boostdemon
Limp Gawd
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I'm having a terrible time getting this setup to work. I'm using an Asus m5a97 R2.0 board with 4x 1TB WD Red drives for storage and 1 Kingston HyperX 120gig SSD for Win7 64 Home Premium. The thought is to have the SSD by itself for the OS and the 4 1TB drives in a RAID10 configuration totaling 2TB of semi redundant data storage thats still fast enough to do photo/video editing. So far i have not been able to get windows to even begin installing.
Drive setup:
Theres 6 ports on the board, i have them setup in a CFI Case with a hot-swap drive array. Ports 1-4 are on one controller and 5-6 are on another.
Controller 1-4 : 1TB WD Red drives
Controller 5-6 : HP BR Optical in #5, Kingston 120gb SSD #6
Mobo setup:
I've gone into the southbridge config and set the SATA controllers to RAID mode using the Legacy ROM option (i havent figured out how to setup RAID with the UEFI mode). I have left it with RAID for both controllers since switching 1-4 to RAID leaves only RAID and IDE as options for 5-6.
*I have tried in IDE for 5-6 as well with no luck
*I have tried with another 1TB WD Black drive instead of the SSD and also failed
Here's what happens:
So i switched the controllers back to default AHCI mode and boot from CD, deleted all the partitions i could find so it was unallocated space with no prior OS data. Rebooted and switched back to RAID, lost a drive in the array during this process and started that over. Installed again and got the following error:
*sigh*
So, what am i missing?
It's been a while since i've built a PC (for reasons exactly like this) and I have no experience with using RAID and a single drive together, no clue what UEFI is other than its how you get win7 to use a 2+TB drive as the boot drive (shouldn't be an issue for me)... I'm totally expecting someone to see this and say "Duh moron, you cant do ___ with ___."
Drive setup:
Theres 6 ports on the board, i have them setup in a CFI Case with a hot-swap drive array. Ports 1-4 are on one controller and 5-6 are on another.
Controller 1-4 : 1TB WD Red drives
Controller 5-6 : HP BR Optical in #5, Kingston 120gb SSD #6
Mobo setup:
I've gone into the southbridge config and set the SATA controllers to RAID mode using the Legacy ROM option (i havent figured out how to setup RAID with the UEFI mode). I have left it with RAID for both controllers since switching 1-4 to RAID leaves only RAID and IDE as options for 5-6.
*I have tried in IDE for 5-6 as well with no luck
*I have tried with another 1TB WD Black drive instead of the SSD and also failed
Here's what happens:
- Set both controllers to RAID mode in the SB Config
- configured the 4 1TB drives as RAID10 in the Legacy ROM
- Boot from win7 64bit Home Premium DVD and load Asus RAID driver: ahcix64s.inf
- Select Custom Install and chose Disc6 (SSD) and chose "New" (creates partitions) Hit next...
- Win7 install starts and fails with the following error:
Windows could not format a partition on Disc6. The error occured while prepairing the partition selected for installation. Error code: 0x80070057
- Then when i try to start back over it errors saying:
The drive is not ready for use: It's door may be open. Please check drive \Device\Harddrive6\DR6
- try to delete the partition to start over since it shat the bed and i get:
Failed to delete the selected partition. Error 0x80070015
So i switched the controllers back to default AHCI mode and boot from CD, deleted all the partitions i could find so it was unallocated space with no prior OS data. Rebooted and switched back to RAID, lost a drive in the array during this process and started that over. Installed again and got the following error:
Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computers hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computers bios menu.
*sigh*
So, what am i missing?
It's been a while since i've built a PC (for reasons exactly like this) and I have no experience with using RAID and a single drive together, no clue what UEFI is other than its how you get win7 to use a 2+TB drive as the boot drive (shouldn't be an issue for me)... I'm totally expecting someone to see this and say "Duh moron, you cant do ___ with ___."
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