Raid Drivers

Grasshopper

Grasshopper

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I'm going to be assembling my first build shortly and am curious as to whether or not I should install the Raid drivers even though I'm not going to initially use a Raid configuration (just starting with 1 drive). :confused:

Maybe I'm more confused than I think I am, but I was hoping to avoid having to un-install Windows in order to install the drivers at a later date. Any advice will be greatly appreciated! Thanks. :)
 
No you can install them when you do the raid config.. But if you have a SATA hd then you will need the raid (sata) drivers that came with the HD. You install them when it says press f6 to install raid drivers on install screen.
 
Trizoy said:
No you can install them when you do the raid config.. But if you have a SATA hd then you will need the raid (sata) drivers that came with the HD. You install them when it says press f6 to install raid drivers on install screen.
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Yes I'm going to use a SATA H.D.D. (Maxtor MaxLine III), but as I said earlier, just 1 to begin with (get the second in a few months). So you're saying that I'll have to install the drivers for the SATA, but not the RAID??? :confused: (First build, limited computer experience in general, so please clairify) Thanks for the info.
 
Ok, first things first. What motherboard? When you want to setup a RAID, you have to do so on a "hardware" level (in BIOS) and on a "software" level (when you boot off the Windows CD, press F6 to install 3rd party RAID drivers). Before you do this, you have to make a RAID driver disk. Your motherboard disk should include the RAID drivers for your motherboard chipset on the motherboard CD. All you have to do is copy the RAID drivers from the CD to a floppy. Now back to booting from Windows CD.....once you hit F6, you will be prompted to specify the drivers, hit S. It will automatically look in the floppy drive (thats why you need that floppy driver disk). Point it to any required drivers and you are good to go. One thing though, you will have to reformat. Keep in mind, using a RAID, you are tricking your computer into thinking two harddrives are one, thus, it will format them both as one drive.
 
randruff said:
Ok, first things first. What motherboard? When you want to setup a RAID, you have to do so on a "hardware" level (in BIOS) and on a "software" level (when you boot off the Windows CD, press F6 to install 3rd party RAID drivers). Before you do this, you have to make a RAID driver disk. Your motherboard disk should include the RAID drivers for your motherboard chipset on the motherboard CD. All you have to do is copy the RAID drivers from the CD to a floppy. Now back to booting from Windows CD.....once you hit F6, you will be prompted to specify the drivers, hit S. It will automatically look in the floppy drive (thats why you need that floppy driver disk). Point it to any required drivers and you are good to go. One thing though, you will have to reformat. Keep in mind, using a RAID, you are tricking your computer into thinking two harddrives are one, thus, it will format them both as one drive.
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Thank you.
The board will either be the Intel D955XBK or D9454PVS (most likely the D945PVS, can't see myself tossing out $1000.00 for an Extreme Edition processor anytime soon) both of which do come with the drivers for RAID. So anyway, I'll either need to cough up the extra $$$ for the second drive now, or plan on starting from scratch later on? I reckon I'll just spend the $$ now, because avoiding the loss of data is the whole reason for going RAID 1 anyway. Thanks again randruff. :)
 
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