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Intel RAID will not boot
This is a duplicate of a post I made in the BIOS section, but it'll probably get more traffic here:
My primary hard drive crashed. Dell is sending me a replacement drive, but I lost some data as a result. I'd like to configure two SATA drives in RAID 1 using the Intel RAID (Application Accelerator). I've tried this using both methods recommended in the system documentation to no avail:
1. I tried setting up the RAID before installing Windows using the Recovery CD. After configuring the drives, I found that I could not boot from the Recovery CD. I also found that I could not use an alternate bootable CD, nor could I use a boot disk in an attached USB floppy drive. As a result, I broke the RAID by using option #3 (Reset drives to non-RAID) in the RAID utility accessed via Ctrl+I at startup. At that point I was able to boot from the Recovery CD and install Windows successfully. This leads me to method #2.
2. After installing XP, I updated all firmware and BIOS, then tried building a RAID 1 drive from my system drive using the Intel Application Accelerator, version 4.5.0.6515. The "Create RAID volume from existing Hard Drive" creates the mirror successfully, but when I reboot, I run into the same problem as with method #1. I cannot boot to any device. Booting to floppy, CD or the system drive yields a black screen with no apparent activity. Reseting the drives to non-RAID allows me to boot into Windows again.
It seems to me that there's a problem with the BIOS post when the RAID option is used. What's the deal? Is this a common problem? I don't mind experimenting, but I'd like to get this right since it takes two hours to rebuild the RAID volume for each attempt I make.
Other Details:
- I'm building a RAID one with two Maxtor 200GB drives plugged into the onboard SATA controller, ports SATA-0 and SATA-1.
- I've tried using BIOS options RAID/AHCI, RAID/ATA, RAID On and Combination after configuring the drive. None will allow me to boot. Initially, I set the BIOS to "RAID On".
- I'm using BIOS A07 (D8400A07)
- I've installed the Intel Chipset drivers (R91894)
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Brad
My primary hard drive crashed. Dell is sending me a replacement drive, but I lost some data as a result. I'd like to configure two SATA drives in RAID 1 using the Intel RAID (Application Accelerator). I've tried this using both methods recommended in the system documentation to no avail:
1. I tried setting up the RAID before installing Windows using the Recovery CD. After configuring the drives, I found that I could not boot from the Recovery CD. I also found that I could not use an alternate bootable CD, nor could I use a boot disk in an attached USB floppy drive. As a result, I broke the RAID by using option #3 (Reset drives to non-RAID) in the RAID utility accessed via Ctrl+I at startup. At that point I was able to boot from the Recovery CD and install Windows successfully. This leads me to method #2.
2. After installing XP, I updated all firmware and BIOS, then tried building a RAID 1 drive from my system drive using the Intel Application Accelerator, version 4.5.0.6515. The "Create RAID volume from existing Hard Drive" creates the mirror successfully, but when I reboot, I run into the same problem as with method #1. I cannot boot to any device. Booting to floppy, CD or the system drive yields a black screen with no apparent activity. Reseting the drives to non-RAID allows me to boot into Windows again.
It seems to me that there's a problem with the BIOS post when the RAID option is used. What's the deal? Is this a common problem? I don't mind experimenting, but I'd like to get this right since it takes two hours to rebuild the RAID volume for each attempt I make.
Other Details:
- I'm building a RAID one with two Maxtor 200GB drives plugged into the onboard SATA controller, ports SATA-0 and SATA-1.
- I've tried using BIOS options RAID/AHCI, RAID/ATA, RAID On and Combination after configuring the drive. None will allow me to boot. Initially, I set the BIOS to "RAID On".
- I'm using BIOS A07 (D8400A07)
- I've installed the Intel Chipset drivers (R91894)
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Brad
