I installed Vista recently doing a fresh install. When i did it, it only had 1 drive visible when i have 2 of the same drives. In my bios i do not have the drives turned on to RAID i just have them in their naitive modes. I installed Vista and now it set up a RAID 1 all by itself. Has my C Drive as MIRROR[0][2] SCSI Disk Device. Now i want to stop this so i can use the other drive. Can i do this with out a reinstall? Or what would happen if i whipped on drive then plugged it back in , would this clear the other as well?
I need to know what would be the best optition for top performance.
Raid Settings
RAID 0
128KB Strip
It said in raid settings this is for top performance. 64KB for the other not sure what it was. Also should i remove the RAID and then do a full format then low level or just leave the RAID as it is. And what should i make it RAID 0 RAID 1 or RAID 5 for performance. I'm a gamer.
I thought I had been able to make a backup of a Vista Ultimate System on a Raid0 array (C: partition using the standalone Acronis True Image 10 boot disk) and copy it back to a non-Raid disk. For some reason Vista will not boot correctly and the Vista boot disk Repair Option thinks about it for 5 minutes or so and then says it can't fix the problem. I know I have done this trick with WinXP and I thought I had done it with Vista. I know I can do the save/restore routine (Raid0 to Raid0) with the Acronis standalone software. what I have to do to get a Raid0 version of Vista Ultimate transferred to a non-Raid disk using all the same hardware.
I have the Vista Ultimate System on a network so I can backup to a different controller and hard drive, delete the array, reformat using Partition Magic 8.0 and restore. The only reason I am trying to do this trick is because the SATA controller on the motherboard does not support Raid Arrays and SATA DVD Drives together...and...I want to install multiple SATA DVD Drives on this system.
I'm have a couple of problems and I was hoping someone here could help with the solutions.
I wanted to use a raid setup with vista ultimate x64. But I had problems with my raid bios. I went ahead and installed and activated vista any way in a non raid configuration. Now that I have my raid bios issues fixed I would like to setup my raid array. The problems and questions I have are:
1. I didn't realize it but I left the bios setting for my sata set to raid. I don't have the raid set up just the setting at raid. When I change it to ahci vista won't startup and my machine reboots. If I don't want to or can't do the raid array how do I fix this? Since I've already activated vista can I reinstall it? I believe I did install the raid driver at install time.
2. If I do want to do the raid array can I do that with vista already installed on one of the drives?
I'm currently running a non-RAID setup but for convenience would like to set up a RAID 1. My C: drive is 1TB and it contains my OS and all my media files. Currently I manually back up my music and video files on a couple other dissimilar sized hard drives. Since I get new music and movies fairly frequently, the backup process is fairly tedious so I thought RAID 1 would be useful. If I went to RAID 1 could I simply add another 1TB HD and would all my data automatically copy? Or would I basically have to back up all my data from the 1TB drive, reformat, add the new drive, and perform a fresh Vista install with RAID 1 enabled, then copy everything from the backup drives to the RAID 1 array?
I have a set up with RAID 0. I want to install Ubuntu on an external drive. I have read a post in the Ubuntu forums about disconnecting all internal hard drives and only using the attached external drive to install the OS. My question is if I disconnect the RAID-ed drives, will the RAID remain intact after the external drive OS install and the reconnection of the RAID-ed drives? Or will I damage the RAID and have to reinstall my Windows OS?
System specs: ASUS M2A-VM mobo, Athlon 64x2 5400, ATI RAID utility, Vista Home Premium x64, Catalyst 8.9
I don't kno all that much about HD drives and RAID.. I'm not sure what to do here, but I have my main HD in my new system.. it's a 500GB Seagate Cuda the 32mb Cache 7200.(11) version.. it's a pretty good HD I've read. and currently just plugged in.. no special way or RAID setting or anything. I also have my old computers 250GB HD in here. I moved everything over from my old PC.. and just been lazy and have not taken the 250GB out.. well now I'm going to take it out.. and sell that computer... and from a freind I'm getting a deal on a 250GB HD..
