When I put my new sweet machine together a few months ago, I was pretty surprised that I setup the RAID 1 configuration and Windows just installed flawlessly. Well, after getting sick, moving etc, I’m now finally getting things really setup on it. So I decided to wipe the drive(s) and start from scratch. Now Windows doesn’t want to recognize the RAID drives. I know I could probably make a floppy to load the drivers, but I currently don’t have a floppy drive in there. I’m going to have to mess with it more tonight. Since it’s a RAID 1 (mirroring) I’m going to try to install on one drive and then mirror the second. I know that wouldn’t work with stripping or some of the other RAID types. If it totally blows up in my face, I’ll at least have learned a lesson.
I’m running an Asus A8n32-SLI board with two 160gb WD SATA drives. I really like the BIOS, it’s just the Windows installation that’s being annoying. Any ideas?
I have that same motherboard, and absolutely love it. But I’ve never tried any kind of RAID on it. I probably should sometime.
Some recent ASUS boards have the ability to boot from flash drives and treat them as a floppy. Check under the USB options. When you get in the advanced settings, you can tell it to filter USB mass storage devices by size. I’ve used this before to tell the motherboard a 128mb flash drive is a floppy so that I can run boot utilities or bios flash software from a USB key instead of floppy.
I don’t know if yours has this, but it’s really handy.
I was trying to do that, but the USB drive I was using was pretty crappy and it didn´t want to work