Dual Boot With RAID 0 advice!

Hi,

Trying to add xp to dual boot, but when I put xp cd to install it says that there are no harddrives connected to the computer!

I'm sure this is something to do with the Raid setup. Can anyone help. I have googled but can't find specific help.

Thanks!!!

 

You need to slipstream SATA drivers.

 

i too, tried to install another partition to my raid 0 and i just cant seem to get it happening... i dont know if raid 0 supports having more than 1 partition?
anyone?

 

There is another guy in the forum with 3 HDD in raid 0 partitioned in 3 parts. (Can't remeber who) So it's possible. No expert myself, just knows that it should work. As soon as i get my computer i want to do it myself.

Don't you have to use a external floppy drive to install XP 32 on the 9262?

 

You have to use external floppy or slipstreamed sata drivers for any install of Windows XP on a computer that uses only SATA hard drives.

I prefer the slipstream method using Nlite, there are tutorials online, use the SATA drivers you can find on the Sager CD.

I partitioned my computer using the Windows XP cd itself, works fine.

Since the RAID is done by the raid controller on-board, windows thinks it is a single hard drive, you can do anything you want with it.

If you are trying to get a second partition on your setup, are you doing it from scratch or are you trying to avoid formatting your entire drive?

If you are not formatting your entire drive, the process gets tricky, trying to create a partition out of empty space.

 

there are a few programs that can help, This being one of them. If your trying to keep your current data and add another partition.
no vista support if you have that installed first.

If you have XP and wish to add a partition for Vista, then this is an option.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PartitionMagic

 

Thanks Guys, have found out some more info from the leads above, if anyone has done the above (so now I have Vista & want to put on xp) would be great if they could provide anymore specifics.

I also have a third drive, smaller than the other so I assume that this is not in raid 0 format, this is where I was going to install XP.

Cheers

 

IN regards to running a stripped array(raid 0) on devices of different sizes, usually the arrays are set up so that they are only as large as the smalles device....so if you have 1x100gig and 1x240gig and 1x250gig and had them in a raid 0 array i think you will only get 1x300gig array....i know it does this for mirroring(raid 1) so i think the algorithim is similar for raid 0

 

http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp

This is only if you do NOT have an extra partition

if you already have an extra partition, it is plug and play, you just need slipstreamed SATA drivers, do a google for nlite

 

Yes, it is the same for any version of raid, incl. raid 3,5 and 6. By the way, I would never use Raid 0 for anything else as scratch data. A 3-member raid 0 set will give you 3 times as much chance of loosing all of your data as with a single disk. If I had two disks in my notebook, I would set them up as a raid 1 set. If one disk fails I would still have all of my data. And remember, Windows will not tell you a disk is slowly failing. Using the S.M.A.R.T. counters of the disks to warn you is a bit too difficult for Uncle Bill's programmers.

 

Hey Guys,

Can anyone direct me to the sata drivers on the driver cd? there is nothing that jumps out as being the sata drivers on the cd or the web site? I see the matrix & the raid drivers are these the ones?

Cheers