Samsung 500GB SATA2 drive

So, I want to RAID the two 320gb ones, I did that with success, but not my OS won't boot, the OS was on the IDE drive, which is listed by the mobo's raid controller as non-raid, but I still get NTLDR not found.

When I insert my windows CD the C drive with the OS installed shows up perfectly (as does the 500GB disk, but the two raided ones do not).

So, do I need to re-install with raid drivers? And if so, how the hell can I do that without a floppy drive?

2008-04-30 17:31:05

#2

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6793|...

Was you OS on the RAID set?

PBAsydney wrote:
how the hell can I do that without a floppy drive?

With XP you make a slipstream using http://www.nliteos.com/. Vista is a bit different, supposedly it is easier but I have never tried it.

Last edited by jsnipy (2008-04-30 17:32:58)

2008-04-30 17:32:44

#3

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7114|Reykjavík, Iceland.

My OS was on the WD 200GB IDE drive, which I have done nothing to.

I bet that if I disable the RAID function in BIOS I can boot it up normally.

Last edited by PBAsydney (2008-04-30 17:33:38)

2008-04-30 17:33:51

#4

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6793|...

PBAsydney wrote:
My OS was on the WD 200GB IDE drive, which I have done nothing to.

I bet that if I disable the RAID function in BIOS I can boot it up normally.

And I'm using XP64, so no SP3 here.

If your OS is not on the RAID set then you should have to do nothing other then tell you BIOS what to boot off of. What board is this?

2008-04-30 17:35:56

#5

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7114|Reykjavík, Iceland.

Gigabyte P35-DS3

I think the problem is that my OS is on a IDE port. It isn't even visible during POST after I enabled RAID (along with the two raid drives) since the BIOS is set to RAID/IDE, the raid configuration configures the IDE drive as non-raid so it's not normally visible.

Edit: Actually, when I disabled RAID mode, I still got NTLRD not found, maybe my OS installation is FUBAR, I'm going to try to re-install windows

Aren't RAID drivers only for when you are installing the OS on the RAID'ed disks anyway? So I won't need them?

edit2: LOL, I fixed it, just had to change boot priority in BIOS, it was trying to load an OS off the empty RAID disks.

Silly me

edit3: Windows won't detect my RAIDed hard drives, so I guess I need drivers, surely there's a way to do that from the OS without having a floppy?

Ah crap, I need to partition that space in the windows setup, and the windows setup won't detect RAID disks without drivers, IE: need floppy.

...

I think I'll go to bed and solve this tomorrow....

Last edited by PBAsydney (2008-04-30 17:46:10)

2008-04-30 17:57:28

#6

jamiet757: Member; +138|6893

Check what hard drive your bios is trying to boot from, when you changed to the raid drives, it might have tried to boot from them, obviously with no OS on those drives you would get an error, and even when you disable the raid, it still might try to boot to a different drive.

2008-04-30 18:01:14

#7

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7114|Reykjavík, Iceland.

jamiet757 wrote:
Check what hard drive your bios is trying to boot from, when you changed to the raid drives, it might have tried to boot from them, obviously with no OS on those drives you would get an error, and even when you disable the raid, it still might try to boot to a different drive.

Read my post above.

Now my problem is that windows won't see the RAID drives, apperantly it craves those drivers from the evil floppy.

I HAS NO FLOPPY!

Meh, there has to be someone I know who still has a floppy drive and a floppy disk I can lend for the drivers...

2008-04-30 18:03:53

#8

jamiet757: Member; +138|6893

Buy a floppy drive online, they are less than $10, or if you really want to splurge, spend $20 and get a 100 billion-in-one card reader/floppy combo.

Why won't windows let you install the raid driver in windows?

Last edited by jamiet757 (2008-04-30 18:05:22)

2008-04-30 18:08:16

#9

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7114|Reykjavík, Iceland.

jamiet757 wrote:
Buy a floppy drive online, they are less than $10, or if you really want to splurge, spend $20 and get a 100 billion-in-one card reader/floppy combo.

Why won't windows let you install the raid driver in windows?

Haven't tried installing them in windows, how do I do that?

2008-04-30 18:09:13