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Reefing4Fun August 2, 2005 at 14:51:01 Pacific
Win XP sp2, 3.0GHz

I’m setting up a mirrored drive and installing windows XP, but every time through the Windows XP installation – it can’t find a physical drive to install to.

I’m using an Intel motherboard D865PERL – this has a built in SATA RAID Controller. I go to the BIOS and enable the RAID under the ADVANCED settings. Then I go into the RAID configuration by hitting CRTL + I. Under the configuration, I would select 1 to create a new RAID volume.

NAME: RAID_VOLUME1
RAID Lever: RAID1 (MIRROR)

And press ”Y” to create the RAID.

When the system boots up, it would show:

0 RAID_VOLUME1 ……………. Bootable YES

Non RAID Disk
None Defined

But when it’s time to install the Win XP OS – it would stop the installation process with an error about not having a drive. Also same result by pressing F6 to specify a raid controller – Intel® 8280IER SATA RAID Controller. It would always stop due to not finding a physical drive.

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance



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StuartS August 2, 2005 at 16:34:45 Pacific

You do have two identical disk installed that are recognised by the BIOS?

Stuart



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Reefing4Fun August 3, 2005 at 08:23:20 Pacific

Yes, They are recognised by the bios and seen as only one as a bootable drive. DOS see's it as one drive.

Why wouldn't the XP installation see it?



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Reefing4Fun August 3, 2005 at 10:14:01 Pacific

Huh, DUHHHh, I didn't have the latest RAID drivers from Intel. That would help alot.

^_^. Thanks.



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