[WATFalcon]

Hey guys,

I'm currently running with two striped arrays:

-2 500GBs in a 1 TB stripe as my boot drive
and
-2 1TBs in a 2TB stripe as my backup/storage drive

Both of these are run through the nVidia RAID controller on my Asus P5N-D mobo

I'm reformatting my 1TB boot array, but I can't manage to dig up my old floppy to load the raid drivers

When I use the windows boot disc, I'm wondering if I need to have a floppy handy to load the RAID drivers before I reformat the array and install a clean copy of windows on it.

Also, before this, should I unplug my 2TB array before installing so my drive lettering isn't weird?

Thanks for any halp

 

[rockstat]

You need to have a floppy handy for installing and making XP detect the SATA RAID drives (2x 500GB). I have experienced a hard time installing the drivers using a USB flash drive.

It is upto you if you want to disconnect or keep the 2TB storage drive connected to your pc while you install XP. It doesn't make much of a difference.

If for any reason the drive shows up with a letter that you don't like, simply right click on my computer in the start menu, select manage>> and then go to disk management.

In there, right click on the drive and select "Change drive letter and path" and then you can select whatever letter you want.

 

[Riskyone101]

Hello and Welcome to TSF,

If installing a new installation, just have 1 drive connected up
till xp is installed and updated, makes things less complicated this way.

Note: you could slipstream the sata driver into the cd installation cd disc also.

 

[alpenadiver]

just food for thought, myself I would set up a raid1 (mirrored) using a raid0 you lose one drive you lose everything.