i have the asus m2npv-vm and using the onboard RAID controller. I made a raid 1 array with 2 * 80gb HDs and installed XP on it on a 10gig partition.
Now the problem,
I set the raid array to be bootable....
In bios if i set the array as the boot device it doesnt boot and comes up with a "cant find a bootable drive blah blah" message. Now if i set the CDrom drive as the boot device, it will boot into windows... with winxp2 CD in it. As in it seems to think the IDE DVD drive is a bootable HD? Ok the CD does have a boot.ini... but it wouldnt be correct for my system...
Any ideas?
I have an idea, can someone confirm?
When i installed XP from booting the CD it had to write to the E: drive (another HD) some data... So to boot to my XP installation i need the CD in... which when the PC boots the CD it looks to the next avaliable non raided HD (Eto get the data to book the XP installation?


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to get the data to book the XP installation?
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will defiently have to check although it makes for a interesting sort of security feature hehe

