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[Guest]

i recently upgraded my windows xp to vistas and now my operating system will
not work without the windows vista cd in my driver. when i put the cd in the
driver and boot up my pc it asks me "which operating system i would like to
use then it takes me to another screen as asks me would i like to boot it
normally, safely, and some other stuff. what the hek is going on?

 

[Richard Urban]

You have multiple hard drives in your computer?

If yes, physically disconnect all but the drive you want to install Vista
upon. After a successful install, shut down the computer and reconnect your
additional drives. You will likely see that the problem no longer exists.

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User

 

[Guest]

What if I am using a Mirrored set? Will I kill the RAID?

 

[Richard Urban]

I don't use RAID. I have never used RAID. You are on your own as I can't
assist you.

I can tell you that one other person I suggested this to did it and it
worked. After the fact he told me he was running in a RAID configuration.
Had I known before hand I would not have suggested this to him. But, he
says, it worked for him also.

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User

 

[Guest]

Thanks Richard. I've got a little messing around to do with my system yet.

 

[cvp]

Assuming it's hardware RAID you're talking about, the RAID set will appear
to Vista (and the system BIOS) as a single disk. Then, counting that as the
only disk, everything Richard said would be true.

 

[Guest]

It's Intel Matrix RAID.

Assuming it's hardware RAID you're talking about, the RAID set will appear
to Vista (and the system BIOS) as a single disk. Then, counting that as the
only disk, everything Richard said would be true.

 

[cvp]

That's hardware - so Vista won't even know it's there. Though I expect
you'll need to use the Intel drivers during install.