Yes, Thane has it right. Just as with 2000, addding another controller, (ie, I did it with SCSI) I had to boot with the old and the new in controllers in, then you can shutdown and just use the new controller.... :)
-- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. ----- Original Message ---- From: Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: The Hardware List <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2006 9:48:21 AM Subject: Re: [H] Adding an IDE Raid Ctrlr to XP At 01:37 PM 01/11/2006, Ben Ruset wrote: >Hi All, > >I have to upgrade two XP SP2 pc's here at work to hardware IDE raid >controllers. I am sure this will make Windows unhappy when it goes >to boot. Does anybody know a good way of adding this hardware and >keeping Windows happy, preferably without requiring a reload of the >OS (upgrade install or otherwise.) I did this with an Adaptec IDE RAID controller sometime back with no problem. I put the controller in while leaving the system running on it's current IDE controller and installed the drivers for the new controller. Then I moved the drive over to the new controller, added the second drive and did the mirroring in the controller BIOS. It worked fine after that. T
