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    Setting Up A Raid

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by ZevoOptik, Dec 8, 2008.

  1. ZevoOptik

    ZevoOptik Notebook Consultant

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    Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldnt find any info on it. I have an alienware m17, and just received my two seagate 7200.3 320gb drives. I want to swap out the stock 160gb for these, and set them up in a raid 0.

    The last time I did this was in XP, and I needed a raid driver when installing windows that I downloaded from intel's site. I am not able to find any raid driver, so how does one go about setting up a raid 0 in vista premium 64bit?
     
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  2. E-wrecked

    E-wrecked BANNED

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    You should be able to handle it without any drivers being downloaded.. I haven't setup RAID with the OCZ yet. However, drop both HDDs in and when you reboot just hit F2 to boot to BIOS. Then change the HDD Settings to RAID, reboot.. it should at that point give you the option to maybe use "Ctrl+i" - that's the Gway option - at boot to enter the Intel Matrix Manager and then create your raid array. Otherwise, you may also need to disable the flash screen @ boot in order to see what the keystroke functions are to configure raid. Just keep in mind you're doing a fresh install.. and both drives will be wiped.
     
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  3. Luthi3n

    Luthi3n Notebook Consultant

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    Ya, I didn't need to install any drivers. Just go into the BIOS as E-wrecked said and enable RAID, save an exit. System will reboot and hit Ctrl + I to get into the Matrix Manager and it is pretty straight forward from there. Took me 2 minutes tops to get it setup.
     
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  4. Mortemia

    Mortemia Notebook Geek

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    Thanks for the info guys. I haven't had any experience with setting up RAID before, so all help is welcome.
    So after setting up RAID, should I use the alien respawn recovery dvd or does AW provide me the Vista install dvd too?
     
    Mortemia, Jan 22, 2009
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  5. eleron911

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    I don`t know how AW works, but I think that`s just a Vista CD/DVD and all the rest you have to install yourself.And I base this on absolutely nothing. :D
    Again, I have no idea what the respawn dvd contains, I`m not familiar with out of this world technology :p
     
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  6. E-wrecked

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    lol.. out of this world tech. You can use either the respawn or a Vista DVD - Once the RAID array is configured, it's seen as a single hard drive. Soo.. then it's entirely up to you what you prefer to do software wise.
     
    E-wrecked, Jan 22, 2009
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