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Failure of Raid 0 install on Dimension XPS Gen II
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I have a Dimension XPS Gen II which I had bought w/ only 1 250GB hard drive originally. I had a hard drive failure last week, still covered under extended warranty. I purchased another hard drive, Western Digital WD2500JD 250GB to add to the replacement drive. The tech came out and installed a replacement hard drive which was a Maxtor 7Y250M0 250GB, I installed the 2nd new hard drive. The tech was not allowed to do the raid config which is fine. He installed XP Pro OS on the maxtor disc. It saw both discs in windows xp OS setup. We did the F6 and installed the RAID drivers from Floppy, the SATA is set to on in BIOS. Afer the OS was installed, I installed the Intel Accelerator utility from the Dell Resource Cd. I launched the utility and chose to do a Migrate to Raid 0 with the Maxtor as my source disk w/ the OS installed and w/ the WD2500JD as the other disk that would be "claimed" in the Raid volume. After 2 hours of migrating, it said the migration was succesful, rebooted and the raid volume failed. It sees them in a raid array, but treats the WD2500JD disk on port 1 as "missing", and sees the maxtor disc on Port 0 as "Normal".
A few questions. I have tried this process 3 times now. The first time I created the partitions in setup the exact same size for the 1st and 2nd drive but I do not think XP setup formatted the 2nd drive, so I thought that was the problem. The 2nd time I let xp setup determine the size of the partitions, they were not exactly the same, and I formatted the hard drive on the WD2500JD in windows after the OS had been installed on the maxtor 7Y250m0. I then tried to migrate to Raid 0 again and afte 2 hours and a reboot it had failed. The 3rd time I installed the chipset driver on the resource cd(had forgotten to do this the 1st two times), let xp setup choose the partition sizes, and after succesful OS install, installed application accelerator and after migration to raid 0 failed again.
What am I missing? Do the Hard disks have to be the same brand? I know they have to be same capacity, and I thought same brand, The original hard drive that failed was a WD2500JD and I thought that is what it would be replaced with. . . The Raid drivers are from my dell resource Cd so they are atleast 14 months old? Each time that I retry this I have to break the raid volume when it won't successfully boot (Ctrl-I) and then reinstall the OS and the intel raid accelerator, at which time I have to use it to release the 2nd drive (WD2500JD) at Port 1, then reinstall the OS so that I can re-partition both drives. Until I do that is does not see the second drive after an unsuccessful raid attempt at migration. I am starting to go a little batty, I have lost count how many times I have re-installed the OS, any help would be greatly appreciated. I have read some of the posts here, and in my bios SATA is set to on, I do the F6 thing to install the raid drivers, and I am starting to run out of ideas. . .
Thanks,
Lca355
I have a Dimension XPS Gen II which I had bought w/ only 1 250GB hard drive originally. I had a hard drive failure last week, still covered under extended warranty. I purchased another hard drive, Western Digital WD2500JD 250GB to add to the replacement drive. The tech came out and installed a replacement hard drive which was a Maxtor 7Y250M0 250GB, I installed the 2nd new hard drive. The tech was not allowed to do the raid config which is fine. He installed XP Pro OS on the maxtor disc. It saw both discs in windows xp OS setup. We did the F6 and installed the RAID drivers from Floppy, the SATA is set to on in BIOS. Afer the OS was installed, I installed the Intel Accelerator utility from the Dell Resource Cd. I launched the utility and chose to do a Migrate to Raid 0 with the Maxtor as my source disk w/ the OS installed and w/ the WD2500JD as the other disk that would be "claimed" in the Raid volume. After 2 hours of migrating, it said the migration was succesful, rebooted and the raid volume failed. It sees them in a raid array, but treats the WD2500JD disk on port 1 as "missing", and sees the maxtor disc on Port 0 as "Normal".
A few questions. I have tried this process 3 times now. The first time I created the partitions in setup the exact same size for the 1st and 2nd drive but I do not think XP setup formatted the 2nd drive, so I thought that was the problem. The 2nd time I let xp setup determine the size of the partitions, they were not exactly the same, and I formatted the hard drive on the WD2500JD in windows after the OS had been installed on the maxtor 7Y250m0. I then tried to migrate to Raid 0 again and afte 2 hours and a reboot it had failed. The 3rd time I installed the chipset driver on the resource cd(had forgotten to do this the 1st two times), let xp setup choose the partition sizes, and after succesful OS install, installed application accelerator and after migration to raid 0 failed again.
What am I missing? Do the Hard disks have to be the same brand? I know they have to be same capacity, and I thought same brand, The original hard drive that failed was a WD2500JD and I thought that is what it would be replaced with. . . The Raid drivers are from my dell resource Cd so they are atleast 14 months old? Each time that I retry this I have to break the raid volume when it won't successfully boot (Ctrl-I) and then reinstall the OS and the intel raid accelerator, at which time I have to use it to release the 2nd drive (WD2500JD) at Port 1, then reinstall the OS so that I can re-partition both drives. Until I do that is does not see the second drive after an unsuccessful raid attempt at migration. I am starting to go a little batty, I have lost count how many times I have re-installed the OS, any help would be greatly appreciated. I have read some of the posts here, and in my bios SATA is set to on, I do the F6 thing to install the raid drivers, and I am starting to run out of ideas. . .
Thanks,
Lca355
TomXPS
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April 28th, 2005 22:00
Wondering if the WD is just a bit smaller than the Maxtor. Anyway if you want to try it again, I would move the WD to port 0, and Maxtor to Port 1 and load the OS on the WD. Then try migrating to RAID 0, using the Maxtor drive as the drive to add to the array.
Assuming your sucessfull you should have 250 GB of free space on the RAID volulume to add another Partition, since the migration does not change the size of the partitions, just move them to the combined drive, thus freeing up the space of one drive.
lca355
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April 29th, 2005 14:00