Ninjadragon
Geek Trainee
Hi, i don't know much about computing, so sorry in advance.
I recently bought a 2nd hand computer with really nice specs, including Vista Ulimate and dual 74gig raptors in raid0 (I think). It was working fine except the occasional freezing/problems during hard gaming sessions which i put down to incompatibility with Vista. Yesterday I decided to install xp pro. I am not sure what happened (I didn't open the case or change any sort or configuration) but I didn't get far into installing xp pro before the system told me it couldn't detect either of my hard drives. I thought it might be a RAID problem (don't ask me why) so I went into the raid set up during booting and deleted the raid0 array. I have tried also booting with the Vista disk as well as xp pro but each time my raptors aren't detected and therefore the OS can't be installed/fixed. I have been to the Western Digital website and downloaded/created their drivers/utilities but I suspect they aren't vista compatible. The apparently bootable discs weren't recogised (the iso images/driver weren't detected by both the vista setup and xp pro setups. I don't know what else to do. I have contacted the seller as he made it all work previously but he hasn't replied yet.
Can anyone help? And thanks in advance if you can.
I recently bought a 2nd hand computer with really nice specs, including Vista Ulimate and dual 74gig raptors in raid0 (I think). It was working fine except the occasional freezing/problems during hard gaming sessions which i put down to incompatibility with Vista. Yesterday I decided to install xp pro. I am not sure what happened (I didn't open the case or change any sort or configuration) but I didn't get far into installing xp pro before the system told me it couldn't detect either of my hard drives. I thought it might be a RAID problem (don't ask me why) so I went into the raid set up during booting and deleted the raid0 array. I have tried also booting with the Vista disk as well as xp pro but each time my raptors aren't detected and therefore the OS can't be installed/fixed. I have been to the Western Digital website and downloaded/created their drivers/utilities but I suspect they aren't vista compatible. The apparently bootable discs weren't recogised (the iso images/driver weren't detected by both the vista setup and xp pro setups. I don't know what else to do. I have contacted the seller as he made it all work previously but he hasn't replied yet.
Can anyone help? And thanks in advance if you can.
