Installing XP on a RAID drive

[Guest umoms]

I have a Toshiba Qosmio G25-AV13 laptop and there is no way to disable RAID so i have JBOD setup on both.

I have a RAID system setup as JBOD on both drive in my laptop and I formatted using DBAN... Now i boot with Windows XP Pro so i can install it and it only recognizes one of my drives. I loaded my RAID drivers. I go ahead and try to install XP on it anyway. I tried to format the drive again using FULL format, i tried a Quick Format, and I also tried leaving it as is. It will install the setup files and reboot my computer. So i take out the XP disc but then it doesnt recognize any disks. Does anyone know how i can reinstall XP back on this sysetm or how I can get XP to recognize both my drives even if i slipstreamed my RAID drivers in it already.

I have 2 60gig SATA hard drives in my laptop.

[KRYOGENIUS]

Hello

I have had the same problem long time ago. But this problem appears as well as on laptop than desktop computers ! Why ? Because Microsoft has locked several system files. So, Only windows 2003 or server family are able to mount and use raid.

here some links translated from french pages. I Hope it will help you than it help me.

Be careful, those modifications if they are made not correctly are dangerous for your datas !

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...Flanguage_tools

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...Flanguage_tools

Or search onto google => Windows XP and RAID 5

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