Will Not Recognize An Existing RAID Arrays
Apr 20, 2008
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.....
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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.
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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:
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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.
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