1: First of all, everything was working fine on Friday morning before this
fiasco!
2: Drives
2 WD 36 GB Raptors in RAID0 as C, D, E, F (System, Downloads,
Programs, and Files) on nVidia SATA II controller
1 WD 750 GB SATA II as I (video files) on nVidia SATA II controller
5 Seagate 320 GB SATA II for general storage and backups, working
discs (I record a lot of shows from TV and convert them to xvid avi files),
on nVidia SATA II controller, Sil3132 SATA II pcie-X1 controller, & JMicron
SATA II pcie-X1 controller.
2 DVD/RW burners on separate IDE channels
3: Originally used F6 to load drivers for nVidia & Sil3114 (which would not
allow me to create a boot drive system on the RAID0 array, so it is
installed on the nVidia controler and no drives are currently using the
Sil3114 SATA I controller)
4: When I did the re-install, I loaded drivers with F6 for the nVidia,
Sil3114 and Sil3132 controllers. The JMicron controller thru an error for
its floppy disk and had to be installed from within Windows.
Things that used to work, such as True Image 11 to re-install an image, no
longer work. Strange problems with installation not booting or Windows
DEMANDING activation after only an hour or so. It seems that there are just
too many seemingly unrelated problems cropping up. Of particular distress is
the failure of True Image to be able to re-install a saved image. I have
depended on that utility to get me out of many a jam. Usually can get the
system up in running within a half hour of a software problem with the boot
drive.
Jim Maki
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Weeden
> What are all the drives in your system for? Can you describe
> your storage
> layout?
>
> One thing I'm not sure if you tried but hitting F6 while the
> WinXP setup is
> loading will allow you do load storage drivers. That has
> helped me in the
> past for things that XP didn't have a native driver for.
>
> -----
> Brian Weeden
> Technical Consultant
> Secure World Foundation
