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CHAINTECH VNF4 Ultra Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard M101 433 maybe? Don't have the box with me right now.

I think I will try that and try getting newest chipset drivers before I go flashing the BIOS. I have never had a problem doing that, but these Chaintech drivers scare the crap out of me. Latest one I found is technically a beta. EDIT: No go. Gets the BLUE SCREEN again, just says stop error, no mention of UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. I am using the drivers from the 6.86 nForce set. I am pretty sure these are the latest for my system. Guess I will attempt to flash the BIOS. I have DLed a version 5.0 of the BIOS for this board. Supposedly it is a beta though. Maybe I should have gone for 4.0? EDIT 2: Ok, FLASH of the BIOS went fine. I believe I put on v5.0 now. Must have done something because my RAID was disabled when I went back into the BIOS. BTW, I went to nvidia.com , and I tried to download the newest nForce4 driver set for my setup, but I have no idea when one to get. I think its the 400/405/410 (no integrated graphics) one, but not sure.

You should be stripped of your damned title. You're not the hardware guy, you're the damned jester. The first basic law of science, matter cannot be created nor destroyed, it can only change forms. Hard drive space doesn't just disappear. As nmX.Memnoch already pointed out, nothing is lost, it's just a discrepancy in the methods of calculation. And before you complain and say "that what I said!", no, it's not what you said. If you know the correct answer but don't have the patience to take the time and effort to actually type out the correct and proper answer in your post, just don't post. There is absolutely nothing normal about the behaviour of your RAID array. I would suggest that you attempt the following to resolve your issue, in this order: - Update your BIOS to the latest version. - Re-install your chipset drivers - Make sure your Windows is up to date with all the latest updates - Re-install your RAID drivers (this usually requires you to download the latest F6 floppy disk, extracting it and manually updating the driver through Device Manager). DOH! Owned by the difference between 1024 and 1000. Now it makes since. Oh well, they are still a little over 300GB. Drivers it is. I hate updating nForce drivers. Last time I did, my vid card declined in performance and I got random errors with my built in Ethernet card.

I can not format them in CM. Not sure what I am doing wrong. nForce4 board. nvRAID shows the drive as healthy. The SATA drive I already had (the 80GB with XP Pro) is on SATA3. The two new drives are on SATA1&2. I have RAID enabled on those two SATA channels, but not the others.

I have 3 SATA drives. 1 80GB with WinXP Pro on it 2 320GB drives, set to RAID0. However, when I go into Windows, and go to My Computer, I can not access what should be the RAID drive, F:\. If I go to Computer Management, and go to Drive Manage, it shows 3 Disk. The 80Gb C:\ drive. An UNKNOWN 300GB drive, and then the F:\ at 600GB, but has no File System, despite the fact that I attempted to install XPHome on there (which does attempt to boot but fails). Something seems incorrect about all this. Why is it showing 3 disk? I know there is 3, but should the RAID0 show up as one? And why am I losing 40GB of space? I know you lose some, but I didn't know that much.

Hmmmm, good idea about trying it ona non-raid first. I was reading stuff here: http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t23915.html but nothing really seemed relevant to my problem. Uhg, wish I had another HD to work off of. I recreated the slipsteamed CD with drivers specific for my computer, and I am going to see what happens. If it does not work again, I will just have to try a simple install on one of the drives until I get it to work. EDIT: I do not think it is my ISO I created. Even with adding all the nForce drivers, I get the same issue. Upon restart and what should be the first time boot of XPHome after install, I get the XPHome screen, and then the blue screen, which says UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_DEVICE.

I have an old Dell Re-install CD from about 4 years ago. I have used it to install a fresh copy of XP before. It has SP1 on it. The last time I used it, was on my old Duron machine just to see if it would indeed work, and it did. So I thought I would see if I could make a slipstream/unattended WindowsXP package from this same CD. I followed the instructions, based on the beginner section. The only thing I did not do is make it unattended. My goal was to simply make an updated ISO that had SP2 and all the hotfixes. I put on all the Hotfixes for XP I found in the forums except the last one in the list. The installation went without a hitch. I was installing it on a 600GB RAID0 I had setup. Everything appeared to work fine, went through the format and install just fine. However, when I finally attempt to boot into that RAID0, the WinXP Home screen comes up, and after about 15 seconds, I get a Blue Screen saying it encountered an error and to restart, or restart in Safe Mode. Where should I begin with the troubleshooting? Could it be my ISO package? Is it because I was using a Dell CD? Is this even possible to do, using a Dell CD? Should I have gone even further and removed all the Dell stuff from the package and put in the drivers I would need for my hardware? Thanks in advance.