Vista RAID problemo...

K

Kyonu

Geek Trainee
Hey guys, first time on the forum, because I seek help...

I am a computer technician, and have been playing with/building/fixing computers for 12 years, but today I have a particular problem that I have never ran into before.

I have a friend, and his computer setup looks like this (I built it for him with a different harddrive configuration, and it worked.) ::

MSI K9A2 Platinum V2 Mobo
AMD Phenom X4 9950 BE
Corsair XMS2 DDR2 1066 (4 x 2GB)
2x Diamond HD4870 X2 in Crossfire (Video works fine)
2x LG Blu-ray Burners
2x Seagate 1.5TB Harddrives
Antec Nine Hundred case
Thermaltake 1200WA PSU


Okay, the previous configuration that worked was two Seagate 1TB harddrives, and it worked just fine in RAID 1, when we had it mirrored. He ordered 2 of these drives, and while waiting, put a WD 1TB in there, because he sold the 1TB Seagates for the order money...

Anyways, when we work with the two 1.5TB's for RAID, windows will come up, and ask us for the driver to install the RAID for the drives, which the Mobo CD has, and it works just fine... It goes to the windows installation, says its copying, and goes through the first four check-marks, and before it hits the last checkmark before install, it comes up with the error message:

" The Installation was cancelled. "

"Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install windows, restart the installation. "

and then it stops working, and we have to do the waiting game all over again, just to come to the same error.

Anyone have any idea? With all my experience, this one stumps me.
 
There are 2 different options that you could try:

1. Don't use RAID during installation. And install the RAID drivers and turn on RAID after Windows has been installed.

2. After the installation (without RAID), go to the Disk Management (control panel> administrative tools > computer management), and use the Dynamic Disk feature to create a RAID setup.
 
Thanks, I will try that tonight. Didn't even think of it, as I forgot Vista had that feature. :doh:
 
Okay, so I tried all night about doing what you had described about doing, aaand... Apparantly, it doesn't support it, or something. It can't load windows off of RAID until Windows has been installed under RAID, which was the original problem. I tried all the RAID's possible that were supported by the motherboard, and now I'm lost on what else to do.

Any ideas on getting two Seagate 1.5TB's to work in general? With that same setup. Any problems? Any incompatabilities? (truthfully, I don't know why he wants RAID, but eh, thats what I'm getting paid for. :) )

So, I leave this to the open minded, I'm flat out of ideas.
 
Kyonu said:
Any ideas on getting two Seagate 1.5TB's to work in general? With that same setup.
Click to expand...
You can set that in the BIOS, by changing the mode from RAID to SATA or General.

I'm afraid I can't help you more with this, because I don't have much experience with RAID features in Vista.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top