Hello. I have a RAID 0 setup with 2 80 gig Hitchi drives. I have a partition of 40 gigs, and a partition of 120 gigs. I load XP Pro on the 40 gig partition and leave the 120 gig partition as a storage space so if need be I can reload windows and not lose valuable information. The problem is this: whenever I do this, I have to change which HDD I boot to in the BIOS. If I dont, I get a message saying Windows cannot load with the current hard drive configuration and that I should refer to the BIOS settings to adjust to the appropriate settings. The screen is black with a white lettered paragraph near the top. Is this because of the multiple partitions on the RAID set, or is something faulty in my RAID hardware? I'm really stumped and need some help on this one! THanks in advance! ASDFGHJKL:

Hi You bios should be setup to boot from hard drive, the bios will know the raid array as SCSI.. This should be your first option in the boot sequence.. I havent seen this sort of error before I must admit, I do presume you have set up the raid array correctly and you have laoded the raid drivers !!! There is nothign wrong the way you have partitioned the array, by rights it should boot OK IF IT AINT BROKE, DONT FIX IT A8N-SLI Deluxe AMD X64 3500+ Wnchst Corsair 2x512 DDR400 Dual Channel GV-NX6600128D PCIX Graphics Card Ggbyte GT Pro CPU Cooler Zalman VF700-CU VGA Cool

I'll try that. Gigabyte was horrid about providing the RAID drivers for it's onboard RAID controllers. They never included a floppy or the drivers to place on the floppy. You had to go onto their website and find the drivers. It worked when I first built the PC, and for some reason after I reformatted it for the second time, it just didnt want to work. Ever since then i've been using an IDE drive as the primary and the RAID set as backup. But for gaming and video rendering, it's just not as fast, and you can tell. Thanks for the help! ASDFGHJKL:

The drivers for the on board raid controlers are located on the mother board support CD... But using the latest set is always good idea. Have you updated the main bios since you got the board ??? Usualy the raid bios update is incorporated with the main bios and any updates for the main bios do include the raid update if any.... What I can suggest is this.. Update the bios if there is a new version, make sure you get the correct one for your board. If you have any data on the raided disks transfer it over to the current ide if it will fit. Delete the partitions, and than delete the actual raid array. In that order !!! Now I presume the board has the Sil Image 3114 controler.. Or are you using the NF controler ?? Once that is done use the raid controller and do a zero write format on each drive, this will take hours, and I mean hours.. Once both drives are done recreate the raid array for Raid 0 Stripe and leave the cluster size at optimum, unless you want 64K cluster for a specific reason... Create the new partitions and format the drive, load windows as per normal and dont remove the raid driver floppy untill the OS boots for the first time.. If you get the silly message about drivers not being certified just click proceed... As your other drive has an os on it, make sure the boot sequence in the bios is set correctly.... Try that if you can and see how you go.... IF IT AINT BROKE, DONT FIX IT A8N-SLI Deluxe AMD X64 3500+ Wnchst Corsair 2x512 DDR400 Dual Channel GV-NX6600128D PCIX Graphics Card Ggbyte GT Pro CPU Cooler Zalman VF700-CU VGA Cool