Lajaycee

John,

Thank you for the inquiry. To specifically answer your questions:

1. Yes,, my striped raid array was set as bootable and as primary.

2. No, I had no IDE drive, but I did have another SATA drive.

I actually read abnother post where it was suggested to remove all but the
primary drive and attempt installation again - the thought being that Vista
was possibly installing the MBR on a secondary drive.

I tried disconnecting the secondary drive, and the installation worked this
time. I am now booting properly without the CD\DVD needing to be installed.

Thanks for the support!
--
Because I Can


"John Barnes" wrote:

> Do you have an active primary partition on the drive? Do you also have an
> IDE drive?
>
> "Lajaycee" <Lajaycee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8E39185B-7D7C-4B16-8100-108519ED329C@microsoft.com...
> >I have built a new computer:
> >
> > ASUS M2N E SLI
> > AMD FX 5400
> > 2GB RAM
> > 2 Hitachi 250G HDD in RAID 0 Stripe Array
> >
> > Installed Ultimate without any apparent problems. After complete,
> > realized
> > that computer will not boot up without a Windows CD/DVD in drive.
> >
> > Deleted partitions, array, and tried different nVidia RAID drivers, and am
> > getting same results.
> >
> > Finally tried installing XP Pro, and I gett the same result. If a
> > Windoows
> > CD is not in the drive during boot, I will get the NO SYSTEM DETECTED
> > error.
> > This would indicate to me the problem is not with Windows, but probably
> > related to either drive or RAID drivers, but I am at a loss.
> >
> > Can anyone provide some insight or direction?
> > --
> > Because I Can
>
>