OK, thanks for the sticky on the RAID.. Here's my prob;; I have an ASUS A7N8X DELUXE using the onboard Sil Image chipset, running 2 Maxtor 6Y080M0 HD's. About a month ago, i noticed on boot up, that the bios dump sez RAID SET NOT COMPLETE. I go into set up and hit "Rebuil RAID" but the message is "Not Rebuildable" OK, I have a dead drive I assume and it's running on the mirror..
Here's where I'm lost. I call up my local store and ask them to sell me a SATA HD and they tell me that not all SATA HD's are compatible with the RAID system.. And then they throw in some stuff about the JD specification.. At this point my eyes glazed over.. Look I just wanna buy something and replace the dead drive. I understand that my Maxtor no longer exists, but my MB manual sez that I can use a bigger drive, but the system will still report as a 40 gig or whatever. what do I do? Can somebody tell me something, here?
Last but not least, i do not have an OS install disk. After studying this the past few days, i thought if I buy a, say, West Digital 120 gigger , mirror the existing drive, then buy another new WD drive, and everything would be peaches and cream again.
Or how about this: I install a drive on the IDE bus and Ghost the boot up disk.. The curveball is I do not have an XP PRO OS disk. The scary part is I'm in school, and I'm running Access and Excel projects right now, and I don't need a hard crash right now.. But i have backed everything up
Thanks, people, for your opinions and suggestions
Here's where I'm lost. I call up my local store and ask them to sell me a SATA HD and they tell me that not all SATA HD's are compatible with the RAID system.. And then they throw in some stuff about the JD specification.. At this point my eyes glazed over.. Look I just wanna buy something and replace the dead drive. I understand that my Maxtor no longer exists, but my MB manual sez that I can use a bigger drive, but the system will still report as a 40 gig or whatever. what do I do? Can somebody tell me something, here?
Last but not least, i do not have an OS install disk. After studying this the past few days, i thought if I buy a, say, West Digital 120 gigger , mirror the existing drive, then buy another new WD drive, and everything would be peaches and cream again.
Or how about this: I install a drive on the IDE bus and Ghost the boot up disk.. The curveball is I do not have an XP PRO OS disk. The scary part is I'm in school, and I'm running Access and Excel projects right now, and I don't need a hard crash right now.. But i have backed everything up
Thanks, people, for your opinions and suggestions