xiowan

Hi andy:
Have you tried going into your bios and moving the raid drives to the top
of the boot order? If I remember right, when I installed the pre-release
vista on one of my pcs and added a hard drive it showed up in the bios as the
first choice to boot from and of course had no O.S. and couldn't. Might take
a look and see if your raid drives got moved down in the boot order.

xiowan..........in tucson

"andy" wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:20:01 -0700, Wayneb
> <Wayneb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >
> >I have Vista installed on a SATA Raid, the installation went well and
> >everything is working as planned. However when I try to add a new SATA drive
> >(not in the RAID array) my BIOS sets this new drive as the default one, and
> >so unable to boot into Vista.
> >
> >My problem comes in the fact that my BIOS cannot see the RAID drives and so
> >defaults the only other drive to the bootable default.
>
> The BIOS has to be able to detect the RAID drive. Otherwise you
> wouldn't have been able to install and boot Vista. So what are you
> claiming? That when the new SATA drive is installed, the BIOS no
> longer has the capability to detect the RAID drive?
>
> >
> >Is there any way I can create a boot manager on this new drive to point to
> >the RAID drives and the Vista installation?
> >
> >Regards
>
>