RAID drivers .. help!

brunoxyz

brunoxyz

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Hello. A friend bought this pc which has XP media center installed by default and a RAID configured.
I installed XP pro on the second hard disk, as a second OS, (we need to do this for other reasons) but I had to disable the RAID in the bios to do that.. because I couldn't install XP with RAID activated. I guess this is because I dont have the RAID drivers , you know F6 and all that.. The PC didn't come with a floppy or anything,, ofcourse.

Now.. I dont know, where the hell I could get those drivers.. I dont know if they should come with the HDD.. or with the mobo,, I'm a noob in all this RAID thing.. by the way, do you guys think the floppy wit the drivers will be the solution ?

Thanks a lot in advance.

The PC: (HP m7680n)

Mobo: Asus P5BW-LA (custom hp model.. it is not present in the asus website)
HDD: 2x 250 g samsung SATA (i dont remember the model now,, I will update it later)
nvidia 7300LE PCIE
intel core 2 Duo processor.
2g memory.
 
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Now I dont know what kind of raid it has configured in the XP media center..

I guess he wont need that anyway.. not sure. He needs the PC for Video editing.

I have searched the drivers a lot, but I dont have a clue.. am I suppoused to look for them in the HDD manufacturer Website? or in the website of the Intel chipset?. . Where?

thanks in advance.
 
no, they are not there,, I also called the hp technical support,, and nothing, they just dont have it.. or they didn't want to give it to me,, for some reason.

thanks though
 
thanks a lot.. I will try with those.. thanks.


and ,, a second question.. is there a way I could install these drivers without reinstalling windows?

when I activate the raid in the bios,, the pc restarts trying to load windows XP pro.


thanks.
 
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brunoxyz said:
thanks a lot.. I will try with those.. thanks.


and ,, a second question.. is there a way I could install these drivers without reinstalling windows?

when I activate the raid in the bios,, the pc restarts trying to load windows XP pro.


thanks.
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Not really, if you want to raid entire drives then you must rebuild them from scratch

The only way to go around this would be to implement a software raid and only raid together a portion of the drives, leaving the unraided prortion to hold the OS… this would a be far from ideal solution
 
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Can somebody tell me.. how can I get to the Raid Controller Bios menu to choose which RAID to setup. I tried ctrl + J it didnt work. Should I install the raid driver via floppy and then try to setup the raid. ??
 
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