Is My Raid Array Working on Vista 64

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I have a Vista 64 system which I just installed (I think) on an Raid 0 array.

Asus Striker II NSE Motherboard
8 Gigs Ram
2 1 Terrabyte WD internal SATA drives configured into a raid arrray

Here is the questions. I chose a striped array when setting up the hard drives. In bios and in the raid utility it seems to suggest that everything is running fine. Says I have one drive, capacity 1863.54 GB.

1. Shouldn't it be only 1 Terabyte as I have the drives configured as Raid 0. Is this an indication that somethign is wrong?

So I installed windows vista 64. Installation seems to have gone fine, but since I could never find the correct drivers (via anywhere on the web!!!!) for Vista 64 on the nVidia chipset, I didn't install any additional raid drivers.

now my remaining questions are

2. Is the raid array functional or not? What happened?
3. If not, do I rebuild the array and start over?

Third question. When I restart my computer, widnows will not boot unless the windows CD is in the cd-rom drive - even though it is ultimately booting off of the raid drives.

Please help.

Kevin

[wonkanoby]

1. Shouldn't it be only 1 Terabyte as I have the drives configured as Raid 0. Is this an indication that somethign is wrong?


that would be the case if you raid it as raid 1 a mirror

raid 0 basically gives you twice the size of a single drive as you are seeing

as to not booting without cdrom

1 make sure raid array is in bios boot order

if it is then try

Boot from the XP CD, and choose the option To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R.

Log into your Windows installation, then type fixboot.

After that, type exit.