raid on dual boot drive

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I just want to put my storage drives into raid 1, so I won't be reinstalling my OS or anything. What I need to know is if this is going to work; I have vista ultimate x64 on one partition, and one xp pro partition. I'll have to install raid drivers when the system is booting so will be the same for both, but there are different drivers for 32 and 64 bit, I do believe, so which ones do I use, or is this possible? I'm using the onboard nvidia raid controller.

thanks,
rlr
 
You're saying that your storage drives are entirely separate from the OS boot drive? If so: you don't need to install RAID drivers at the earliest stages of boot, you'll be doing it when you get into each OS, where you would install the relevant driver for that OS. So you boot Vista x64 and it asks for the 64-bit driver (if it doesn't already have a suitable one), and you boot XP Pro and it wants the 32-bit driver. Because the RAID array is not on your boot disk this shouldn't cause problems, you just won't be able to see the storage disk array until you have drivers installed.
 
Mithent said:
You're saying that your storage drives are entirely separate from the OS boot drive? If so: you don't need to install RAID drivers at the earliest stages of boot, you'll be doing it when you get into each OS, where you would install the relevant driver for that OS. So you boot Vista x64 and it asks for the 64-bit driver (if it doesn't already have a suitable one), and you boot XP Pro and it wants the 32-bit driver. Because the RAID array is not on your boot disk this shouldn't cause problems, you just won't be able to see the storage disk array until you have drivers installed.
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So where do I install the drivers? They're already in the nforce driver. Do I just need to change it in bios for those disks?

thanks,
rlr
 
You set up the RAID array in the BIOS or wherever, and then when you boot Windows, it should find new hardware and either install drivers or ask for them.
 
If you are not booting from the array you should just be able to install the necessary drives in each OS and you should be fine.
 
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