Alright so I bought a couple (used) 74 GB WD Raptor WD740ADFD drives. My home desktop is currently not working, as my video card died. I work as a systems technician, and am able to mess around on a 2nd computer at work. I used each of the drives, and installed Windows 7 on them. Ran a performance test and they were super fast. But when I go to install them as RAID 0, setup won't finish.
The computer: HP DC7900, business computer
The drives: WD Raptor 74 GB WD740ADFD x 2
So I've played around with RAID quite a few times on this work computer, but always using the drives that came shipped with the computer. I believe they are Seagate Barracuda 7200.xx 160 GB drives (can't remember which version exactly). I've set up raid with 2 and up to 5 drives. Worked perfectly and Windows setup went smoothly.
When trying to setup with the Raptor drives now, Windows install will freeze right after copying all files to the hard drive. For Windows 7, it freezes at the black "Starting Windows" screen with the animated Windows logo. Setup won't even get far enough to let me install drivers or anything.
So I guess my question is...is it because of the computer I'm trying to set this up on, or is there something I can do to fix this? I might try to borrow a PCIe video card from work this weekend so I can try installing them at home, but it's driving my crazy that I can't get them to work on my work computer.
If anyone has any info that may help, or if you need more information, just let me know! Thanks!
Logan
The computer: HP DC7900, business computer
The drives: WD Raptor 74 GB WD740ADFD x 2
So I've played around with RAID quite a few times on this work computer, but always using the drives that came shipped with the computer. I believe they are Seagate Barracuda 7200.xx 160 GB drives (can't remember which version exactly). I've set up raid with 2 and up to 5 drives. Worked perfectly and Windows setup went smoothly.
When trying to setup with the Raptor drives now, Windows install will freeze right after copying all files to the hard drive. For Windows 7, it freezes at the black "Starting Windows" screen with the animated Windows logo. Setup won't even get far enough to let me install drivers or anything.
So I guess my question is...is it because of the computer I'm trying to set this up on, or is there something I can do to fix this? I might try to borrow a PCIe video card from work this weekend so I can try installing them at home, but it's driving my crazy that I can't get them to work on my work computer.
If anyone has any info that may help, or if you need more information, just let me know! Thanks!
Logan