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P4C800 deluxe Promise RAID problems with XP
PC spec:
P4 2.8
1.024MB DDR RAM
Asus P4C800 deluxe mobo
2 x Maxtor 120GB Sata HDD
Bios v 1.008
Latest Fastrack drivers 1.0.30
Problem:
I am trying to install XP onto the Maxtor drives. I have created a array and made a 7GB active partition. When I install XP from cd the installation fails at the point when XP is preparing the install( 34 minutes left just before the window prompting for Country lang and keyboard) I have the latest 378ATA drivers for the promise card which I add at the begining of the XP install(F6)
After saying yes to accepting the WinXP fasttrack drivers that are not XP logo comp. the PC blue screens saying Kernel_data_inpage_error. Sometimges before that happens a message pops up saying cannot load mouse device drivers (primary ide,secondary ide .etc).
I have tried all the drivers there are. Still no luck. CAn some one please tell me want I am doing wrong. These are the steps I am doing to install XP on RAID drive
1) Attach SATA HDDs to the RAID 1 and RAID 2 ports on the motherboard.No jumper setting.
2) Attach 4pin power cable to HDDs
3) Start PC (both disk startup) & hit ctrl-f and create raid 0 with the 2 HDDs
4) Boot up PC with dos disk and create a 7GB partition on the RAID drive.Leaving the rest of the drive to be confirgured in windows XP.
5) Reboot, insert XP cd , change bios to boot of cd.
6) Xp boot,Press F6 and choose Fasttrack drive for XP of a:
7) Format 7GB part to FAT32
8) XP copies files and reboots
9) XP prepares installation and loads device drives.Asks if I want to use WinXP fasttrack driver which is not XP compilant. I say yes
10) Then XP should start the window with Country type and language type but bluescreens with Kernel_input_error.
Is that not the correct why of doing it ? I have noticed that when I take those same drives and place them on SATA1 & SATA2 port on the motherboard and boot up in to fdisk. Only one of the disk has a 7GB part and the other is blank.I can even go into dos and see all the window file on that disk. I thought with RAID 0 I shouldnt be able to see file and both drives would be affected. Is the RAID not set correctly?
I know the drives work cos I have them working on SATA1 & SATA2 as separate drives.
Could the Onboard RAID control be faulty?
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