Hardware Raid 0 in windows xp pro

[Guest]

I recently added two new identical 10k WD hard drives to my custom built PC
They are identical in size and plugged into the NVidia raid controller built
into my ASUS a8n-sli premium motherboard. The array has been built and shows
up in device manager but when i check out the details it says its not
initialized and it doesnt show up under my computer, I was curious if anyone
could help me get this raid array up and working, Thanks for any help you can
offer.

 

[DL]

What type of Raid?
Where are you checking 'Details'
You have Partitioned/formated in Disk Management?

 

[Guest]

Well just having a "RAID" array set up doesnt mean it's running in RAID,or
was set up to the board.1st,set it up in the BIOS,set up for SATA or IDE
RAID,
usually found in "on chip serial ATA",once thru in the BIOS,you should also
get a "Post" screen description of the RAID set,if you dont see a post screen
at every system start,then its not configured in the BIOS.In xp,go to run,
type:diskmgmt.msc In msc,L.click on the RAID set,go to actions,all,set to
make active.

 

[Guest]

its a raid 0 array
i am checking details in the device manager where it shows up under disk
drives as NVIDIA STRIPE 138.49G
i am not sure how to get to disk management

 

[Guest]

your mention of disk management lead me to what i needed thanks

 

[DL]

You are aware that raid 0 has no redundency? lose one hd you lose all

 

[Guest]

I have this same problem -- RAID array shows up in device manager, but not in
computer (no drive letter). The array has data on it, and was running fine
under XP until I replaced my boot disk. In disk manager I don't want to
convert dynamic disk, because I'd have to format. When I try to "import
foreign disk" I get an error.

Any ideas? I'd sure like to access my array again . . .

I notice that device manager lists the array as VIA SATA RAID 0 SCSI, when,
in fact, these are not SCSI disks.

clyde

 

[Yves Leclerc]

It is quite normally for XP to treat any "add-on" card as a SCSI device.

You need to add the RAID drivers to the XP. XP can only access the RAID disks
if the driver is installed, which looks like it is not.

 

[Guest]

I've loaded the VIA controller drivers. Device manager show the array
enabled, with microsoft drivers. Updating those doesn't find anything newer.
Still get the same error when I try to import the Array in diskmanager.

So . . . I'm baffled. Any help appreciated.