OK, I'm running WIN2K PRO and I've got two existing SATA 300 HDDs running in striped RAID. They've been running fine for a couple of years. I just tried adding a third SATA 300 HDD, to use as a dual BOOT, and it isn't recognised. What did I forget to do ?
SATA connector and power connector attached. Is it not recognized in the BIOS?
Does the drive spin up?
Try a different SATA port and cable too, just in case.OK, SATA 2 RAID was disabled in the BIOS so I enabled that and was asked for nvata.sys on SRCDATA. I found nvata.sys in WINTT sys.32 drivers and installed it, then asked for idecoi.dll, found it, installed it, rebooted. 'New hardware found' message. nVidia RAID device. New hardware installed / completed. Rebooted. No new drive to be seen in 'My Computer' nor Disk Management. I must have screwed up somewhere. Is the drive seen in the BIOS?You mean in the bootup ? No, just the 'healthy nVidia stripe'. Consult your MBoard manual for running a drive outside a RAID array...Nothing in my motherboard manual even approaches such a description.
I've tested the HDD and cabling on another machine with no problems.OK, I've abandoned that idea and gone back to installing XP on the existing unallocated space on the RAID array. That has gone well except that I now don't get a choice of OS when I boot up. The machine goes into the XP mode every time. How do I configure the boot so I get a dual-boot choice ?No matter, installing XP into the Win2K RAID stripe has destroyed the previous PARTITIONS. No WONDER there was no dual-boot. Another of Gate's gifts to the unwary.
Where's my Ubuntu disk ? It's a shame you went ahead with this without further advice and destroyed your partitions...
Everything i researched since i first saw this Topic led me to believe that it needs to be done when RAID is setup initially.

Others may chime in on this that know more about RAID than myself but sorry about your loss anyways.Ah well, thanks for the condolences. My problem now is how to wipe the RAID array disks so that I can split them for use on other PCs. I'm done with striped RAID, the speed gain doesn't warrant the insecurities.

I'm going to put one , larger, HDD in and rebuild my DAW with XP, but I do need to wipe the two existing Win2K HDDs. Any ideas ?