a7n8x-e Bios setup with SATA raid 0 boot

[powertoys]

I currently have 2 SATA maxtor 120 gig HD's as raid 0 on drive F:\
and a very small Quantum fireball >4gig IDE HD as master boot as my C:\
drive .
I've installed a fresh winxppro w/sp1 OS's on both my IDE and SATA drives so
I have the option to boot to either drive OS. I want to eliminate my small
C:\ drive, but am having difficulty booting to the SATA drive without my C:\
drive present. Any ideas to configure my bios SATA first boot option? Thanks
for all your help in advance.

 

[powertoys]

I currently have 2 SATA maxtor 120 gig HD's as raid 0 on drive F:\
and a very small Quantum fireball >4gig IDE HD as master boot as my C:\
drive .
I've installed a fresh winxppro w/sp1 OS's on both my IDE and SATA drives
so I have the option to boot to either drive OS. I want to eliminate my
small C:\ drive, but am having difficulty booting to the SATA drive
without my C:\ drive present. Any ideas to configure my bios SATA first
boot option? Thanks for all your help in advance.

Reinstalling xp after removing IDE drive. For some reason or another I could
not do this from the get go.I hope I can set the bios to scsi for 1st boot.
Seems logical they should have an SATA 1st boot option.

 

[dino]

why not remove it and try a repair?

 

[DD]

Did you load the SATA RAID driver when you installed XP on the array?
Without it your expensive RAID array is useless as anything but a data
drive.

 

[Mercury]

Pull out the C drive.
Check boot settings in bios - have cdrom 1st then sata.
Run XP repair and install the sata raid drivers with F6.
Reinstall chipset drivers
Reinstall service packs
Reinstall critical updates

I would recommend getting XP SP2, but if you have not had it installed and
confirmed all is 100% then this is not realy the time to bung it in.

You do realise that raid 0 doubles the chance of volume failure?