commonjunks

@Tripredacus, Thanks for sharing your idea. I would love to do it but my board only support 4 SATA and i have already spend like 800$ for 4 disks . Trying to see if i can use pci-express card for any use. While installing, Vista asked for drivers as it cannot find for RAID, i did feed provided drivers from Intel but seems problem is the USB . I think if no choice i have to spend 100$ for external DVD writer (but again if it don't workout then ).

Hi, I have seen there is a section for installing XP from USB but there is no section to install Vista from USB so i though maybe this is the right section, in case i am wrong please move to correct forum (advance apologies). I bought this system over the weekend to setup as NAS/HTPC and configuration is as below Intel DG45FC Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (taken from old pc) 2 GB ram 4 hotswap drive casing 4 x 1.5TB green WD. Everything went well on setup, i did configure single RAID 5 about 4.5TB (There are only 4 ports which i have already used for disks, so cannot use extra disk for OS installation). Unfortunately i didn't bought USB DVD drive and tried using "installing windows from USB". Now everything go smooth till it ask for driver as it cannot find RAID, after providing raid driver it show there is 4.xxTB drive available. There when i create new it break 4TB drive into 2x2TB drivers (i tried a few methods by create a separate partition of 10GB) but end up getting message "windows could not determine if this computer contains a valid system volume". So i don't understand why system can show 4TB driver but after creating partition and format still next screen show no valid volume. I have taken a few screen shots, please advise where i have done wrong. 1- Bios setup for RAID 2- As there is no HDD (RAID) information and optical device so bios is picking USB as first hdd (i am using USB key for installation). 3- Last but not least RAID 5 configuration with Bootable=No (there is no option anywhere to configure yes). Regards,