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    No raid out of the box?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by idiotpilot, Nov 27, 2008.

  1. idiotpilot

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    My friend recently bought a 6860 after all the good things he had heard from me. As soon as he booted it up he clean installed vista and attempted to set up raid0 in the bios.... only problem was that he didn't have the option to. I had no problem accessing it from the bios on my computer, and we supposedly have the same bios version (or so he claims). Does he need to make separate partitions? Or maybe his bios is out of date?
     
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    or maybe he needs to install the 2nd hard drive?
     
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    Thank you Captain Obvious! :D

    Yes and then he reinstalls Vista AFTER he has enabled RAID in BIOS and then configured it via the RAID config utility that you are prompted for after the BIOS screen.
     
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    ^^Yep thats pretty much the ticket.

    You have to install the hard drive before the BIOS will give you the RAID option.

    Though i'm curious as to what your friend wanted to accomplish running a RAID 0 array with only 1 drive :p
     
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    Always here to point out the OBVIOUS solution. You should see the new Superzero Suit I'm having tailored.. a big "O" on the chest.. :)

    Suppose if you partition the drive then you can pretend it's in RAID?
     
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    D'oh, he did have another seagate disk he stole from his old rig that he used, shouldve mentioned that. We found out the issue though; he installed vista before setting up the configuration... big ol DOH to that one.
     
    idiotpilot, Nov 28, 2008
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