So my question is what can I do with it.. What advantages can I get with using RAID 0 or 1 or whatever. it's a 250GB Spinpoint Drive. I don't kno what RAIDS all about.. how much performance will I gain with it.. whats the best way to hook it all up? I want to have my stuff backed up.. not everything. but the important stuff thats on my 500 I want to have on this new 250 I'm getting.
My pc was configured in raid5 but I lost all the data. Since then I decided to go back to the classic drive C,D,E each by themselves. The point is that things are going slow / sometimes I try to access drive D with music and there is a significant latency in the hdd response. I can even hear the sleepy drive waking up. I might want to aim to high but here is what I dream to do.
1. I want to go back to a raid configuration in which all those hdd(i have 3x 500 sata) to work hard for me. 2. Find a way to add the fourth one in which to save important data. I case of crash to reinstall vista and all the soft without losing all my projects. I am doing video editing.
My motherboard has a sata external connector. What would you guys do with this configuration in order to set up a raid. Don t tell me trash it 'cause i won t. I paid more than 4000 bucks last year. Today might value less than 2000 ( hurts so bad). This is another reason I want to squeeze as much as possible from what I have.......
what exactly is RAID MODE. i mean i have seen it in my BIOS and all. can u guys check my HDD and see if it supports a RAID SETUP. i heard you can get better ratings with RAID. right now it is just hooked up via sata cable. Newegg.com - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
Made image of disk using Macrium Reflect Restart and setup Raid in Bios, then using ctrl-i, use Intel Matrix Storage RAID to make Raid0. Then using Reflect I restore the image. But when I then reboot I get a very fast BSOD and Vista won't boot. In safe mode it seems to lock when loading crcdisk.sys. After doing alot of research it seems that I may need Raid drivers. So question is how can I instal the Raid drivers without losing all my data? I don't want to reinstall windows.
Managed to kill my raid 0, 1 terabyte games drive today. Absolutely shattered. Maybe ten hours worth of installs on that drive. To say that I am upset is an understatement. You live and learn. Will be purchasing an extra backup drive exclusively for backing up this drive. Never will I feel this pain again
I recently purchased a HP Pavilion M8430F - It came with a single 750 Gig drive and has Vista x64 installed, - I added a second 320 Gig Drive that had data only on it - Recently i have saved all that data to the Vista drive now i would like to install XP Pro on the smaller drive and dual boot them both - OK Vista runs fine XP install Crashes - my onboard Sata Controler is set to Raid that is the only way vista will boot - if i switch it to IDE i can install and run XP but like i said vista will not boot-up switch it back to raid and Vista will boot XP will give a blue screen - The pc came with a single drive and the default setting in the bios is RAID
Noob person needs help setting up RAID 1. I have the following hardware and I would like some help in turning this into a RAID 1 storage vault. Two (2) Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB 32MB HD (WD10EADS) Vantec NexStar MX (NST-400MX-SR),Switching Jumper 1&2 are ON,Switching Jumper 3&4 are OFF, At the moment, both drives are up and running.
Shortly after installing Vista SP1 I have started to get message "a drive in Raid 0 is failing". This sounds bad. I have tried running checkdisk on my hard drive but it does not show any problems. If I reinstall the OS from scratch, will it fix the problem? Or is this a hardware problem?
I posted in another thread with a similar topic. In that thread i got my SATA drives setup in a RAID 0 configuration. Now i would like to setup my 3 IDE drives the same way. I am using a VIA software RAID utility for my SATA's. I have no idea where to start. I searched the internet and it seems most of this is only done with Linux boxes. Can anyone point me to a tutorial on how to setup an IDE RAID 0, Right now in my BIOS i have the SATA ports set to RAID and not IDE, will this make a difference? I have 2 drives on one IDE bus and 1 plus my dvd drive on another IDE bus. Both buses connect to my motherboard. How can i get my IDE drives to show up in my VIA RAID utility?
