Vista 64Bit Raid 1 crcdisk.sys crash

[Kantoo]

I installed Vista Ultimate 64 bit on a non raid 500gb wd hard drive. After
using it for about 2 months with no problems I decided to buy another
identical wd 500gb hard drive and configure the system for raid 1. Once the
drive was installed and the array built, when trying to boot the system it
loads the os as far as crcdisk.sys then blue screens (to quick to read) and
reboots. The same occures when booting in safe mode. If I delete the array I
can still boot fine from the original single disk, but this defeats the
purpose of buying the second disk to configure mirroring. I tried the vista
system repair and it said it couldn't fix the problem. Does anyone have any
ideas how to fix this issue? I would rather not do a full reinstall of the os
if possable. Thanks for any help offered!

 

[Kantoo]

Forgot to mention these are SATA drives on a XFX NForce 680i LT motherboard
using it's built in sata raid with 4 GB PC6400 RAM. Thanks.

 

[SimRacer]

RAID arrays requier RAID controller drivers, these drivers are usually
installed when the operating system is installed. Not sure about the nForce
680 series but I do know with Intel controllers that there is a RAID ready
setup for building a system with one hard drive and then adding a second
drive and building the array at a later time. With the Intel controller it is
still required to install the RAID driver during the setup of Windows.

I would suspect your problem is similar and you didn't install the nessisary
driver when you installed Vista. If you go to www.nvidia.com and then to
there support page they have a section on RAID and nforce motherboards.

If I'm correct you may just have to do the reinstall and build your RAID-1
array using the driver during the installation of Vista. I'm running RAID-0

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I suspect you are refering to KB929777.

It is not true that Vista x64 will not install on 4GB of ram because I did
it just yesterday in setting up a new system. What is apparently true is
that if an 800 dimm is in the fourth socket on a mobo with an nVidia chipset
then it might not. The system I installed has 4GB installed with 2x2GB
dimms. It has to do with memory controllers that do 32-bit DMA. It is the
fourth dimm, not the amount of ram that seems to matter.

And it is not as simple as all of that either. The choice of ram is of
course critical. The memory voltage rating of the dimms is not within the
range of the factory settings in the BIOS then there is some effect also.

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[Paul Shapiro]

To second Colin's observations, I recently installed Vista64 on an Intel P35
chipset machine with 8GB ram (4 x 2GB modules), without any problems.

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