WeEatDeadPeople Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 So I set up a striping setup in NVIDIA raid bios, and it shows up as healthy and working when I start my computer. However, in winXP windows sees both partitions(on the same id0 drive0 device0) as seperate drives, is this normal? It seems to be properly loading the nvidia drivers from the disk as far as I can tell. I just bought a brand new floppy for it=p what should it look like and what do I have to do to format it to setup windows on a raid 0 setup(striping without mirror is raid0.. right? ) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 Just a quick check, are you following this guide? http://www.angrygames.com/nf4raid-1.htm Are you using the RAID disk that came with your motherboard or did you make your own? Also do you have windows installed on another drive and you can see two seperate drives within windows or do you mean the windows installer show two seperate drives? Edit: yeah striping is RAID 0, mirror is RAID 1, stripe mirroring is 0+1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeEatDeadPeople Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 You linked to this thread =P ill look for the guide. Using the disk that came with the board. Using slots 1n2 for raid 0. Windows installer sees 2 drives, have no other drives but the 2sata on the system right now. Would like to keep cable clutter to a minimum so eventually id just like a big 4xbarracuda raid array Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeEatDeadPeople Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 Hmm, I never got to the menu after hitting F6, it did read the disk drive but it never properly identified the HDs I wonder if its my really really stripped down xp32, maybe I hsould try the 64.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 http://www.angrygames.com/nf4raid-1.htm Sorry about that, too many tabs open. Fixed it in my first post too... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 64 is going to have problems in itself, you'll need to make your own disk for that. You could try slipstreaming the drivers onto a disk using nlite. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeEatDeadPeople Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 Okay, Im retarted Apparently, my USB keyboard was off, but it works once you get to "Setup is starting windows", and since it would hit the disk and load a certain nforce driver at about the same time, i didnt think anythin gof it and assumed it was working normally. I enabled it and am reformatting on my raid setup now. Suprisingly the partition i formatted previously was in the raid just fine, just using half the available space. reformatting now and all is well It was like christmas in jul.... err february! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 Great to hear its working! I totally forgot about USB keyboards, I've always only used PS/2. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now