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austinpctech

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January 8th, 2007 22:00

Cannot configure RAID

I am trying to setup RAID 1 on an XPS desktop that did not come pre-configured with RAID.  I installed a new 250gb SATA drive and then followed DELL's directions for configuring RAID.  The instructions inidicate that I should enable RAID on both drives in the system BIOS and then use the NVIDIA MediaShield software program in Windows to configure RAID.  It specifically says to use the software version versus the ROM version at bootup since the operating system is already installed.  The problem I am having is that when I enable RAID on either just the primary drive or both drives, I get a boot device not found error and cannot start the computer.  This computer is still under warranty however I am told by DELL support that since this computer did not come pre-configured, they cannot offer any help.
 
Does anyone know how to resolve this issue of no disk found after enabling RAID on the hard drives without wiping the drive clean and re-installing Windows?
 
Thanks!

Message Edited by austinpctech on 01-09-200708:22 AM

Timdrouilard

628 Posts

January 8th, 2007 23:00

The problem is that Windows was not installed with the RAID drivers added at installation time.
 
I've never had any luck changing from Non-RAID to a RAID 1 configuration without having to do a complete re-install of Windows.

austinpctech

16 Posts

January 9th, 2007 12:00

I'm not looking to be encouraged to give up.  This is a problem I have to solve.  Certainly there is answer and I'm hoping someone else has found it and is willing to share it.
 
Thanks for any help you may provide.

gdwrnch3

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January 9th, 2007 17:00

I can't tell you how to do it with media shield. I don't believe you can create a raid array from a single boot drive unless the bios was configured for raid, and the sata raid drivers were installed with the original windows installation. I think you will have to create the array in raid bios, then add your raid drivers with during installation, unless you have the original Dell windows install disk which should have raid drivers slipstreamed onto the disk.

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