Raid 0 ?

i have raid 0 setup and cant get my dvd drive to boot first so it can see my win7 dvd.
i have a sata dvd drive. is this the problem? sense my raid is on my sata also?

 

Just set your DVD drive as the 1st boot device, and you'll be fine.

like so:

1st boot device: DVD-Drive
2nd Boot Device HDDRaid
3rd Boot device: Disable or USB

 

i do.
still won't work unless i go into bios\ intergrated peripherals \raid configeration\ in sata operation mode and change raid to ide. then dvd boots first.
but win7 sees my drives now as 2 drives not 1 and asks me which drive to install windows on.

if this matters, i have my hd's on sata 1&2 and my dvd drive on sata 3.

 

Try changing your harddrives to 2 and 3, change your DVD drive to 1.

 

do you mean in my case or in the bios?

 

Bios

 

So you went into the bios and made the dvd drive boot first? If you are still having issues, did you think that perhaps your dvd drive is messed up? Did you try the boot selection option at post?

 

well i just changed them in my case.

is that cool?

 

my dvd drive is fine it works if i disable raid.

 

Only if you want it to look different.
Move the DVD drive to the top of the list in the BIOS setup for boot priority.
Use page up/page down keys.

 

I meant SATA 2 & 3 on the motherboard, but in the bios it shouldn't really matter which connectors you have it plugged into. Just how you have the boot sequence arranged.

 

cant you do boot device selection and pick the dvd drive once?

 

ok......it worked! :banana:

here is what i did.

i changed them in my case.

i put my dvd drive on sata 1 as pri-master
my hd's on sata 2&3 as pri-slave & sec-slave
then disabled sec-master
then rebuilt array
rebooted and my dvd drive lanched win7
win7 sees my hd's as 1 not 2 anymore


thanks gurus.

 

raid 0 used to be such a pain in xp but its worth it

 

quick ?

will windows format my drives before install?

or did that get taken care of when i rebuilt my array?

reason im asking is i had a few viruses on my drives and want them gone.

its showing win7 taking up 9 gigs...... is that right?

 

You can format the drives before installing windows, when you select the drive you want windows on, hit the format button, then next to install windows.