Gus
December 5th 03, 12:36 PM
As far as i know, (even as great as winXP is) it wasn't
designed to boot off SATA drives. Once installed and
updated, (on a normal IDE HDD) it should use your Raided
drives over SATA just fine, but good luck using only SATA
drives until at least the next gen of Win OS comes out.
>-----Original Message-----
>I am building my first "advanced" computer setup using 3
>hard drives. I am running a asus p4c800,1 gig ram, p4
>2.6, and TRYING to install windows xp pro. I can not get
>through the setup though, because It can not find my
>drives. The drives are 2 36 gig western digital raptors
>(sata), set up in a raid O array. how come my bios know
>they are there and windows can not see them-- What am I
>missing? The third drive is not hooked up yet because I
>dont want windows installing itself on this drive-- it
>will be on ide and used for storage. (thats my plan
>anyway.) I have already set up my bios for xp. any help
>would be greatly appreciated!! feel free to email me at
Thanks, Chad
>.
>
designed to boot off SATA drives. Once installed and
updated, (on a normal IDE HDD) it should use your Raided
drives over SATA just fine, but good luck using only SATA
drives until at least the next gen of Win OS comes out.
>-----Original Message-----
>I am building my first "advanced" computer setup using 3
>hard drives. I am running a asus p4c800,1 gig ram, p4
>2.6, and TRYING to install windows xp pro. I can not get
>through the setup though, because It can not find my
>drives. The drives are 2 36 gig western digital raptors
>(sata), set up in a raid O array. how come my bios know
>they are there and windows can not see them-- What am I
>missing? The third drive is not hooked up yet because I
>dont want windows installing itself on this drive-- it
>will be on ide and used for storage. (thats my plan
>anyway.) I have already set up my bios for xp. any help
>would be greatly appreciated!! feel free to email me at
Thanks, Chad
>.
>