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RAID / ARRAY Help

Hi everyone,

 

I need your help.  I had an XPS M1730 with a RAID 0 2 x 320 GB drive.  Due to some issues, my vista was causing video driver issues and hanging up.  Out of whim, I decided to go into the RAID setup (CTRL - I) and delete the raid.  

 

Now, I realize, I have lost all my data, thats fine, I made a back up.  My goal is to setup UBUNTU on 1 drive and Vista x64 on another.  As usual, I have a retail copy of x64 but when I go into the setup and try to install, it says "this volume is not compatible", can someone please help?

 

My second thought was to recreate the RAID but I do not have the CTRL I option any more as all i get is "no operating system found".  Can someone please walk me through on how to get my system back up and running?

 

Also, has any one heard driver issues with 8700M SLI? Mine seems to keep crashing (the driver).

 

Please advise and many thanks!

 

Rahul 

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    TheRealFireblad

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    Posted October 1st, 2008 04:00

    If you do a 'recovery', your RAID setup should be returned to how it was when you got the laptop.
    You can then look into dual-booting Vista with Ubuntu - articles/guides for which are aplenty.

    If you particularly want them on different drives however, the drives will need (quick-) formatting again first.
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    Posted October 1st, 2008 18:00

    Okay, so I got the intial resolved, the second problem.  I removed the RAID and Vista will not let me install and it says that "this volume does not meet the criteria for installation".  Also VISTA does not see two drives even after the ARRAY has been removed, only 1 and will not let me install to even that?

     

    Any help? I ended up just installing UBUNTU but would like to install vista then ubuntu.

     

    Please help.

     

    Thanks

    Rahul  

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    stefanrp97

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    Posted October 1st, 2008 18:00

    In the BIOS, make sure you have Sata Operation under the category of Onboard devices set to Raid Autodetect/AHCI
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    Posted October 7th, 2008 18:00

    I am no expert, but my brother and I just broke my RAID 0 on my 1730, rebuilt it and reinstalled the O.S. (which I must add gave me quite a performance boost).  But, I remember him having a similar error message in the process.  Stating that the computer only recognized one HDD and it failing to install an O.S. on a RAID.

     

    So....

     

    Did you try and set up the RAID using your total HDD volume?  You need to leave a "specified" amount of volume available for, I guess, the RAID controllers/info.  We were not able to find the exact volume needed for my setup, so we used trial and error till finally it loaded.  As far as the comp only seeing one HDD, I don't know why this was happening, but after we played with the RAID volume everything worked out.  

     

    Let me know if you can get this far in your installation.  If not, I can talk to my brother and try and get a more detailed description of what exactly we(he) did.

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    Posted October 8th, 2008 15:00

    Hi there,

     

    Thanks for the help! I gave up on the dual boot.  Just recreated the raid for 600 gigs (holy space) and installed Vista 64, and partitioned the RAID into two.  Works like a charm, but who really needs 600 gigs loL!

     

    Love this system, going to augment it with a Mac air book! haha! cause its wayyy tooo big! 

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