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    Studio 17 Raid Driver

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Jasoncmor, Mar 5, 2009.

  1. Jasoncmor

    Jasoncmor Newbie

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    Hi all.

    I have a Dell Studio 17, with vista.
    I want to be able to dual boot with XP, but am needing a raid driver.
    I have installed XP on a partition on the hard drive but if I want to boot up XP I have to change the option in the bios, which does get a bit of a pain.

    So does anyone have an xp raid driver for the studio 17?

    Cheers.
     
    Jasoncmor, Mar 5, 2009
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  2. aidil

    aidil Notebook Evangelist

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    There is no word of RAID found if you look at Studio 17 specifications. AFAIK, the 2 drives are not RAID-able.
     
    aidil, Mar 5, 2009
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  3. Jasoncmor

    Jasoncmor Newbie

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    I'm not trying to raid the drives. I need a driver to be able to use the drive on the sata controller.
     
    Jasoncmor, Mar 6, 2009
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  4. aidil

    aidil Notebook Evangelist

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    Which version is your Studio? 1735 (PM/GM965 chipset with ICH8 southbridge) or 1737 (PM/GM45 chipset with ICH9 southbridge)?

    If you know which one, then you should be able to download the SATA controller driver from intel website:
    http://downloadcenter.intel.com/default.aspx
     
    aidil, Mar 6, 2009
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  5. Jasoncmor

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    I have the 1737 model, thanks for your reply.
     
    Jasoncmor, Mar 8, 2009
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