Help installing WinXP on Mirrors
08 September 2004, 02:27 PM
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Help installing WinXP on Mirrors
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upgrades MOBO to GA-7NNXP with xp2800 - see other thread - does seem to run hot but I;m on top of that.
Anyway - got a maxtor 160Gb SATA drive on the Sil3112 raid controller - installed winxp - works fine until BSOD after upgrade of adio drivers - thats another story.
Anyways - as the controller supports RAID 0 and 1 - I get another driver and opt for a mirrored approach - go into bios and set up raid set 0 with the 2 drives to run mirrored.
Load up winxp and add the raid driver from FD, all the files copy and the installation reboots to go into gui mode.
Then I get the message:
I looked it up on msdn and it tells me to correct boot.ini ? fine not a problem - but what do I update it to ?
Anyone any experience of installing winxp to a mirror set ?
Should I install to a single disk then setup the raid array in the bios ?
Puzzled.
T.
Total story of wo...
upgrades MOBO to GA-7NNXP with xp2800 - see other thread - does seem to run hot but I;m on top of that.
Anyway - got a maxtor 160Gb SATA drive on the Sil3112 raid controller - installed winxp - works fine until BSOD after upgrade of adio drivers - thats another story.
Anyways - as the controller supports RAID 0 and 1 - I get another driver and opt for a mirrored approach - go into bios and set up raid set 0 with the 2 drives to run mirrored.
Load up winxp and add the raid driver from FD, all the files copy and the installation reboots to go into gui mode.
Then I get the message:
Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.
Anyone any experience of installing winxp to a mirror set ?
Should I install to a single disk then setup the raid array in the bios ?
Puzzled.
T.
08 September 2004, 03:48 PM
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I suspect you destroyed your windows installation when you chose RAID 0 which is striping. You should have gone with RAID 1 for a disk mirror.
This page tells you what the various RAID Levels are http://www.logitel.co.uk/raid.htm.
You are trying to implement a hardware RAID solution so install both disks, configure the array as Raid 1, then install the OS.
Cheers.
This page tells you what the various RAID Levels are http://www.logitel.co.uk/raid.htm.
You are trying to implement a hardware RAID solution so install both disks, configure the array as Raid 1, then install the OS.
Cheers.
08 September 2004, 07:16 PM
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Cheers - when I said raid set 0 - I mean logical raid drive 1 - which was actually raid 1 i.e. mirror.
If only it were as simple as my DL380 with Raid 5 !
If only it were as simple as my DL380 with Raid 5 !
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