Windows Installer does not detect RAID 0 Array.

[robodude666]

Hey,

I have two new SATA drives and I want to install windows XP on it. In the BIOS I enabled RAID mode and I have a RAID 0 array setup in the RAID controller. I put in the windows disc like always and I pressed F6 when it started. A few seconds later it asked me to put in my floppy, which I did. I selected the RAID controller my motherboard uses and pressed enter to continue. After windows finishes loading all of the things I selected to install a fresh copy of XP. Once I do that it takes me to a screen where it says windows does not detect HDDs. Anyone know what could be the problem?

Cheers,
-robodude666

[Zenphic]

Your hard drives are new, so you will have to assign them a drive letter via Disk Management. Quick way is to simply run "diskmgmt.msc" and there should be a unkown partition or something. Assign it a drive letter. You could also read this (LINK) for a more thorough tutorial. It's been awhile since I did this. Hope this is the problem and that it works out for you.

[robodude666]

Well, I want to install a fresh copy of windows on the array. I check disk management after I connected my old hdd to see if the drives are alive or not. They both show up as no partition. I managed to partition one but the second gave me errors. I tried to delete the other partition but it gave me errors also :(

I don't need to assign drive letters as I want the RAID 0 array to be C on the new windows installation.

Would formating the drives (NTFS) help windows detect it? Or does it not matter?

[polobunny]

If there's multiple choices at the F6 prompt, you might need to load them all (unless they're for other OSes)
For example, I remember that for the nForce 3 250GB RAID you needed to load 2 drivers from the floppy for it to work.
Other than that, in your RAID controller setup be sure you enabled BOOT, as in put your array as a bootable partition.

[robodude666]

I noticed there are two for each controller. One is labled RAID and other is like AHDI or ADHI. Do I need to load both? Or just RAID?

There actually is no RAID controller setup. I enable RAID mode for SATA Controller and the chip automatically setup a RAID 0 array between my two drives. There is no RAID setup window in BIOS. You press "The Any Key" on boot and it will take you to the RAID screen where can look at the current arrays and delete them. I cant modify them or anything.


EDIT:

It AHCI :o

Here are the choices in the txtsetup.oem file:


JMicron_RAID_363 = "JMicron JMB363 RAID Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003)"
JMicron_AHCI_363 = "JMicron JMB363 AHCI Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003)"
JMicron_AHCI_360 = "JMicron JMB360 AHCI Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003)"
JMicron_RAID_362 = "JMicron JMB362 RAID Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003)"
JMicron_AHCI_362 = "JMicron JMB362 AHCI Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003)"
JMicron_RAID_366 = "JMicron JMB366 RAID Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003)"
JMicron_AHCI_366 = "JMicron JMB366 AHCI Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003)"
JMicron_RAID_361 = "JMicron JMB361 RAID Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003)"
JMicron_AHCI_361 = "JMicron JMB361 AHCI Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003)"

EDIT2:

Woops :o Turns out I have two RAID controllers on my mobo. The SB600 southbridge and the JBM363. I had the HDDs connected to the SB600 controller, while the drivers are JBM363 ones >_<. I redid the connections and on boot it took me to a RAID setup screen where I made my array. I got into windows installation and everything went smooth and fine until it started to copy over files. It gave me like 50 or so files cant be copied errors and I said "F it" and shut down to try a different CD. When I started up my computer I keep getting a "NTLDR is Missing. Press ALT+CTRL+DEL to restart" error. What does this error mean?


EDIT3:

I managed to boot to my old HDD with the array still on. This is why I want to do RAID 0:



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