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Looking for help with RAID setup. I have two identical drives, WD 250GB 16MB cache, 7200rpm etc. Never setup a hardware before and would like to use raid0.

I installed them in slots 3 and 4

I went into the BIOS and enables SATA and RAID for 3&4.

Went into the BIOS utility and set them up for striping.

Started the windows install and pressed F6 for RAID drivers and picked the first RAID driver. At the windows screen it shows two disks with the same IDs. Each as it own 250GB drive.

I formatted one drive and tried installing windows. Using the driver disk I received an error that could not find nvidiaraid.sys (think that’s the name). And could not proceed with the install.

I tried with out installing the drivers and it worked until the computer rebooted. I received a boot error.

The details are:
BIOS
SATA 3/4 DMA transfer Disabled
IDE RAID Enabled
SATA3 RAID Enabled
SATA4 RAID Enabled

SATA3/4 Enabled

RAID utility
Boot: yes ID: 1 Status: healthy Stripe 64k Striping width 2

Any ideas?

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If I remember correctly when I setup my RAID0, I had to install both drivers from the floppy disk not just one. Also the driver cd I had did not operate slots 3&4 correctly. (Worked ok for 1&2, but 1&2 can be a problem if you overclock as they aren't locked) I had to get an updated motherboard driver set from nVidia. Let me now how you get on.

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It's hopeless :? either I got two bad drives, SMART tools reports problems with both or the nvidia nforce 3 ultra RAID controller is bad.

Nothing but problems.

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It's been a little while since I did the RAID0 so I can't remember every detail step for step but I did find this on Google.
Raid0 Setup

It's not identical to your setup but it's close enough.

After using RAID for a while I reverted back to two separate disks anyway because I use one for OS and one for backup. Feels more secure that way.

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