At a total loss

[Wab]

OK I have re installed raid0 on asrock mobo - and fitted by old ide drives -

So what I have is 2 x WD 250 GB making up the raid 0

1 x 120 gb Seagate

1 x 80 gb Seagate on ide channels

Now if I boot PC up in that setting it will not see array (raid) when in windows - although I can see it in post screen during boot up procedure.

No matter how I set it up in bios when I have ide drives connected I can not see the array on bios.

If I disconnect the ide drives I see the array in bios and it boots up no problems.

I need to move files across from old drives to to new ones, and I was also thinking of leaving the 120gb hard rive in pc to backup to.

One other thing is when I boot PC with all drivers connected when windows starts up it reports that it can see a massive storage device but fails to install it.

This is driving me nutty!

 

[FarFarAway]

Have you set the IDE drives to either "cable select" or "secondary" drive on the jumpers and on the cable?

 

[Wab]

Have you set the IDE drives to either "cable select" or "secondary" drive on the jumpers and on the cable?

when I do that PC reports no boot up device and by that I mean in bios, Only the 80gb drive has a jumper which is set to slave - and yes thats the one that boots up windows - what gets me is why cant I seee the array in the bios

 

[FragTek]

OK I have re installed raid0 on asrock mobo - and fitted by old ide drives -

So what I have is 2 x WD 250 GB making up the raid 0

1 x 120 gb Seagate

1 x 80 gb Seagate on ide channels

Now if I boot PC up in that setting it will not see array (raid) when in windows - although I can see it in post screen during boot up procedure.

No matter how I set it up in bios when I have ide drives connected I can not see the array on bios.

If I disconnect the ide drives I see the array in bios and it boots up no problems.

I need to move files across from old drives to to new ones, and I was also thinking of leaving the 120gb hard rive in pc to backup to.

One other thing is when I boot PC with all drivers connected when windows starts up it reports that it can see a massive storage device but fails to install it.

This is driving me nutty!

Have the latest mobo BIOS flashed mate?

 

[Wab]

yeah I have v1.50, slight correction - when I set ide to secondary in bios PC will still boot from them but I lose my optical drives.

http://img85.imageshack.us/my.php?image=b3ww.jpg

 

[Tec]

Well i dont have much experience with raid but it could be the device ids in array setup conflicting once you add new drives to your system maybe.

e.g if your old setup was

80GB HD as device id 0 disk id 0 partition 0 Main OS

120gb HD as device id 0 disk id 1 partition 0

Depends in which order you attached your cables or installed disks it might changed the disk ids so when windows is trying to boot from disk id 0 partition 0 it might be its your Raid drives therefore cant boot into windows.

Can you please post how was your setup before raid and after raid.

Eg Disk 1 (80gb) connected as master on primary 1

Disk 2 (120gb) connected as master on secondary 1 etc etc .

Below is my boot.ini file which will give you more info about what i am trying to say above.

This is a dual boot windows xp and i have 3 physical HDS

[boot loader]

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /Execute /fastdetect

So if i move my hds around or change controllers etc winxp will not boot up.

So few suggestions is start from scratch if you can reinstall everything.

If thats not an option there are free programs where you can create an image of your windows and then reinstall it or reload it onto a new disk.

or we can find which device id , disk id your 80gb ends up with and change the boot.ini file to corresponding ids so windows can boot.

 

[FragTek]

yeah I have v1.50, slight correction - when I set ide to secondary in bios PC will still boot from them but I lose my optical drives.

http://img85.imageshack.us/my.php?image=b3ww.jpg

Do you have your optical drives master/slave jumpers set correctly?

 

[Joe]

OK I have re installed raid0 on asrock mobo - and fitted by old ide drives -

So what I have is 2 x WD 250 GB making up the raid 0

1 x 120 gb Seagate

1 x 80 gb Seagate on ide channels

Now if I boot PC up in that setting it will not see array (raid) when in windows - although I can see it in post screen during boot up procedure.

No matter how I set it up in bios when I have ide drives connected I can not see the array on bios.

If I disconnect the ide drives I see the array in bios and it boots up no problems.

I need to move files across from old drives to to new ones, and I was also thinking of leaving the 120gb hard rive in pc to backup to.

One other thing is when I boot PC with all drivers connected when windows starts up it reports that it can see a massive storage device but fails to install it.

This is driving me nutty!

ok ... the actual cables could be damaged ... possibly in a non-apparent way try a diff IDE cable [this sometimes mimmicks faulty jumper settins @ other times they are just not detected]