configure raid to run a single bootable HD

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fiendclub63

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i have a asus p5AD2 board with 1 ide and two raid ports. I need to use the raid port for my single hard drive (Ide port for 2 cd-roms).
I have tried pressing f6 during installation with the required files on a floppy. sofar so good. It asks for a for a floppy with a couple of driver files on it (from my motherboard disk).
Press "s' for setup and then press enter for the os type (winxp pro).
It then only goes in circles saying press s to setup scsi/raid then next step press enter for OS.
How the hell do i get around this?
Alternatively, a computer tech told me to boot into dos. I have NTFS for a start. Doesn't the winxp floppy startup disks consist of 5 disks?

My question is what do i need to do to be able to configure my hard drive so i can setup up winxp?

Yes i have configured bios to run raid in ide mode because the comp tech configured it for me : )
 
Well you are running into the same thing a friend recently saw with a SATA drive being used as a stand alone without an ide drive as host. Eventually a spare ide drive being used to dual boot two OSs was loaned out when he was asked if he wanted to use the drive temporily to check out the new biuld and until the XP installer was able to actually detect the SATA drive. That will be in that case for a long, long, long time now.

An ide host is where the drivers are supposted to go due to the ide controller overriding the SATA. Arrays were primarily intended as mirror images for storage. There is a startup floppy image for booting an XP system that only require one disk. That is available at http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
 
He wants to run it as a stand alone like someone I know. The XP installer wouldn't even see the WD 200gb SATA that was being setup there as the single drive. The prompt for the driver disk came up the same way. But when looking like it was copying the files the system suddenly hung there. The one thing I wanted to mention was that the XP boot floppy won't be quite the same as an older FAT32 type when booted from. But it will give you access to an existing installation. That you still don't have yet.
 
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