RAID Configuration for SATA

[DaftFader]

i am setting up a RAID 0 configuration for my new pc ... and it's telling me in the motherbord manual that i need a floopy disk drive to make a raid driver disk for it to work and i don't have one. my friend is adament that you can do it with out a floppy disk and tells me i need to make the RAID volume boot enabled. i can see where it tells me that it isn't boot enabled but can't find any options to change it when creating my RAID volume :cry:

any ideas?

(my mate is in bloody narfark atm so can't help me and i can't even phone him as he getting a train somewhere atm)

[Dr Bunsen]

If you're using windows xp you can add the drivers to the installation package using nlite (http://www.nliteos.com/) (and add the latest service pack as well while you're at it). Alternately put the driver on a USB stick and boot from it before the installation. Anyway searching google for both methods should give you more to go on...

[BioTech]

I didn't go for a RAID array when I built my machine but I toyed with the idea.

I seem to remember that if you want to set up an array without a floppy drive then you need to make a custom install CD for your windows operating system (I assume you are using windows).

Just did a bit of googling and the program you need to make the custom install is Nlite - then you add the correct driver to the custom cd.

[BioTech]

You beat me to it Doctor.

[Dr Bunsen]

Great minds...

[DaftFader]

i am using vista .. will it still work? .. oh and jinx!:love:

[BioTech]

I think there is an equivalent piece of software that will do the same for vista. Google it.

[DaftFader]

well i have got round the problem of the drivers (by searching for them on my mother board driver cd:wink:) .. but when tring to install windows after i have loaded the drivers it sais the raid configuration that it now sees as one HD is not a boot device or that the bood is not enabled .. now it shows me this also in the bit where you set up the raid .. but i don't know how to make it boot enabled .. i belive this is in the bios (you don't need jumper on a raid configeration do you?)

[elretardo87]

I thought you said your RAID was not going to have your OS on it. Only that drive should be bootable.

Unless you changed your mind.

[DaftFader]

your reading an older post elec

what i did was make a raid with 2 disks and stuck windows on a third