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Can't boot from raid drive, help please

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Brewsir

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OK, let me get the vitals in first.

Win XP pro
Asus a7n8x deluxe
2X 30g maxtor drives, one master one slave
2X 80g hitachi drives raid 0 stripe

Here's the story. I've just added the 80g drives in raid 0 and want to make it the c: boot drive. I tried Ghost, when it goes to dos mode to clone, I get an error and have to reboot. I decided to try another utility, Acronis True image because it works in windows. It successfully clones the c: drive to the raid drive, but when I go into the bios and make scsi the first boot device, it won't boot, I get an error and it tells me to press ctrl alt del to restart. Do these programs just not like raid or what?

If I can't get this to work, and I just put a fresh install of win xp on the raid drive, is there then a way to get all my programs/setting/files successfully moved to the new drive?
 
if your raid is a pci card, when it goes into its bios, set a boot mark on both drives, or the array. sorry i cant be more specific, if its the same card as mine, or same bios (highpoint rocket raid 1540 bios 2.03s) then i can give you some proper instructions
 
It's onboard sata raid, not pci card. Also it's Silicon Image and not Highpoint, thanks though.
 
i had a similar problem when i first got my raptors ... i didnt try to clone my drives but ran into trouble booting, i ended up having to leave my IDE drives as bootable but specifiying the SATA as teh boot device before it in the boot priorty list ...

also, did you try doing a clean install to your RAID array ... an image of an IDE will need different drives and such function properly ...
 
I had the exact same issue with my hitachi's. I even RA 'd them.

Same issue with new. I solved the issue after trying everything else.

I drop the stripe size down from 128 to 64 and bang xp would finish its install and boot fine from then on.

I have no idea why but XP and 128k stripe on the Hitachi was the issue. I had tried every possible setting for boot sequence and include enable disable SATA and SATA boot. I tried it with the onbarod promise controller and the ich5r Intel contorller

You name it i tried it. In desperation i recreated the raid array using 64k strip and bang everything has been great. Try that and you may have the same luck
 
P.S. There is one other variable , I trust that you used the F^ metnod of installing the raid driver. You need to explore you motherboard disc to find the intel app accelerator folder. I n the folder there is an executable that says make disc.

click that and have a floppy in drive A It iwll create a floppy for the F6 method you will need assuming XP on the install setup.


Once your prompted for 3rd party driver dont remove the disc
I let it do it twice. I will never no if it was laoding the driver twice or the stripe size that was the issue and i wont until next time i do a clean install. I hope this was helpful
 
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