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Mike9685 · 02-16-2006, 08:54 AM

I have a working system with the 2 IDE drives and Win2K Sp4. I just added the SATA drives to the system and setup the RAID 1. Just so I'm straight, what are all the settings that need to be set in the bios (v1013) to enable/use SATA and RAID? Anything change using the RAID for the boot device? (The manual is alittle shy on this.)

I've about decided to just bite the bullet and do a clean install of XP on the RAID - how do I make sure that the 2 partitions on the RAID are C: and D:? Disconnect the IDE drives during install? Will I still be able to access all the files on the other partitions of the IDE drives and will the previous Win2K install cause me any problems immediately after hooking the drives back up and rebooting? (Before I have a chance to repartition the drives.)

Thanks in advance.
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A7N8X-E deluxe R1.01
AMD XP 3200+
Thermaltake Volcano 11+
3 x 512mb Kingston PC3200
2 x Maxtor ATA 133 160gig
2 x Maxtor SATA 80gig RAID 1
2 x Pioneer 110 DVD-R/RW
GForce 5900
Win2K Pro/WinXP Pro

02-16-2006, 08:54 AM	#1 (permalink)
Mike9685 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 2 OS: Win2K Pro w/SP4	Installing XP to a RAID on A7N8X-E Dlx I have a working system with the 2 IDE drives and Win2K Sp4. I just added the SATA drives to the system and setup the RAID 1. Just so I'm straight, what are all the settings that need to be set in the bios (v1013) to enable/use SATA and RAID? Anything change using the RAID for the boot device? (The manual is alittle shy on this.) I've about decided to just bite the bullet and do a clean install of XP on the RAID - how do I make sure that the 2 partitions on the RAID are C: and D:? Disconnect the IDE drives during install? Will I still be able to access all the files on the other partitions of the IDE drives and will the previous Win2K install cause me any problems immediately after hooking the drives back up and rebooting? (Before I have a chance to repartition the drives.) Thanks in advance. __________________ A7N8X-E deluxe R1.01 AMD XP 3200+ Thermaltake Volcano 11+ 3 x 512mb Kingston PC3200 2 x Maxtor ATA 133 160gig 2 x Maxtor SATA 80gig RAID 1 2 x Pioneer 110 DVD-R/RW GForce 5900 Win2K Pro/WinXP Pro