RE: [H] NVidia SATA RAID questions

[Hayes Elkins]

You're lucky you didn't kill the partition. In general, even with RAID 1, 
the array needs to be reformatted once built. You can go with software RAID 
in windows or maybe NVIDIA has an online (runs while in windows) RAID 
utility tool that you can try creating the mirror in.

From: "Thane Sherrington (S)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] NVidia SATA RAID questions
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:41:54 -0400

This is probably a stupid question.  I have a machine with an NForce4 
motherboard and one SATA drive.  I put in a second SATA drive, enabled 
RAID, and setup a mirrored RAID configuration.  It asked me if I wanted to 
clear the drives, and I said no, assuming that it would build the array 
once I rebooted.  But when I reboot, Windows starts to load and then 
reboots (won't boot to safe mode either.)  Disabling RAID allows me to boot 
with both drives with no problems.  I tried telling the chipset to rebuild 
the array, but that made no difference.  How do I get RAID after I've 
installed Windows?

T