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"powertoys" <powertoys@nospammail.com> wrote in message
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>I currently have 2 SATA maxtor 120 gig HD's as raid 0 on drive F:\
> and a very small Quantum fireball >4gig IDE HD as master boot as my C:\
> drive .
> I've installed a fresh winxppro w/sp1 OS's on both my IDE and SATA drives
> so I have the option to boot to either drive OS. I want to eliminate my
> small C:\ drive, but am having difficulty booting to the SATA drive
> without my C:\ drive present. Any ideas to configure my bios SATA first
> boot option? Thanks for all your help in advance.
>
>
>
Reinstalling xp after removing IDE drive. For some reason or another I could
not do this from the get go.I hope I can set the bios to scsi for 1st boot.
Seems logical they should have an SATA 1st boot option.
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Did you load the SATA RAID driver when you installed XP on the array?
Without it your expensive RAID array is useless as anything but a data
drive.
"powertoys" <powertoys@nospammail.com> wrote in message
newsNJ_d.39467$_i3.1990521@twister.southeast.rr.com...
> I currently have 2 SATA maxtor 120 gig HD's as raid 0 on drive F:\
> and a very small Quantum fireball >4gig IDE HD as master boot as my C:\
> drive .
> I've installed a fresh winxppro w/sp1 OS's on both my IDE and SATA drives
so
> I have the option to boot to either drive OS. I want to eliminate my small
> C:\ drive, but am having difficulty booting to the SATA drive without my
C:\
> drive present. Any ideas to configure my bios SATA first boot option?
Thanks
> for all your help in advance.
>
>
>
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)
Pull out the C drive.
Check boot settings in bios - have cdrom 1st then sata.
Run XP repair and install the sata raid drivers with F6.
Reinstall chipset drivers
Reinstall service packs
Reinstall critical updates
I would recommend getting XP SP2, but if you have not had it installed and
confirmed all is 100% then this is not realy the time to bung it in.
You do realise that raid 0 doubles the chance of volume failure?
"powertoys" <powertoys@nospammail.com> wrote in message
newsNJ_d.39467$_i3.1990521@twister.southeast.rr.com...
>I currently have 2 SATA maxtor 120 gig HD's as raid 0 on drive F:\
> and a very small Quantum fireball >4gig IDE HD as master boot as my C:\
> drive .
> I've installed a fresh winxppro w/sp1 OS's on both my IDE and SATA drives
> so I have the option to boot to either drive OS. I want to eliminate my
> small C:\ drive, but am having difficulty booting to the SATA drive
> without my C:\ drive present. Any ideas to configure my bios SATA first
> boot option? Thanks for all your help in advance.
>
>
>
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