RAID doesn't appear in boot options when other IDE drives present

[Roger]

Rebuilding an existing system.

P4C800 Deluxe mobo.

Have successfully configured and installed a RAID0 array with Windows
XP. If I disconnect all existing hard drives, I can boot from the RAID
and can run Windows XP.

If other hard drives are attached to either IDE connector, the RAID
doesn't appear in the boot list.

There's a failed WinXP (re-)install on the old master drive, if that
matters. I'm going to try to see if I can set the drive without WinXP
to master, leave off the old WinXP drive, and see what happens.

Thanks!

-- Roger

 

[IanDunbar]

Rebuilding an existing system.

P4C800 Deluxe mobo.

Have successfully configured and installed a RAID0 array with Windows
XP. If I disconnect all existing hard drives, I can boot from the RAID
and can run Windows XP.

If other hard drives are attached to either IDE connector, the RAID
doesn't appear in the boot list.

There's a failed WinXP (re-)install on the old master drive, if that
matters. I'm going to try to see if I can set the drive without WinXP
to master, leave off the old WinXP drive, and see what happens.

Have you changed the boot order in the bios? needs to be something like;
SCSI, HD, CD. Sounds like you've got HD first and it's trying to boot the
old (failed) XP install.

HTH

Ian

 

[Ben Pope]

Rebuilding an existing system.

P4C800 Deluxe mobo.

Have successfully configured and installed a RAID0 array with Windows
XP. If I disconnect all existing hard drives, I can boot from the RAID
and can run Windows XP.

If other hard drives are attached to either IDE connector, the RAID
doesn't appear in the boot list.

There's a failed WinXP (re-)install on the old master drive, if that
matters. I'm going to try to see if I can set the drive without WinXP
to master, leave off the old WinXP drive, and see what happens.

Just to clarify <not built in IDE> = SCSI, regardless of whether it's SCSI
or ATA. About time they changed that really.

Ben

 

[JBM]

Rebuilding an existing system.

P4C800 Deluxe mobo.

Have successfully configured and installed a RAID0 array with Windows
XP. If I disconnect all existing hard drives, I can boot from the RAID
and can run Windows XP.

If other hard drives are attached to either IDE connector, the RAID
doesn't appear in the boot list.

There's a failed WinXP (re-)install on the old master drive, if that
matters. I'm going to try to see if I can set the drive without WinXP
to master, leave off the old WinXP drive, and see what happens.

Thanks!

-- Roger

In the BIOS under the boot menu / hard drives
make sure the hard drive you want to boot is
in the 1st position. Do the same thing under
CDroms and removable drives. Then each drive listed first in each of the
other menus
will show up in the boot priority menu and
can be manipulated there.
One thing I don't like is I'm booting from
a raid array and have a removable drive on
the IDE port. If I remove that drive I have
to play with the boot in the BIOS again.
I wish Asus would make it so that if the
drive I was booting from is still attached then
it would boot from that drive, regardless of
other drives I've added or removed.

 

[Roger]

In the immortal phrasing of Homer Simpson: DOH!

Thanks all for the prompt and helpful solution.

I also ran into the problem whereby adding or removing any IDE device
resets the priority list for drives. I was trying to recover data from
the failed XP share and had to remove it to mount on a 9x machine.

On that note, sysinternals.com makes a nifty freeware app for mounting
NTFS shares on 9x.

Thanks again,

-- R