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I am running Windows XP SP 2 and Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 on my machine, and I recently decided to attempt to make a raid 0 array out of two 160 GB drives I have, keeping another 320 GB drive for backup images.

I cloned everything to the 320 drive, set up raid on the other two drives and installed Windows fresh to the raid array. That all went fine, but setting up raid seems to have caused the 320 drive to disappear. The BIOS won't let me choose it as a boot drive even though it is perfectly bootable, and Windows (on the raid array) seems to think the drive isn't formatted and doesn't have any data on it. I just went into the BIOS and disabled raid, and now the 320 GB drive boots normally (but of course the raid array isn't operational).

If anyone could tell me what is going on, or how to fix it, I would appreciate the help. Thanks in advance.

And another semi-related question: Is it possible to configure Windows and/or Linux such that I could just clone the 320 drive to the raid array, assuming I get the above resolved? (Because I don't look forward to reinstalling all my software....)

Hardware Specs:
CPU: AMD 64 X2 5600+
Motherboard: EVGA nForce 590 SLI
Graphics: nVidia 8800 GTS
RAM: 2.0 GB
HDD: two identical 160 GB disks, one 320 GB disk, all Maxtor