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by marie

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I am aware of the SATA Raid 1 setup needing the drivers installed using F6 during an XP install via the CD and FDD.

This is not a new install as I have been running these two 160G's and decided to replace them with 750G Seagates also. Ok, the 750 wasn't seen so I decided to flash the bios using the latest Uber one. Still didn't see it nor did it boot up with my exsisting 160's. Now I'm dead in the water using the wife's laptop. Flash went well and shows in the post, and I have no problem entering the bios and I can also see the Raid 1 configuration and enter if I want.

The darned thing just won't boot!

Ok, so I thought I would "Repair" XP with the installation disk...comes to installing, it tries to reboot, doesn't see the files so just starts the installation disk again.

Ok, try the "Windows recovery console" and it says "Setup did not find any hard disk...".

Suggestions??
Thanks Dave

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by Former member

Press either "F10 or F11" key on your keyboard, so that you can get into the raid section of the bios. In here you can do a raid 1 and then save and exit, then load on your Windows disk.

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.

by marie

This is an Award bios and uses "Ctrl + S" or "F4" and yes the RAID 1 exists and drives 0 and 1 are shown with size, and no conflicts.

by scott_heath

Did you rebuild the RAID config after you replcaed the drives?

by marie

I haven't replaced the drives yet, they are still physically and SATA connected as RAID1 with no conflicts showing. I want to install the new 750's, but right now need to get it back up with the original RAID1 160G drives.

by marie

Sort of defeats the reason for a RAID1 setup doesn't it? I'm a photographer and need the insurance.

Besides I tried that just to see if I could get anything going...no show, on either drive. I've also tried a "Raid Rebuild". ...and also swapped the SATA cables in case I had messed them up, again no joy.
Thanks,
Dave

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