installing RAID after installing Windows?

dubrichie · 22nd June 2007

alrighty,

i just put my new DAW pc together using an Intel S975XBX2 mobo and missed the opportunity to press F6 and install the RAID driver at the start of Windows installation.

so, can i do this now without having to install windows and all from scratch AGAIN?

please tell me i can... PLEASE!

oh, and how would be great too!

thanks,

mwd · 23rd June 2007

If you could install RAID driver afterwards there would of course be no need of the F6 during install.

Too late to install as a "boot to RAID".

Not too late to RAID other drive arrays.

dubrichie · 25th June 2007

sorry for the late reply.

i only want to set up 2 hard drives in a RAID 1 array as my main audio/recording drive, nothing to do with my system drive.

can i do this without having to re-install windows and everything?

thanks,

dubrichie · 26th June 2007

bump!

can anyone help with this?

need to get my new audio drives in and set up as RAID 1 asap.

thanks,

KingDaddyO · 26th June 2007

What type of drives are they?

For ex, using 2 SATA drives, first make sure that the SATA drivers for your motherboard are installed. If not, then download the latest ones and install them per the vendor instructions. Then reboot and enter your CMOS configuration during the POST display, to verify that SATA support is enabled. Restart again and carefully watch for the RAID configuration prompt or hotkey. Enter the RAID configuration and set it up the way that you want it. Restart again, booting normally into Windows this time (from your original OS drive). You should still see your OS drive as it was before, but now have 2 new unallocated drives, that you can define as a dynamic volume using Disk Management.

Here is a link to MS on that topic:
How To Use Disk Management to Configure Dynamic Disks in Windows XP

zemlin · 26th June 2007

Adding RAID for a NON-BOOT disk should not be a problem. Install the drivers, boot the machine, and head for the disk manager.

dubrichie · 26th June 2007

thanks for the replies.

the SATA drivers for my mobo are installed, my system drive is SATA.

so i can just plug in the 2 new drives i want to use as RAID 1 when the machine is off, fire her up into windows and set up the desired RAID 1 on the 2 new, unformatted drives in windows disk management?

no need to install RAID stuff before getting to windows?

cheers,

KingDaddyO · 26th June 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by dubrichie

thanks for the replies.

the SATA drivers for my mobo are installed, my system drive is SATA.

so i can just plug in the 2 new drives i want to use as RAID 1 when the machine is off, fire her up into windows and set up the desired RAID 1 on the 2 new, unformatted drives in windows disk management?

no need to install RAID stuff before getting to windows?

cheers,

This type of RAID configuration is done at the system hardware level, before booting into Windows. Your system might recognize the new drives without addt'l configuration ... or it might not. So it's best to simply check your CMOS settings when you first start, after installing the drives. This way you know you are good up to that point and they should be available. But you don't have to do this.

Once you are in Windows and the drives are recognized in Disk Managment, you can allocate them as you wish.

sekim · 26th June 2007

XP includes a soft RAID that you set up after the system and OS are fully configured. It doesn't require a hardware RAID controller and associated drivers and it works well in my experience.

mwd · 27th June 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by dubrichie

i only want to set up 2 hard drives in a RAID 1 array as my main audio/recording drive

Richie my question is why?

If your primary gets a virus... so will your mirror. If you accidentally delete something important from your primary it will be gone from your mirror and if your data corrupts on your primary it will be corrupt on your mirror.

So you essentially have hardware backup not data backup.

Just curious if that's your objective?

dubrichie · 27th June 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by mwd

Richie my question is why?

If your primary gets a virus... so will your mirror. If you accidentally delete something important from your primary it will be gone from your mirror and if your data corrupts on your primary it will be corrupt on your mirror.

So you essentially have hardware backup not data backup.

Just curious if that's your objective?

indeed.

i will have other data-specific backup storage.

this is for hardware backup.

it'll help me sleep at night.

22nd June 2007	#1
dubrichie Lives for gear Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 2,319 Thread Starter	installing RAID after installing Windows? alrighty, i just put my new DAW pc together using an Intel S975XBX2 mobo and missed the opportunity to press F6 and install the RAID driver at the start of Windows installation. so, can i do this now without having to install windows and all from scratch AGAIN? please tell me i can... PLEASE! oh, and how would be great too! thanks, __________________ Regards, Richie. "a paradigm of restraint and good taste at a time of frequent excess"

26th June 2007	#4
dubrichie Lives for gear Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 2,319 Thread Starter	bump! bump! can anyone help with this? need to get my new audio drives in and set up as RAID 1 asap. thanks,

26th June 2007	#5
KingDaddyO Lives for gear Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: East Coast, U.S.A. Posts: 1,797	What type of drives are they? For ex, using 2 SATA drives, first make sure that the SATA drivers for your motherboard are installed. If not, then download the latest ones and install them per the vendor instructions. Then reboot and enter your CMOS configuration during the POST display, to verify that SATA support is enabled. Restart again and carefully watch for the RAID configuration prompt or hotkey. Enter the RAID configuration and set it up the way that you want it. Restart again, booting normally into Windows this time (from your original OS drive). You should still see your OS drive as it was before, but now have 2 new unallocated drives, that you can define as a dynamic volume using Disk Management. Here is a link to MS on that topic: How To Use Disk Management to Configure Dynamic Disks in Windows XP __________________ ~8^) The enemy isn't liberalism or conservatism, the enemy is bullshit -- Lars-Erik Nelson Now, when there's no longer surface noise and you actually have the ability to have the most extraordinary dynamic range, people aren't using it -- T-Bone Burnett The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them -- Albert Einstein I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white -- Frank Zappa

26th June 2007	#6
zemlin Lives for gear Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Indianapolis, IN Posts: 656	Adding RAID for a NON-BOOT disk should not be a problem. Install the drivers, boot the machine, and head for the disk manager. __________________ Karl Zemlin - www.sonicartistry.net I couldn't pick a pocket in a pile of dirty clothes - Chris Smither

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23rd June 2007	#2
mwd Gear maniac Join Date: May 2006 Location: Portales, NM Posts: 154	If you could install RAID driver afterwards there would of course be no need of the F6 during install. Too late to install as a "boot to RAID". Not too late to RAID other drive arrays.

25th June 2007	#3
dubrichie Lives for gear Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 2,319 Thread Starter	sorry for the late reply. i only want to set up 2 hard drives in a RAID 1 array as my main audio/recording drive, nothing to do with my system drive. can i do this without having to re-install windows and everything? thanks,

26th June 2007	#9
sekim Gear addict Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 363	XP includes a soft RAID that you set up after the system and OS are fully configured. It doesn't require a hardware RAID controller and associated drivers and it works well in my experience.

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