garborg Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 ****UPDATE**** Fresh install, works great. I too was worried reading these forums but everything went great... MAKE SURE IF YOU ARE INSTALLING OS ON RAID YOU REMOVE ALL OTHER HDDs TILL AFTER INSTALL Using WinXP x64, just finished putting everything together and worked out numerous problems to get to this point. All in all, everything is workable, but one small thing is bugging me. I set up my 3 Raptors in RAID 0 on the nF4 controller, with my 320G driver taking up the 4th slot on same controller. Partitioned off 20G of the Raid for windows install and left the rest for programs. I now have C: (20G on Raid) F: (188G on raid) and G: (288G single drive by it's self). System seems stable loaded multiple programs, updated windows, everthing is peachy. Now usually once I have everything set, I change my boot up sequence in Bios to only check HDD, set RAID as priority 1 under HDD, and disabled all others in sqequence. Once I did this started getting "NO BOOTABLE DRIVE, PLEASE INSERT DISK AND HIT ENTER" or something of the likes. Now if I set up the boot squence back to CD > HDD > Disabled.... Again same message, BUT if I insert my windows disk I get after CMOS message.... Booting from CD Press any key to boot from CD .......... (takes about 5-10 sec for the '......') Then the box boots up XP x64 from the HDD. So as long as I use my XP disk to get boot loader running? my HDD will boot up fine... can anyone explain? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmf Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 You've gotta take off your 300gb hdd when you install windows. Usual order for drives is ide, sata and then raid. When you installed windows some boot files got placed on your 300gb drive since windows saw it before your array. If you had it off when you installed forget the above.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolek74 Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 Dumb question. Did you setup RAID as bootable? It will be in RAID menu (F10 for NVRAID or F4 for silicon and enter the raid and there should be 'press B' for bootable) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
garborg Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 Excellent explaination! I was wondering what those extra folders placed on my G: drive was. Now question... think I can get away with just moving them over ? > Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmf Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 not sure about that...you may have to edit your boot.ini. You can try but if it doesn't work just install again instead of mucking about trying to fix it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
garborg Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 Going to give making a muck-up a go first... 5 hours of software installs and patching already done. Let you know what happens. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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