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I have an Asus A7N8X-E motherboard with 4 drives. I'm told that Disk 0 and
Disk 1 are the HDs on the IDE chain and that Disk 2 and Disk 3 (last one
invisible) are on the SATA connectors and are SATA HDs, Disk 3 being a
mirror of Disk 2 using the raid level 0 feature.
I've tried to install winxp on Disk 2 but I'm informed that system files
must be places on Disk 0 while it's in there. When I do setup it says that
system files must be on Disk 0, and I can't leave it unformatted so all the
necessary files go on Disk 2. Obviously I can't effectively Ghost/image the
main hard drive, Disk 2, because necessary system files are on Disk 0. What
can I do to install? Will I have to yank the other HDs and install WinXP
first?
Thanks for your help.
I have an Asus A7N8X-E motherboard with 4 drives. I'm told that Disk 0 and
Disk 1 are the HDs on the IDE chain and that Disk 2 and Disk 3 (last one
invisible) are on the SATA connectors and are SATA HDs, Disk 3 being a
mirror of Disk 2 using the raid level 0 feature.
I've tried to install winxp on Disk 2 but I'm informed that system files
must be places on Disk 0 while it's in there. When I do setup it says that
system files must be on Disk 0, and I can't leave it unformatted so all the
necessary files go on Disk 2. Obviously I can't effectively Ghost/image the
main hard drive, Disk 2, because necessary system files are on Disk 0. What
can I do to install? Will I have to yank the other HDs and install WinXP
first?
Thanks for your help.