Wayneb

The problem is related to the bios, when the raid controller is enabled and a
raid array installed the bios no longer lists the array disks so I cannot set
boot order.

When it is just the array disks connected the on board raid controller
detects the array and boots up into Vista.

When another disk is added the bios detects this drive and sets it as the
only boot up option overriding the raid controller. Thus when booting up the
third disk is set as boot disk which obviously won't work becuase there is no
operating system installed.

The only way round the problem that I can see is to somehow copy the boot
manager onto the third disk and 'poin' it to the raid array. That esentially
is the problem that I am trying to resolve.



"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
>
>