Just bought (should arrive in a day or so) a Lacie 2Big Dual 1T external raid drive (via eSATA). Just a quick thought, As I plan to use it in a Raid 0 set up do I need to make any adjustments to my bios or install the JMicron drivers so Vista can utilise the raid as well as my other three, non raid, sata drives. I've looked at the manual and doeesn't mention any thing about it. Or is it simply plug it in and forget.
I just built a new system using a GigaByte MA-790FX-DS5 motherboard / 8GB RAM (4x2GB - DDR2 - PC8500-1066)/ Athlon X2 - 4850e with 2 150GB WD-Raptor drives / 20x Pioneer DVD Burner. (Plan to replace the Athlon with a 45nm Phenom later in the year). Using a SATA RAID 0/AHCL configuration on the SB600 connectors. XP32 loaded without any major problems and is running fine.
I've run the Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool loaded by Vista using the Extended tests and it appears to be fine.
Tried to install Vista 64 on a Primary Partition. The SATA drivers were loaded. 2.5.1540.47 from GigaByte and later tried the MSI 2.5.1540.48 build for the same SB600 chip. Attempted installation about 6 times with failures occurring at varying points in the installation. I understand from Googling the issue that many, many people have had similar issues attempting to install Vista 64 with a RAID 0 using AHCL on the SB600 chipset.
I want to purchase 4 1 TB disks to be used as DVD storage on my Vista 64 machine. I want to basically rip all my DVD's to my computer so that I can share them via Media Center to my kids (who have a tendancy to watch DVD's until they can't be played any longer and ruin them with their finger prints.) and so I don't have to get out of my chair to put in a movie any more. I figure that creating a RAID 5 configuration would be best since I can use three disks to create the RAID 5 and have one hot spare. (you work in the IT field long enough, you realize that hard drives are the most unreliable part of a computer:-))
My mother board supports this, but I really don't want to use the Hardware raid since I would have to put my primary drive into a raid 0 configuration which would mean re-installing Vista and using the drivers on my mother boards cdrom when it comes to installing drivers for the controller. I was wondering if Vista even has this capability before I shell out $400 for the disks. Since nothing else will be written to the RAID other than the movies, I'm not too worried about write performance. My main question is does Vista 64 Ultimate support RAID 5 configurations, or should I bite the bullet, and make it a hardware RAID5?
I'm running Vista Ultimate x64 on a 75 gig drive (way too small). Is it possible to setup a additional 2 drives in a RAID 1 array in addition to this drive? Or do I need to do a fresh install of Vista to recongize the drive(s)?
Second, if I can do the first, without needed a fresh install, why does it crash at crcdisk.sys when I enable the SATA ROM BOOT so the RAID can be done? I'm using ASUS A8R-MVP mother board. It has the newest version of the bios already installed on it (version 6003). I've tried to update the ULi RAID drivers, but I'm not having any luck. When I use the ULi RAID tool on boot-up, it says I'm using V1.1D M5288. I grabed the ULi drivers from NVidia (ULi integrated 220 bundle) and it won't install. I used WinRar to open it up and I grabbed everything out of the SATAM5288 directory and booted from my Vista DVD and tried to load those drivers, it fails.
I built this system and installed VISTA 64 and all my other software before I decided to build a RAID. A few weeks after start-up, I bought a couple new drives and wanted to build a RAID.I could set the BIOS up for RAID, type Ctrl+I, assign the RAID drives, but then I would get a BSOD before the Windows Boot GUI. This happened no matter what ports the RAID was in as opposed to the port positions of C: and/or my DvD drive.
I had to install the Intel Storage Matrix Manager. no luck there either. When I double click IATA88ENU.exe it tries to run, but returns "Computer does not meet the minimum system requirements. Set up will exit........
i am obviously completely new to this, but i was wondering if it were possible to "RAID" partitions on one hard drive? Say i were to slpit a hard drive into even fourths, could i then set it up to pull data off the partitions as one like RAIDed hard drives? no specs needed just hypothetical question
I recently formatted my hard drive so I could set up a RAID array. Windows Vista is now asking me to activate it again, but it wont accept my product key because it says it is an upgrade edition. I already upgraded from Windows XP to Windows Vista, I don't know why it wont accept the key. Is there anything I can do?
