Vista - Vista on Asus P4c800 dlx - Promise 378 RAID

Hi,

I'm keen to give Vista a try (dual booting with XP) but was just looking
for a few answers.

1) To dual boot can I install Vista to a clean partition when already
running XP and have a boot menu?

2) My mobo supports RAID, and I have a RAID 0 set up just now for XP. Will
Vista automatically detect the Promise 378 and maintain the RAID array I
have already? Asus have no Vista drivers as far as i can see.

(I will of course make a backup of all important data before doing anything,
but was going to be reinstalling XP from scratch anyway soon)


Look forward to some help.

Thanks

Colin

"Colin" wrote:

> 1) To dual boot can I install Vista to a clean partition when already
> running XP and have a boot menu?

yes, during installation setup will ask where you want install Windows Vista
(c:\ or f:\ etc.). A boot menù will be created an so you can start windows
vista or previous windows xp.

> 2) My mobo supports RAID, and I have a RAID 0 set up just now for XP. Will
> Vista automatically detect the Promise 378 and maintain the RAID array I
> have already? Asus have no Vista drivers as far as i can see.

I think it's supported. If a device is not recognized I suggest also to
check for drivers updates in Windows Vista hardware control panel and you got
new drivers. I've got sound blaster live drviers in this way!

I think there is an issue with the drivers for the Promise 378 at install
time. I believe someone here posted that the problem is that windows wasn't
looking in the right directory and the files on the floppy needed to be
moved to the root directory to be found. You might want to do a search on
this newsgroup and see if you can find the post.
"BillD" <BillD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C5846B42-9341-4B14-8C8B-278D5F2630B4@microsoft.com...
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>
> "Colin" wrote:
>
>> 1) To dual boot can I install Vista to a clean partition when already
>> running XP and have a boot menu?
>
> yes, during installation setup will ask where you want install Windows
> Vista
> (c:\ or f:\ etc.). A boot menù will be created an so you can start windows
> vista or previous windows xp.
>
>> 2) My mobo supports RAID, and I have a RAID 0 set up just now for XP.
>> Will
>> Vista automatically detect the Promise 378 and maintain the RAID array I
>> have already? Asus have no Vista drivers as far as i can see.
>
> I think it's supported. If a device is not recognized I suggest also to
> check for drivers updates in Windows Vista hardware control panel and you
> got
> new drivers. I've got sound blaster live drviers in this way!
>
>