How do I RAID

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Hello All :womanhappy:                    I have a dimension 8400 and i just bought a HD that i wish to run as RAID, I figure I will need drivers but I dont know where to get them or just exactly how to do this. Plz can someone help me through this, my son want's this for gaming and also i would just like to do this to see how it runs.   Thank you so much !!!

shesagordie · Answer

Hoosier Girl

You can obtain the driver here,

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R82876&SystemID=DIM_PNT_P4_8400&category=41&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=7548&devlib=41&fileid=108901

How Create the RAID Driver Disk for a Dell Dimension Computer,

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&dn=1090643

You can find the guide to creating RAID, on pages 12 to 29, of your D-8400 Owner's Manual.

Note, you need an internal floopy drive for the RAID driver, a USB drive will not work.

Bev.

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mombodog · Answer

Download or read this PDF manual for your 8400 and go to the 'Setting up and Using yourComputer' section and in that section there are several 'configuring for Raid' chapters   http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim8400/en/om/U70350LRs.pdf

Hoosier Girl · Answer

I guess i'm not doin something right, the retail ver of winXP MCE 2005 wont install after i enable Raid 0 but the original ver (winXP home recovery disc) that came with the 8400 installs just fine, i really wanna install the retail ver tho (XP Pro MCE). anyone know what i'm doing wrong ?   thank you all so much !!!   mimi

mombodog · Answer

The first link provided by Bev. will make the floppy diskette you need.

At the very beginning of MCE setup, do an F6 to load the drivers from diskette. You will be given a choice later in setup to choose which driver to load, choose "iastor" driver for your raid to work.

You will need a Floppy drive installed on the 8400 to install the drivers. If you do not have a floppy drive installed in the 8400, you can install one temporarily to do the job, No, a usb floppy will not work. Must be connected to the floppy controller on the motherboard, to be recognized as A drive by setup.

Send me a private message with your email address and I can send a copy of the files to you, If necessary. You can use these for the slipstream method if you cannot use the floppy method for any reason.

You can slipstream the drivers into MCE, with a program like this

http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html

Message Edited by mombodog on 01-13-200708:23 AM

Hoosier Girl · Answer

Thank you all for the good help that's given here, thank's ! i was wondering if XP Pro and not XP home is the only version that can run under Raid 0 configuration .   Hoosier girl Message Edited by Hoosier Girl on 01-23-200712:41 AM

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