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Hello,
I have EP-9NPA+Ultra running a AMD64 3500+. I have a Cd rom and an 30gb pata ide occupying ide 1 and 2X160gb pata ide ocuppying ide 2. I am trying to install a bootable raid 1 to 160gb hard drives. So I am trying to install XP Pro to the 1 ~320gb raid drive. Of course I have setup the floppy and when XP asks for the disk i place the floppy in the drive. It seems to load nvraid and storage drivers but sometime during the loading (some time after) it tells me "setup can not copy the file: nvraid.sys" When I skip the file, it does the same thing for the other drivers on the floppy. My floppy and drive are fine. I have done multiple combinations of bios changes but can not get windows to finish setup. Raid drive setups up fine using the raid f10 utility. Can someone please help. This is extremely frustrasting. :cry:

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1st 2 x 160gig in raid 1 (mirror)= 160gig. raid0 (strip) will yield 320gig.

In most cases you need to have a deciated controller to make a raid. 1 drive to 1 controller, unless you are use a software raid. I'm not familar with the MB you have. Recheck your manual. On my Asus mb the raid controllers are in a different location than the std ide controllers.

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I had the same exact problem and it turned out to be a bad Windows XP CD. Swear to god. I have no clue why, but that was the problem.

-mpjesse

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It installs fine without raid. I get the feeling that I problably will have to forget about my RAID aspirations.

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