install to SATA RAID

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I am trying to install WinXP Home to a SATA RAID 0 setup.
It is a full install, not upgrade. Setup cannot recognize
the mass storage devices and install progress results in
stop screen. Waht do I need to do, the array is setup
correctly and the drives are now logical and formatted.
What do I need to do?

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I am trying to install WinXP Home to a SATA RAID 0 setup.
It is a full install, not upgrade. Setup cannot recognize
the mass storage devices and install progress results in
stop screen. Waht do I need to do, the array is setup
correctly and the drives are now logical and formatted.
What do I need to do?
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Your motherboard installation disk set should contain SATA raid
drivers that are applicable. Of course it might be wise to check the
MB manufacturer's website to get the very latest ones.

I assume you have gone into the BIOS and set first boot device to CD
to install Windows and the second boot device to SCSI (well this is
how it goes in my Gigabyte board's BIOS). Then there is a setting to
further configure SCSI which is the boot order is changed to SATA.

During Windows setup right at the beginning at the bottom of the
screen it says if you need to load drivers press F6 - do this
(sometimes it needs to be pressed more than once to register for some
reason). When files are loaded it will come up with a screen to load
the drivers (by pressing s) which you should have placed on a floppy
disk. BE AWARE there are two sets of drivers, one to use the
controller as a base device and another for raid (mine are suffixed r)
so make sure you have the right ones!

Once you have pressed s and then the 'enter' key the driver will load
and the Windows installation will proceed - do not eject the floppy
until the installer tells you to before it reboots and then let it do
its own thing - resist the temptation to tell it to boot from the CD
again it knows to go from the HDD.

Good luck with the installation - I hope yours proves less problematic
than mine! I was never able to use the RAID array as my boot up C
partition as the installation would fail, or crash once Windows was
actually installed. I have ended up with a separate HDD for Windows
and using the array for everything else. This I attribute to driver or
OS incompatibility as the actual array works well.

If you have time let us know how you get on and what hardware you are
using.

HTH
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