Setting up Raid 0 on windows xp home edition

[blue4paper]

As the title reads for the past day or so i've been trying to set up a RAID 0 on my computer.
So far i have the raid drivers on a floppy disk and 2 HD set up. The only problem that i'm having is finding the BIOS setting about enabling RAID controllers. I couldn't find any words with raid in them, but i did enable IDE controllers. Also from reading on about going into the RAID bios settings by hitting F10 is it? i couldn't seem to get that working too.

So in summary my 2 problems are :

-Finding the BIOS setting enabling RAID controllers
and
-Finding the Flash/Raid Bios

 

[Peter.Cort]

does your motherboard support IDE raid?

ie, whats your motherboard.

 

[KSoD]

I would not suggest running RAID with IDE drives. You will not gain anything.

 

[blue4paper]

Ah, well i guess i'll disable the IDE controllers, but i'm quite sure my motherboard enables RAID, i found the folder my motherboard cd rom. Although i'm bad with hardware stuff here is a picture and a file of the motherboard with the motherboard instructions in the raid folder.

 

[Peter.Cort]

well there's your problem... ecs... but yeah, ide raid isn't that neccisary unless you are bored and want to try something new...

 

[EricB]

I would not suggest running RAID with IDE drives. You will not gain anything.

I'd listen to mak if I were you.

 

[bla!!]

Your mobo documentation says you can only set up RAID on the SATA drives.
Do you have at least 2 SATA drives in your rig?

 

[blue4paper]

heh, all i saw on mine were hitachi so i'm guessing they're not sata. Bah. Ah well at least now i know, thanks for the quick response though.

 

[EricB]

you willl have problems if you raid 0 regular drives. you should only raid 0 scsi drives which were made more durable to withstand the half reliability hit that you get by running raid 0

 

[blue4paper]

forget what i said in my previous post, one of my drives is SATA while the other one is IDE