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XPS gen2 converting to RAID 0??
Ok, I hope someone can help me, because at this point DELL has tried but to no avail. I have a XPS gen 2 system. I just bought 2 new WD 250gig SATAII hard drives, installed them and then went to configure them in RAID 0, which went fine, then continue to try and install the OS and thats when things went wrong. I have a new reinstall disc for my system so it is XP pro with SP2. I get to the part of pressing ENTER to install windows and then it says my hard drives are not recognized. If I try to install the raid drivers for gen 2 via the F6 method during setup I do not even get to the press ENTER to install windows screen, but get the blue screen giving me a stop error code of 0x0000007b after the floppy has done its thing and such, right before the press enter to install Windows. I have all the things disconnected from the computer except monitor mouse and keyboard and have used the resource disc to check HD"S and memory, all pass. If I try to install the OS on a non raid set up no problems. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated, because at this point I am getting very frustrated. I bought the HD's from Dell and they claim they will work with my system. Now, they are saying to try and set the RAID 0 up with the Intel application in Windows after installing the OS on the one HD. Any thoughts?? Thanks all
Nancy
tphillips63
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Posted October 13th, 2006 20:00
Why not install on one drive and mount the other drive as my docs then you will have two separate channels working for the two main places reads and writes take place.
I would try finding drivers from Intel since the errors you are getting are for sure the driver. You might try getting the drivers for the systems PATA ports on a floppy also because if install cannot find the windows source in the first boot it gives the same error.
Even though you have the drivers from Dell's site I still think its a driver issue and once you get the correct ones you will be fine.