nice write up Thane, thanks! _____________________________________ Julian Zottl CTO, Radiant Network Technology, LLC Getting ahead in the tech sector isn't about kissing butt ... you gotta sniff the right packets
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Thane Sherrington (S)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The Hardware List <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:20:22 -0400 >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 > >
