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"Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> "Doug Ramage" <namxat666@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > "Ben Pope" <spam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > > Eyman wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Ive got an A7N8X Deluxe-E motherboard with a 74Gb Western Digital
> Raptor
> > > > drive running windows XP.
> > > >
> > > > I have recently bought another exact raptor and would like to use
the
> > two
> > > > running RAID 0.
> > > >
> > > > Both are connected correctly and I have created a striped RAID set
> under
> > > > the RAID bios settings. Both drives are recognised by the bios and
> RAID
> > > > bios.
> > > >
> > > > I get the following errors
> > > >
> > > > Verifying DMI Pool
> > > > Nvidia boot agent
> > > > PXE-E61: media test failed, check cable
> > > > PXE-M01: exiting nvidia boot agent
> > >
> > > Well thats your network card.
> > >
> > > > Disk boot failure, invalid system disk, press enter to exit.
> > >
> > > Did you set the RAID partition active? I suspect that you partitioned
> the
> > > drive but did not set it active, which allows it to boot.
> > >
> > > > Luckily I was able to delete the RAID set and restore my system from
a
> > > > ghost backup.
> > > >
> > > > My question is, does creating a RAID set delete existing data on the
> > > > drives?
> > >
> > > Changing the partition will, yes. RAID 0 requires a new partition to
> > extend
> > > across both drives. RAID 1, will not.
> > >
> > > > Also if so, is there any way to create the RAID set and restore the
> > backup
> > > > to the new RAID set from ghost?
> > >
> > > Yeah, you should be able to create teh RAID set, set the (new,
extended)
> > > partition active, then restore your ghost image and reboot.
> > >
> > > Ben
> > > --
> >
> > Ben, I have 2 SATA drives - non Raid.
> >
> > Are you saying I could clone, with Ghost, the SATA drive with my OS and
> apps
> > on it to (say) a PATA drive, then set up a RAID-0 array, then clone or
> > restore an image file (assuming I had created one) the PATA back to the
> > Raided SATA drives?
> >
> > Obviously, I am trying to avoid re-installing Windows XP and all my
apps.
> > --
> > Doug Ramage
> >
>
> Doug and/or Ben;
>
> I'm having a heck of a time getting Xp's setup to see my
> new SATA drives on a A7N8X-E Deluxe. The drives are
> listed with their correct sizes on boot ( after the option to go
> to the RAID utility). When I load the OS from the XP disk,
> I press F6 and load the SI3112r.sys file. When setup gets
> past "Starting windows" it doesn't show the users agreement
> page but goes to a selection page for start windows or repair
> or quit with F3. The next page is a "windows didn't find any
> mass storage devices" and all it will let me do is F3 outta there.
>
> If I leave my old IDE ( I guess it's P-ATA now) drives in
> the sys and load from them, I can go to "Disk Management"
> and see the drives as Disk2 and 3. I has even able to format
> them and made the one I want to make my boot drive active.
> I didn't give them drive letters. But they still won't be seen by
> setup when I disconnect the old drives and try to do a clean
> install on the SATA drives.
>
> So my question is "How do I make one of my SATA drives
> the system drive?" Can I just clone the current OS install
> over to the SATA drive from my current system drive? I would
> normally do a clean install at some point, if only to keep the
> sys in shape. Any ideas what could be preventing setup from
> seeing the new SATA drives, when they are shown at the sys
> level (and XP can see them when the sys is loaded via the old
> drives)
>
> This is not making sense;
> Ken
>
>
>
I cloned mine with Ghost - from PATA to SATA. Just remember to have the
SATA drivers loaded via Device Manager before cloning, and set the BIOS to
boot from SCSI. Then I removed the PATA drive.
--
Doug Ramage