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Gregory
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 1:28 am Post subject:
Installing XP MCE on RAID drive |
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I have just installed 2 new 250GB drives (RAID) in a new Sony PC that came
with XP home installed - performed system recovery so XP home installed on
the new drives.
I am trying to install XP Media Center Edition on the computer in a
different partition (i.e. muti boot).
The computer has an Intel 945 chipset and I have downloaded the RAID
controller from Intel and created a floppy.
I have pressed F6 to select install RAID controller for ICH5R
When get to the next step and select install Windows XP, there is only 1
drive showing with a 468 MB repeat megabyte partition. I don't understand why
it can only see 468 MB partition when 2 x 250GB drives exist on the system.
When I boot into XP Home, both drives are working correctly.
Does anyone know what to do to get this to work? |
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Gregory
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 1:28 am Post subject:
Re: Installing XP MCE on RAID drive |
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Thanks for the reply. However, I think I made it perfectly clear that I would
like to know how to install XP MCE on a RAID drive, I did not ask what RAID
is. I already know exactly what RAID is.
Gregory
"Michael J. Mahon" wrote:
| Quote: | Gregory wrote:
I have just installed 2 new 250GB drives (RAID) in a new Sony PC that came
with XP home installed - performed system recovery so XP home installed on
the new drives.
I am trying to install XP Media Center Edition on the computer in a
different partition (i.e. muti boot).
The computer has an Intel 945 chipset and I have downloaded the RAID
controller from Intel and created a floppy.
I have pressed F6 to select install RAID controller for ICH5R
When get to the next step and select install Windows XP, there is only 1
drive showing with a 468 MB repeat megabyte partition. I don't understand why
it can only see 468 MB partition when 2 x 250GB drives exist on the system.
When I boot into XP Home, both drives are working correctly.
Does anyone know what to do to get this to work?
There are several levels of RAID organization. The most common
levels are 0 and 1:
Level 0 -- Striped Disk Array without Fault Tolerance: Provides data
striping (spreading out blocks of each file across multiple disk drives)
but no redundancy. This improves performance but does not deliver fault
tolerance. If one drive fails then all data in the array is lost.
Level 1 -- Mirroring and Duplexing: Provides disk mirroring. Level 1
provides twice the read transaction rate of single disks and the same
write transaction rate as single disks.
Note that level 0 "marries" two disk drives together without
providing any redundancy. If either drive fails, all information
is lost (practically speaking).
Level 1 provides mirroring, so two 250GB drives would provide
approximately 250GB of storage space, minus table overhead.
It sounds like you have configured a RAID level 1 system.
The advantage of this is that either drive can fail and your
system and its files will remain intact.
-michael
Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's!
Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it is seriously underused."
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Abaddon
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 1:28 am Post subject:
Re: Installing XP MCE on RAID drive |
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Gregory wrote:
| Quote: | Thanks for the reply. However, I think I made it perfectly clear that I would
like to know how to install XP MCE on a RAID drive, I did not ask what RAID
is. I already know exactly what RAID is.
Gregory
"Michael J. Mahon" wrote:
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It's because you've created a single striped array. This gives you a
single drive of the size you mention, UNLESS you created partitions when
you first installed XP Home. As you used restore disks, I would guess
that wasn't possible, and the system just used all available space.
There is nothing stopping you installing MCE on a RAID, but you must
assign partitions FIRST, so you can choose which partition to install on to. |
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Michael J. Mahon
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 1:28 am Post subject:
Re: Installing XP MCE on RAID drive |
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Gregory wrote:
| Quote: | I have just installed 2 new 250GB drives (RAID) in a new Sony PC that came
with XP home installed - performed system recovery so XP home installed on
the new drives.
I am trying to install XP Media Center Edition on the computer in a
different partition (i.e. muti boot).
The computer has an Intel 945 chipset and I have downloaded the RAID
controller from Intel and created a floppy.
I have pressed F6 to select install RAID controller for ICH5R
When get to the next step and select install Windows XP, there is only 1
drive showing with a 468 MB repeat megabyte partition. I don't understand why
it can only see 468 MB partition when 2 x 250GB drives exist on the system.
When I boot into XP Home, both drives are working correctly.
Does anyone know what to do to get this to work?
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There are several levels of RAID organization. The most common
levels are 0 and 1:
Level 0 -- Striped Disk Array without Fault Tolerance: Provides data
striping (spreading out blocks of each file across multiple disk drives)
but no redundancy. This improves performance but does not deliver fault
tolerance. If one drive fails then all data in the array is lost.
Level 1 -- Mirroring and Duplexing: Provides disk mirroring. Level 1
provides twice the read transaction rate of single disks and the same
write transaction rate as single disks.
Note that level 0 "marries" two disk drives together without
providing any redundancy. If either drive fails, all information
is lost (practically speaking).
Level 1 provides mirroring, so two 250GB drives would provide
approximately 250GB of storage space, minus table overhead.
It sounds like you have configured a RAID level 1 system.
The advantage of this is that either drive can fail and your
system and its files will remain intact.
-michael
Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's!
Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it is seriously underused." |
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geo
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:28 am Post subject:
Re: Installing XP MCE on RAID drive |
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It seems that everyone is missing his extra empasis on MB. He has a few
hundred MB, not GB. I don't know the answer but maybe someone smarter does
now that this is pointed out again. |
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Gregory
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject:
Re: Installing XP MCE on RAID drive |
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Thanks for the reply. Yes, I don't know why nobody else saw that emphasis...
I have since solved the problem anyway. The 468MB partition was a Compact
Flash card that I hadn't removed. The RAID drivers weren't loading properly
when pressing F6. However, I left the floppy with the RAID drivers in the
drive and Windows setup just read them with no intervention.
"geo" wrote:
| Quote: | It seems that everyone is missing his extra empasis on MB. He has a few
hundred MB, not GB. I don't know the answer but maybe someone smarter does
now that this is pointed out again. |
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