Attach the new drive to SATA 1, power on, go into the RAID setup and make sure it is detected. If it is, you set up RAID1, reboot, and the drives will mirror automatically.
I do not think it automatic at least it does not work that way on a XPS gen 2.
The steps are as follows:
This assumes you have a 8400,XPS gen2,3,4 and have the orginal BIOS setting and RAID driver allready installed. (Factory settings)
Install the new SATA drive that matches the orginal drive you wish to setup RAID 1. Rember what SATA port you installed in on. Also note what port the SATA drive is on that you wish to Mirror.
restart system.
Go into control panel and double click Intel Application Accelerator
From here there should be an option to migrate an exsisting SATA drive to RAID 1 or 0.
Select the drive you wish to migrate to RAID 1.
Give the RAID volume a name
Select the drive you wish to add to the RAID Array. This will be the new one you installed.
Migration will start.
When complete you be asked to reboot.
May require one more re-boot after re-starting.
Your on RAID 1. Check status in Application Accelerator. Works fairly good, if you have a disk failure you can replace the drive, go back into the Application Accelerator and re-build the Array to the new drive, and your ready to go again. You get a warning when you have a disk failure.
It has been almost a year since I run the process on my XPS gen2 but think covered most of the steps. I think your owner guide may have some information on it.
I've tried following the steps mentioned above, however I think the RAID driver was not installed correctly. Now my system seems to be completely locked up. i.e. I'm unable to boot into windows I receive the following message - Disk Error press any key to reboot.
What I've done so far -
1) Installed second hard disk on SATA 1 - disk is seen by the bios.
2) Set up RAID volume
Now unable to reboot.
Has anyone got any suggestions as I'm dead in the water and very concerned I've lost all my data. :smileysad:
Can I delete the RAID volume and go back to a single disk?
I think you should of followd the step I listed. Not sure the other method will migrate you may have to re-load. Try breaking the array and see what happens.
The only way I know to migrate is to use the step I out lined in my post.
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I do not think it automatic at least it does not work that way on a XPS gen 2.
The steps are as follows:
This assumes you have a 8400,XPS gen2,3,4 and have the orginal BIOS setting and RAID driver allready installed. (Factory settings)
Your on RAID 1. Check status in Application Accelerator. Works fairly good, if you have a disk failure you can replace the drive, go back into the Application Accelerator and re-build the Array to the new drive, and your ready to go again. You get a warning when you have a disk failure.
It has been almost a year since I run the process on my XPS gen2 but think covered most of the steps. I think your owner guide may have some information on it.
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TomXPS
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December 12th, 2004 01:00
I think you should of followd the step I listed. Not sure the other method will migrate you may have to re-load. Try breaking the array and see what happens.
The only way I know to migrate is to use the step I out lined in my post.
Good luck.