| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 64043 | 2005-12-01 03:07:00 | Reinstalling XP & RAID | bk T (215) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 409150 | 2005-12-01 03:07:00 | This friend has messed up his pc with RAID 0 created. Now he wants to reformat and reinstall XP Pro. Is the procedure the same as reformatting /reinstalling a single drive? Is partitioning still possible? Cheers |
bk T (215) | ||
| 409151 | 2005-12-01 03:12:00 | You can partition when u go to format it with the XP cd. I wouldnt bother using RAID 0. If one hdd dies so does the other. A waste of time. He may need the RAID drivers, off the motherboard cd, (they have to be on a floppy), and enable RAID in the BIOS. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 409152 | 2005-12-01 03:14:00 | Setup is the same except you will need the raid drivers on a floppy disk. Boot off the XP CD as normal BUT just after the blue screen first comes on there is message across the bottom that says Press F6 to install SCSI / RAID drivers. Press F6 and wait for the screen to come up that says Press S to specify.... then it will tell you to put the disk in the A: Just follow your nose from there. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 409153 | 2005-12-01 03:35:00 | Setup is the same except you will need the raid drivers on a floppy disk. Boot off the XP CD as normal BUT just after the blue screen first comes on there is message across the bottom that says Press F6 to install SCSI / RAID drivers. Press F6 and wait for the screen to come up that says Press S to specify.... then it will tell you to put the disk in the A: Just follow your nose from there. So, am I right to say that the rest of the installation procedure is the same as setting up a single hdd? And, partitions can be created as desired? Am I also right to assume that when a partition is created in HDD1, it also creates a partition in HDD2 (RAID 0)? Cheers |
bk T (215) | ||
| 409154 | 2005-12-01 03:43:00 | You are correct. Once you have installed the RAID drivers Windows XP setup sees the HDD's as one (as long as you have setup the RAID in the BIOS) and the partitioning etc is the same as if you only had one HDD. | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 409155 | 2005-12-01 10:21:00 | Thanks folks for all the info. Cheers |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1 | |||||