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My system is in the sig except the Velociraptor got cloned to my 500Gb Seagate drive and I'm currently running off that. So yesterday my two WD Caviar Black drives come in and I want to stripe them.
1st attempt: I went into the BIOS and switched the SATA mode from IDE to RAID, rebooted, and went into the RAID BIOS to build the array. That went fine to I went back to reboot from the Seagate so i could clone it onto the new RAID array. But it starts loading and blue screens telling me I have a corrupt disk. But if I switch the SATA mode back to IDE it boots fine. I'll also note that there's no place I could find to set individual SATA channels to RAID and non-RAID.
2nd attempt: I set SATA back to IDE mode and booted from the single drive. I wanted to setup the RAID array through the Intel Matrix Storage Manager but it will not install! Partly through the installation a window pops up telling me my system does not meet the requirements for the software.
3rd attempt: Then I figured I go into the device manager and format the drives there and build the array. Again, partly through the process it tells me I can't do it.
4th attempt: Finally I thought I'd just boot from the Acronis CD and clone the drives there. It booted from the CD fine but when I went to clone the drives it told me Acronis couldn't find any disk drives! Realizing I still had the SATA mode set to IDE, I rebooted and set SATA to RAID. After that, it refuses to boot from the CD telling me there's a configuration error on the CD.
I'm about ready to rip my hair out! I always use onboard RAID and have had other P45 boards with excellent Intel RAID arrays but this one refuses to take. I tested both drives and everything checks out fine. It seems to me to be a problem with the motherboard or more specifically the RAID controller. If I can't figure it out I'll try removing the single drive, setting up the array in the BIOS and seeing if Vista will install on it. Any suggestions?
1st attempt: I went into the BIOS and switched the SATA mode from IDE to RAID, rebooted, and went into the RAID BIOS to build the array. That went fine to I went back to reboot from the Seagate so i could clone it onto the new RAID array. But it starts loading and blue screens telling me I have a corrupt disk. But if I switch the SATA mode back to IDE it boots fine. I'll also note that there's no place I could find to set individual SATA channels to RAID and non-RAID.
2nd attempt: I set SATA back to IDE mode and booted from the single drive. I wanted to setup the RAID array through the Intel Matrix Storage Manager but it will not install! Partly through the installation a window pops up telling me my system does not meet the requirements for the software.
3rd attempt: Then I figured I go into the device manager and format the drives there and build the array. Again, partly through the process it tells me I can't do it.
4th attempt: Finally I thought I'd just boot from the Acronis CD and clone the drives there. It booted from the CD fine but when I went to clone the drives it told me Acronis couldn't find any disk drives! Realizing I still had the SATA mode set to IDE, I rebooted and set SATA to RAID. After that, it refuses to boot from the CD telling me there's a configuration error on the CD.
I'm about ready to rip my hair out! I always use onboard RAID and have had other P45 boards with excellent Intel RAID arrays but this one refuses to take. I tested both drives and everything checks out fine. It seems to me to be a problem with the motherboard or more specifically the RAID controller. If I can't figure it out I'll try removing the single drive, setting up the array in the BIOS and seeing if Vista will install on it. Any suggestions?