add ide raid 0 on existing sata system

[bpm3k]

First, I had 1 74gb raptor installed on sata 3. Everything is on it and everything works great.

 

Now, I am trying to add 2 200gb maxtor drives on primary ide for raid 0. I just can't get windows to recognize them as 1 drive.

 

I connected the harddrives then went into bios and set ide raid to enabled. Then I enabled it on the 2 ide drives.

 

Then saved and pressed f10. i set them up as stripping and moved them over to the right side of screen. When I boot windows the screen after bios but before windows boots says healthy array. But when i go to windows and disk managment the 2 maxtor drives are listed seperatly.

 

I know i am suppsed to use the nvraid floppy but i must have clicked through it and missed the chance to install. How can i fix this?

 

I tried to uninstall the drives by rightclicking on drives in disk managment then uninstalling the drive (or drivers). But when i restart windows they get reinstalled automatically and there is no option to install off my floppy. I also tried updating the drivers to something off the disk, but it does not consider them to have information relating to the device.

 

I installed the nvidia Unified Driver 5.10 when i originally set up my computer (with just the sata drive).

[cyberfossil]

you must reinstall windows. Hit F6 as soon as it boots into the windows installing setup files screen, then install both files off your raid floppy when asked by hitting the "S" keyand following directions . It is pretty straight forward from there

[red930]

Whoa. If I understand the first post, you are not trying to boot from the array. If that is correct you DO NOT have to re-install Windows XP.

 

I boot from the SATA drive. I just added an IDE array with two 160GB Maxtors last week and DID NOT have to re-install.

 

It looks like you might have missed a step. I'm doing this from memory so here we go.

 

I enabled the IDE RAID function in BIOS for the second IDE port.

 

I rebooted and Windows XP found the new device. nVRAID was not installed so I simply ran the setup program again.

 

I rebooted and Windows XP installed the device driver for nVRAID.

 

I shut down and attached the two drives to the secondary IDE controller.

 

On reboot, nVRAID found the two devices and asked how I wanted to set them up. Once the array was recognized, I went into Disk Management and formated the array.

 

It was pretty simple.

[cyberfossil]

oops! :eek:

[bpm3k]

Okay. I think what i needed to do was reinstall the nvraid.

 

But seeming as how this windows install was only about 5 days old. I decided to just reformat and reinstall.

 

I unplugged the ide drives and installed windows on the sata. Then I plugged in the ide drives, went to bios and enabled raid, then restart straight into f10 were i set up raid there. Then into windows where i loaded the raid driver off the disc when windows asked for drivers.

 

Then i restarted and loaded the nvidia 5.10 drivers. Restarted again. And in disk managment everything looks good now.

 

I am sure there was a way to do it with having to reinstall but it wasn't a big deal.

[red930]

I am sure there was a way to do it with having to reinstall but it wasn't a big deal.

You basically followed my instructions when you did the rebuild but as long as you're happy. That's all that matters.

 

I was blown away by the throughput the IDE array provides. You'll get a kick out of the system now that you're done.

 

Congrats...