cypher67 0 Posted January 21, 2005 I want to run 4 80gig WD sata's on a striped raid. In disk manager i have managed to create this raid but only by using windows on a IDE hdd (5 hdds all up). Problem is once i have created this raid i can't install windows on it so i can use this raid and remove the slow IDE. My motherboard supports a hardware raid for 2 satas on one chipset and 2 stand alone satas. I wanna know if its possible to some how make a 4 sata raid with windows on it. My motherboard is a gigabyte GA-8KNXP. all other components on my computer are more then enough. Basically whats disk manager good for if u can't join hdds if 1 has an OS on it?? Share this post Link to post
peterh 1 Posted January 21, 2005 You must have hardware RAID to boot from it, a software raid is no good as the software to manage the raid has to be loaded to boot from it and the software cannot be loaded until its booted - Catch 22. Software raid can be setup when they are Dynamic disks (not Basic) and this is setup is Disk Management. http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=830&page=5 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308424 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314343 Share this post Link to post
