Vista and RAID ) on Asus P4C800 Deluxe

[Colin]

Hi,

I'm keen to give Vista a try (dual booting with XP) but was just looking
for a few answers.

1) To dual boot can I install Vista to a clean partition when already
running XP and have a boot menu?

2) My mobo supports RAID, and I have a RAID 0 set up just now for XP. Will
Vista automatically detect the Promise 378 and maintain the RAID array I
have already? Asus have no Vista drivers as far as i can see.

(I will of course make a backup of all important data before doing anything,
but was going to be reinstalling XP from scratch anyway soon)


Look forward to some help.

Thanks

Colin

 

[Guest]

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Jim

 

[Colin]

Well i took the plunge. Having found out that the XP RAID drivers work as
long as they are not inside a folder on the floppy or USB stick. When i got
to the select drive part of the install process i clicked install drivers,
Vista located the XP Promise 378 driver and updated the drives available to
show my raid array.

Everything else has gone fine with the install except for the following:

SoundBlaster Creative Game Port (Audigy 2 ZS)
Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 webcam
Logitech MX3000 cordless desktop (mouse and keyboard)

Not had too much chance so far to tinker but am likeing the look and feel

Colin

 

[Guest]

Maybe because I'm using the Intel raid controller and not the Promise.