goawayou Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 ok, i just installed my AMD x2 4400+. so since i had these two (identical) sata drives i wanted to raid them together. so i go through the raid setup in the bios, everything is enabled w/ sata 1, and 2. i have them both running Stripe. i run winxp pro setup, hit F6, and install the 2 original raid drivers on the floppy disk. find my raid drive, formatted and copied data on the drives... ...restart... "error loading operating system." so i tried to find another thread on here with the same problem, someone said use the new nf4 raid drivers. but to my luck VERY new drivers were online from 1-27-06. downloaded them, installed them the same. but still get the same error, and i cannot find out what may be wrong... i'm stuck. any ideas? :confused: thanx! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 Try unplugging your other hard disks and make sure any jump drives are out of the usb slots. Also might wanna specify in the BIOS where you want to boot off of, you'll have to change that again when you plug in the other disks probably. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowboy Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 Did you qualify the memory with memtest before trying to load OS? If not you need to run test #5 for 20 passes and full test 5passes before trying to install OS. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
goawayou Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 yes, memory is just fine. i ran memtest before trying to install. i tried specifying in the BIOS which to install. i tried my C: disk first, but then i also tried my raid sata drive first. both get me the same error. if i do unplug the other disks... (they're 2 IDE) if it does install... then i replug i the other disks... won't that change my drive ID numbers, and screw up windows anyways? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowboy Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 You only want the drives that your OS is going on to be hooked up when installing, then after your up and going.Turn off and reboot to go in and enable the other drives. Window sometimes get confused with other drives. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
goawayou Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 ok, i'll give it a try, and i'll be back soon with the results! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
goawayou Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 ok, prob solved. perfect running and windows installed! plugged back in the IDE's and they were assigned higher letters... so no probs there. after looking for boot disks, windows pops up in under 2 seconds flat! i think i'm going to enjoy this... :angel: thanx again guys! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowboy Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 We get lucky sometimes. Good luck with the rig. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamkoza Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 argh...got the urge to pony up 200 for two wd 36 gb raptors and try out a raid 0 array :cool: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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