Cannot see RAID?

[yuthra253]

Okay I am having some problems. I have two new SATA hard drives. (I have a Raptor I am using for my Windows install that is working fine). The drives are Western Digital 250 GB WD2500KS. If I just plug them in normally I can get them to work no problems but I cannot get them into a RAID 0 and working. Mobo is the K8N Neo4-F. I originally had PATA RAID drivers installed for my two old drives which I am not using anymore but no SATA RAID drivers.

I can enable the SATA RAID on the board and it can see and will let me RAID 0 the two drives. Once that is completed I can see the RAID in the BIOS but not once I get to windows.

Any suggestions?

[directhex]

you need to install your sata fakeraid drivers

not sure how to do that post-installation though

[yuthra253]

you need to install your sata fakeraid drivers

not sure how to do that post-installation though

That is what I kind of figured. I didn't know they were called fakeraid drivers but I was thinking I might be screwed since I didn't install during OS install time.

I think I might just start over from scratch. All my registry setting from all the programs on the drive that failed is making it a pain when trying to uninstall/reinstall some programs so it might be easier to start over completely.

My Raptor is probably about 5 years old (my main drive). Is this something I should consider replacing so that I don't have problems with it failing too or do you think it is reliable enough to justify using it until failure?


Thanks for the help so far!

[Splash]

Basically you need to install the nvRAID drivers that come on the CD that came with your motherboard - this should allow the OS to see the array.

[dangel]

That is what I kind of figured. I didn't know they were called fakeraid drivers but I was !

They're not it's just directhex being sarcastic because it's software driven RAID - splash is right (and a bit more helpful) with nVRAID. Before you ask _yes_ software RAID is still worth having.

[yuthra253]

Basically you need to install the nvRAID drivers that come on the CD that came with your motherboard - this should allow the OS to see the array.

w00t. That DID work. Thank you very much. After reading your post it seemed so obvious. For some reason I kept wanting to install drivers from WD and it did not occur to me that the drivers I need are going to be with the mobo not the drivers.

Thanks for your help everyone - it is now working!!

[Splash]

Glad I could help!