Re: Raid 0 setup on a P5WD2-E PREMIUM
- From: treefrog <treefrog07@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:46:49 -0400
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:51:04 GMT, "peter" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
i am not an UberTech but I understand that this has worked.
You install the SATA RAID drivers into your present installation
You Use Acronis True Image and create an emergency recovery disk........then
Image your present installation to another HD or DVD
You reboot and do the RAID setup........changes in the BIOS...RAID setup
screen..(read the manual)..once that is done
You reboot again and start with the Acronis Emergency disk.............start
in basic mode which should see your RAID array
Restore that Image to the Raid Array
Reboot and all should be working............
if it is not try.repair installation
peter
I moved WinXPsp2 and all my data from the IDE C drive to SATA RAID 1
on my P5WD2 board in April. I was really apprehensive, too. I did it
a little differently than peter - I loaded Acronis True Image 10.0 and
Intel Matrix Storage Manager to my IDE C driver, then shut down the
machine, and unplugged it. I installed the two SATA drives. Powered
up, used the BIOS to configure the RAID, booted from the IDE C drive,
used PartitionMagic8 to set the new RAID sector sizes, then used
Acronis to clone the IDE C drive onto the SATA RAID drives. Everything
worked, I lost nothing. My thought was that if I screwed something up,
I still had original IDE bootable C drive (which I kept as backup for
about two weeks - it's now the data (D) drive for temporary stuff).
Use google Write down the steps you need to accomplish, put them in
order, check them again. Read your google results again. Read your
mobo manual's sections on RAID, including the BIOS settings - to set
up the RAID (it's CTRL+I - it took me a long time to figure out the
"I" part, the screen only appears a few seconds and the "I" looked
like a "1" to me). Good Luck!
Bob
"timO'" <timothy.w.oleary@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sep 28, 6:39 pm, "DaveW" <noth...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
You realize of course that if you now set up a RAID 0 array you will have
to
reformat both harddrives and do a fresh install of the OS and all your
programs and data. Are you SURE you want to get into that?
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I'm already running the system with two identical WD 250G Sata HDDs.
But I'm only using the C drive because the procedure for installing XP
pro and configuring the SATA for Raid 0 was confusing and I chickened
out.
By now I have lots of stuff on my desktop and C drive.
I have an external USB hard drive connected. which I use for downloads
and data and TB mail folder, etc.
I want to set up the C & D as a Raid 0 and then use the external USB
drive as the backup.
That was the original plan
I have a floppy I installed because I understood that the Sata drivers
needed to be installed that way.
I have 2 DVD/CD drives
Is there a resource somewhere or altruistic individual who can take me
through the process step by step?
I figured that, but wanted to assess the difficulty of the whole task
and get feedback form this group to help me reach a decision.
thewre was a time when I would keep the same configuration until
something crashed.With older Windows, that was rather often. With XP
pro, it's ususally a hardware failure that forces me to clean house.
Now that I am using external hdd's for data, and keep the the
'critical' stuff on portable media, I want to be more proactive and
less anal retentive about how I manage my computing environment.
I built this system with the idea of maximising performance and then
backed out because I was under pressure to get my system up and
running again.
Also if I don't repeat these tasks occassionally, I forget how.
Configuring my Raid and installing windows is two tasks I am
particularly unfamiliar with
I'm thinking there is way for me to backup my set up and be able to
reload it onto the reformatted drives, and that's the exciting part of
this learning adventure.
thanks for the warning.
There are lots of ASUS ubertechs who have these processes down cold,
and I'm hoping to get one of them to offer tips
.
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