I'm attempting to set up a new PC with RAID 0 using Vista x64 Home Edition Premium. However, I'm having no luck. (Hours of scouring various forums have yielded nothing as well.) I've set up 2 RAID 0 partitions across my 2 SATA drives using Intel's Matrix Storage Manager. (CTRL + I thing at boot) When I load up Vista for installation, it recognizes the partitions but refuses to let me install on them. I get an alert at the bottom of the screen saying that my "...computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."
I'm not completely clear on what this means, but after entering BIOS, I have my drive configuration set to configure SATA as RAID. Attempting to continue the installation yields something like "Windows cannot find a drive that is suitable for installation" (not verbatim, sorry.).........
I have vista business 64bit installed on my 8 core mac pro and I have the ATTO ul5d installed. I also have Mac OS installed on another internal drive and that is what I am most familiar with. I have no prior experience with windows or PS's. On the Mac OS side I have 6 15k scsi drives in and external case and they are striped in a raid 0 using softraid. I know that I can not use softraid or even use those drives in vista. But I also have another 6 drives in another case that I would like to stripe in a raid 0 and use them in vista, for photoshop scratch. Is there any raid 0 software for vista?
First, my appologies: I tried a HW group first with this question with no response. I know some folks here are knowledable about Promise RAID. I should have x-posted instead of multi-posting, but I thought I'd get an answer in the other group.Anyway...I have a mirrored setup on a Promise RAID built-in controller. One disk wentbad. I removed it. The remaining disk continues to operate normally - fornow. However, I get a "critical" warning from the RAID controller every time I boot - but it does succeed without issues.
I would like to eliminate this warning and continue with only one disk.Preferably in a single-disk non-RAID config. But, whatever.How can I do that? Do I have to rebuild from scratch? What happens if I use [ctrl-F] to enter the RAID management and simply "delete the array"? Will I be able to reconfigure to boot from that remaining disk or will it require to be rebuilt completely as a single IDE?
I am running a dual boot system, XP and Vista. See below for system components. I have been using the Windows XP OS with two RAID 1 arrays with no problems. The arrays were created using the BIOS, and XP was installed with the Intel RAID drivers (via floppy during initial setup). For the two arrays to accessed (read/write) I found I had to use XP's Disk Management utility and convert the arrays to "Basic Disks". I was not worried about the warning of loosing data on either array as they were blank, no data.
I recently installed Windows Vista, and found this OS will not recognize the two existing RAID arrays. I can not see either arrays with "My Computer" nor with "Windows Explorer". Therefore I can neither read nor write to these RAID arrays.....
I have ordered a bunch of pc parts. I am positive that they are all compatible. They are all vista 64 compatible. I have already gotten all the necessary drivers from the manufacturers' websites. I have never loaded vista on a machine. So, having said that, here are my questions. After I put it all together, What do I need to do before I load vista64? I have 2 sata HDDs but I am not going to use RAID. Will I need to install raid/sata drivers with F6 during the installation? I am listing the main bits of the machine below. Will Vista's default drivers be enough for me to get going so I can use the drivers that I got from the manufacturers?
Just built new pc, loaded vista 64 home basic, works well in sata ide mode. I have three 1.5tb seagate hdds & want to run them on raid 5. Bios set on ide mode all sata drives can be seen, reset to raid they disapear in bios? On start up (in raid mode) shows healthy raid 5 at 2.72tb, load vista from dvd, gets to load drivers & it will not find any. If I browse disc I can see the file, select it & it does not find it, says no drive found? No advanced option availabe.
I bought a laptop HP Pavilion DV9428, AMD Turion X2 2.2GHz, 2 Gb RAM, 2 x Toshiba 120Gb HD (device manager says SCSI !) I would like to mirror my main HD to the 2nd one in the event of a HD failure. I searched in my owner's manual and in Windows help file and could not find any information on how or if it can be done.
