P5Q Pro Raid Question

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magus0216

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Here's my setup that I'm trying to get working. I have 2x250gb sata drives that I want to make a raid 0 array to hold my media and such (no problem here, did this on my last board successfully). However, I don't want this to be my bootable partition. I have a separate 80gb sata drive that I would like to boot from so my os is separate from my data. Windows has already been installed on this 80gb drive.

I booted up the system yesterday for the first time, installed vista, and got everything up and running and now I'm working on adding the raid array. However, when I go into the bios I have the option of configuring my sata drives as either raid or not and I'm wondering if this is going to prevent me from using the other 80gb sata drive as a standalone to boot from. I only put the system together yesterday so I haven't had much time to work on it. I'll try again when I get home from work, but any advice in the meantime would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
You can leave the boot drive out of the raid array.

You will have to reinstall (or otherwise futz with the drivers). I tried switching mine from ACHI to RAID last night and it BSOD on me.
 
Yea you may be able to switch but chances are you will have to do a reinstall with the right drivers.

But boot into windows, Install the drivers, shutdown, create raid, reboot.....see what happens.
 
Thanks for the quick replies. One question. If I reinstall vista is it going to bitch about my hardware being different and give me activation headaches because of the new drives? I know in xp when I was swapping things around it locked me out because of this. This is a legit copy I got through my university so I only have 1 product key to work with. I don't mind having to reinstall if it's necessary since I don't have much loaded on yet but I would rather not if I didn't have to. I guess I'll try installing the raid drivers first and if that fails I'll go with a reinstall as long as I'm ok activation wise.
 
not sure, I reinstall often enough that I haven't bothered to activate my copy of Vista yet... I believe there is a number you can call and they'll give you a new activation key... but don't quote me on that
 
I Reinstall all the time usually go no more then 2 months.
I have yet to have an issue.
 
I just reinstalled Vista in a VM, and it asked me to call M$, no biggie, just read the numbers to your friend in India and he will read back the activation key. I've done this many, many times.
 
BababooeyHTJ said:
Im so glad that Im not the only one like that.
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Heh, I used to be like that, but my current Vista x64 install's been going strong for a good eight months now.

A yearly reformat is good enough for me, as well as keeping backup images of a clean install as well - definitely speeds up the process. :)
 
Syntax Error said:
Heh, I used to be like that, but my current Vista x64 install's been going strong for a good eight months now.

A yearly reformat is good enough for me, as well as keeping backup images of a clean install as well - definitely speeds up the process. :)
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That is something that I need to invest in. I plan on picking up a decent sized drive at some point.
 
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