i enabled the raid controller as well as my sata ports in my bios. then, entered the raid utility where i did everything i was told to and i did see a post after exiting that i had a healthy array. so, i started installing windows(hit f6 to make sure i got to install raid drivers) installed once,reboot when prompted,installed drivers again and continued to install windows. when i was inside windows a few minutes later i went to "my computer" and there was only 1 drive. then when i went to "disk management" there were two-one was system,the other unallocated. from there i formatted the unallocated drive which made a second inaccessable hd popup in "my computer". i think the mistake has something to do with this...ive also tried installing the nvidia drivers & rebooting once inside windows before formatting with no luck... i have taken my time and exhausted alot of possibilities and came to the conclusion that im still doing something wrong. does anyone have their raid setup with nvidia mediashield? thats my controller.i could get the version # if it would help. thanks for trying to help me though,guys.
this just crossed my mind. my hdd's are brand new and my mobo is older so could it be firmware or something like that? the hdd's are 7200.11's with the perpendicular recording.
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MSI K9N Diamond
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1900XT
4GB(2x2) A-DATA DDR2 800
Seagate 500GB 32MBcache x2
Windows XP Pro SP2
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