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| Thread ID: 53395 | 2005-01-16 07:49:00 | Persistent first drive not show ?? | lightfoot (39) | Press F1 |
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| 314790 | 2005-01-16 07:49:00 | Persistent first drive not show . I have two drives . Quite often the computer does not detect the first drive which the operating system is installed when startup in dos mode . If I put win 98 startup disk and boot it up, at the moment the first drive is not detected . The two drives are mounted on a raid and they are the only two drives in the computer . This problem often happened in the past whether the one drive was mounted straight on motherboard (ATA 33) and one was mounted on raid card (ATA100) . Any suggestions/explanations would be appreciated . |
lightfoot (39) | ||
| 314791 | 2005-01-16 08:16:00 | welcome to pressf1 lightfoot, are you using win98 by anychance? im not sure but does win98 support raid? a few more system spec's would be handy, if you dont know your system spec's, download everest (www.lavalys.com)this will tell you everything about your pc |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 314792 | 2005-01-16 08:33:00 | This happens in win98 and currently just upgrade to win2k. Yeap, win98 supports raid. I have been using raid card on win98 for awhile since the motherboard did not support large drives , but this is a new motherboard. However, I decided to run my two drives on raid card since it's ata100 instead of ata33, faster I think. Thanks | lightfoot (39) | ||
| 314793 | 2005-01-16 08:45:00 | was this a clean clean install of 2k? isnt raid combining 2 hdd and making them look like 1? |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 314794 | 2005-01-16 08:53:00 | RAID 0 is Striping, combining two hard drives to look like one. RAID 1 is Mirroring, writing all data to both hard drives, so if one fails you don't lose your data. |
Zygar (29) | ||
| 314795 | 2005-01-16 08:56:00 | It is a clean install but does not seem so clean. At present first drive can be detected. I will have to pull the plug on second drive for it to detect. I would like to do some ghosting but the first drive is not shown when boot up with startup disk, however, when in windows both drives show up. | lightfoot (39) | ||
| 314796 | 2005-01-16 09:06:00 | I mean the first is not detected in dos when using startup disk, but is detected in windows. This often happens, but not sure why . | lightfoot (39) | ||
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