I've got a P5E mobo which i've currently got 2x WD Rator 36Gb SATA drives enabled for a RAID 0 array, i've also got a 3rd IDE 200Gb WD drive. I've just added a new Velociraptor 300Gb drive to the mix and tried to boot off my Vista x64 disc and install and everything goes according to plan except for when it gets to the copying files part.
The first stage of "copying files" works, but the 2nd stage of "exapnding files" just sits at 0% for ever.
I've tried unplugging all my drives and just leaving the 300gb Velociraptor on there by itself and I get the same behaviour.
Booting back into my windows install on my RAID 0 array with the 300gb plugged in, I can see the drive and the few mb of temp files the vista installer put on there, and i've written several Gb of data and read it back from the drive and it sounds OK.
Im a system administrator and have worked with PC's for 10 years, I've handled all this kit well and Im fairly certain its not broken, its just Vista x64 Ultimate isn't playing ball :/
Any ideas?
I have a Q9450 @ 3.6ghz in there, 4x1gb corsair ram and as i said a Asus P5E motherboard.
Any help much appreciated.
The first stage of "copying files" works, but the 2nd stage of "exapnding files" just sits at 0% for ever.
I've tried unplugging all my drives and just leaving the 300gb Velociraptor on there by itself and I get the same behaviour.
Booting back into my windows install on my RAID 0 array with the 300gb plugged in, I can see the drive and the few mb of temp files the vista installer put on there, and i've written several Gb of data and read it back from the drive and it sounds OK.
Im a system administrator and have worked with PC's for 10 years, I've handled all this kit well and Im fairly certain its not broken, its just Vista x64 Ultimate isn't playing ball :/
Any ideas?
I have a Q9450 @ 3.6ghz in there, 4x1gb corsair ram and as i said a Asus P5E motherboard.
Any help much appreciated.