Is My Vista 64 Raid Array Working?

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geographicus

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I have a Vista 64 system which I just installed (I think) on an Raid 0 array.

Asus Striker II NSE Motherboard
8 Gigs Ram
2 1 Terrabyte WD internal SATA drives configured into a raid arrray

Here is the questions. I chose a striped array when setting up the hard drives. In bios and in the raid utility it seems to suggest that everything is running fine. Says I have one drive, capacity 1863.54 GB.

1. Shouldn't it be only 1 Terabyte as I have the drives configured as Raid 0. Is this an indication that somethign is wrong?

So I installed windows vista 64. Installation seems to have gone fine, but since I could never find the correct drivers (via anywhere on the web!!!!) for Vista 64 on the nVidia chipset, I didn't install any additional raid drivers.

now my remaining questions are

2. Is the raid array functional or not? What happened?
3. If not, do I rebuild the array and start over?

Third question. When I restart my computer, widnows will not boot unless the windows CD is in the cd-rom drive - even though it is ultimately booting off of the raid drives.

Please help.

Kevin
 

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Hi Kevin, Welcome to the forum.

geographicus said:
1. Shouldn't it be only 1 Terabyte as I have the drives configured as Raid 0. Is this an indication that somethign is wrong?
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No it is correct RAID 0 will show the combined disc size

geographicus said:
2. Is the raid array functional or not? What happened?
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Yes it would seem so


geographicus said:
Third question. When I restart my computer, widnows will not boot unless the windows CD is in the cd-rom drive - even though it is ultimately booting off of the raid drives.

Please help.

Kevin
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When you install windows on a RAID you would normally have to give in the RAID drivers from the motherboard CD to be able to see your Drive. Which would show up as one single drive, which you can partition and install to. If you did this then windows is most probably installed.

If it will not boot then you will probably have to install the RAID drivers while Windows is running

Pooch
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self build
    CPU
    Phenom II x4 Black Edition 940-Arctic-Cooling Freezer Xtreme
    Motherboard
    Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe
    Memory
    8 gig Samsung PC800 RAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVidia 9600gt
    Sound Card
    AD1988b
    Monitor(s) Displays
    22" TFT-MONITOR WIDESCREEN mit VGA/DVI 17" Video7 TFT
    Screen Resolution
    1680 : 1050 1280 : 1024
    Hard Drives
    Drive #1 - SAMSUNG HD252HJ (250 GB)
    Drive #2 - Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 (1000 GB)
    Drive #3 - SAMSUNG HD250HJ (250 GB)
    Drive #4 - SAMSUNG HD103UJ (1000 GB) External eSATA
    PSU
    Thermaltake Toughpower Cable Management 750W
    Case
    Enermax Chakra
    Cooling
    2x 120mm Front and Back 1x 250mm Side
    Keyboard
    Standard
    Mouse
    Easy Line Laser Mouse
    Internet Speed
    16000
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    I have also used Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu Linux
    And all other Windows from 95 to date except ME
Hi Kevin and welcome to Vista Forums :party:

Here is a link that explains RAID RAID - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Basically, RAID0 is a STRIPED array, the total capacity of which is equal to the sum of the individual drives in the array. RAID1 is a MIRRORED array, where the total capacity is equivalent to just one of the drives (assuming 2 identical drives).

There is a driver available from NVidia for your motherboard nForce Driver

Download this and extract the contents and save them to a removeable USB key. When you install Vista, at the appropriate point you will need to instruct it to load the drivers.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/68767-clean-install-upgrade-vista.html Step 13
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117366-clean-install-full-version-vista.html Step 10

Click on Load Driver and insert the USB key and browse to the IDE folder. There will be a sub-folder, sataraid, so select that. Select ALL the drivers that the installer detects.

When Vista has finished installing, you will need to install the rest of the drivers from the ones you downloaded earlier.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dwarf Dwf/11/2012 r09/2013
    CPU
    Intel Core-i5-3570K 4-core @ 3.4GHz (Ivy Bridge) (OC 4.2GHz)
    Motherboard
    ASRock Z77 Extreme4-M
    Memory
    4 x 4GB DDR3-1600 Corsair Vengeance CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B (16GB)
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI GeForce GTX770 Gaming OC 2GB
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition on board solution (ALC 898)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    ViewSonic VA1912w Widescreen
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900
    Hard Drives
    OCZ Agility 3 120GB SATA III x2 (RAID 0)
    Samsung HD501LJ 500GB SATA II x2
    Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 1TB SATA II
    Iomega 1.5TB Ext USB 2.0
    WD 2.0TB Ext USB 3.0
    PSU
    XFX Pro Series 850W Semi-Modular
    Case
    Gigabyte IF233
    Cooling
    1 x 120mm Front Inlet 1 x 120mm Rear Exhaust
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 3000 (USB)
    Mouse
    Microsoft Comfort Mouse 3000 for Business (USB)
    Internet Speed
    NetGear DG834Gv3 ADSL Modem/Router (Ethernet) ~4.0 Mb/s (O2)
    Other Info
    Optical Drive: HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH10LS30 SATA Bluray
    Lexmark S305 Printer/Scanner/Copier (USB)
    WEI Score: 8.1/8.1/8.5/8.5/8.25
    Asus Eee PC 1011PX Netbook (Windows 7 x86 Starter)
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