lazer_viking
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For chirstmas I got two Western Digital 36 GB Raptors and I want to put them in RAID 0. I started off by putting them in my computer of course. I put my old 180 GB hard drive on SATA 3, and the two Raptors on SATA 1 and SATA 2. I went into the mobo's BIOS and did some stuff (I can't quite remember what it was.. something like enable RAID on SATA 1 and 2 or something). Then I went back out and pressed F4 to enter nVidia's RAID thing. I set up "striping only" with 32kb stripes. Then I put in my Windows install disc and pressed F6 to install third party RAID or SCSI drivers and this is where the trouble began. Apparently, the supplied drivers don't work with the 64 bit operating system. I downloaded nVidia's 64 bit version of the drivers and stuck em on a floppy. When I went back to try them it's like it wasn't even reading the floppy disk. It would just say enter a disk into drive A:\ and press enter even when there was a disk in the drive and I was pressing enter. I assumed "well maybe the USB floppy drive isn't going to work here". So I went out and bought an old school one ($5.99!! didn't know they were so cheap). But now it looks like I don't have the right kind of power adapter for it. Is this a common size I can get at my local computer store??. AND, as I was playing with my stuff last night (I was just so excited about my drives, I wanted to install windows on at least one of them to see if I notice a speed difference) it said something like "please create a windows-compatible partition on this disk, even after I created the partition right there on the window's install CD. It works just fine on my 180 GB hard drive. Just for giggles I tried it on that drive to see what was up to see if it would let me format it and it did. It wont get to the formatting screen on the Raptor(s). So anyway, after deleting all partitions off all my drives and not knowing what to do now, I shut off my computer. When I tried again in the morning it said "DISK BOOT FAILURE. PLEASE INSERT A SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" even when there was my Windows install CD in the drive.
So yeah, as you can see, I have a lot of problems now :[[. tech-forums always comes through for me when I need it the most. Don't fail me now!! lol thanks in advance :]]
So yeah, as you can see, I have a lot of problems now :[[. tech-forums always comes through for me when I need it the most. Don't fail me now!! lol thanks in advance :]]