At 04:57 PM 05/12/2005, Hayes Elkins wrote:
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.
Ok, after a lot of work, I've figured out how to upgrade a single drive
machine to a RAID 1 setup with an NForce4 board. In case others run into
this, I'll document it here:
This assumes you have a functional XP install with no viruses or spyware.
1)Add the second SATA drive.
2)Boot to Windows and let it be detected. Reboot.
3)At this point, you should be able to see both drives in Drive Management.
4)Reboot and go into the CMOS setup.
5)Enable RAID, but don't enable any RAID on any IDE channels.
6)Boot into Windows to allow the RAID drivers to be installed.
7)KEY POINT: The 6.70 SATA RAID drivers don't work. The 6.53 works
fine. Since you've probably already installed 6.70, just start the
installation of the 6.53s, then point Windows to the SATARAID folder in the
extracted 6.53 files to install the SATA RAID. Then cancel the 6.53 install.
8)Reboot and go into the CMOS setup.
9)Enable RAID on the SATA chains for the drive you wanted RAIDed.
10)Reboot and go into the RAID configuration.
11)Setup the drive you have Windows installed on in Striped
configuration. Do not clear the data.
12)Boot into Windows.
13)Run NVRAIDMan and upgrade the array to a RAID 1 array with both drives
(this takes 14 hours on a 250MB drive with almost no data on it.
14)Go into Drive Management, and you should see only one drive.
T
