Help Promise 378 Sata (non raid) Windows install

Ok I am now atempting a fresh WinXP install on my new WD Raptor.
The Problem being that XP setup does not see my Sata drive.
After F6 it gives me the following choices...
"Win2000 Promise Sata378 Controller"
"WinNT Promise Sata378 Controller"
"Win Server 2003 Promise FastTrak 376/378 Controller"
"WinXP Promise FastTrak 376/378 Controller"
The Obvious selection #4 has been tried multiple times, it never see's my Sata drive.
Options 1&2 give error as I did not copy Win2000 and WinNT folders on floppy.
Is XP based on NT or 2000? I dont remember.
Floppy was made according to "makedisk.txt in the 378_55.exe.
Ive tried multiple Bios settings under "On chip Ide configuration"
If you read my earlier post I had a problem with my current Windows install loading raid drivers by default. I think Xp setup is doing the same thing. How do I get it to load Sata drivers instead?
Thinking Promise or MSI (whoever) should have gone to the trouble of configuring seperate files, ie. 378_Raid.exe 378_Sata.exe!
Yes I have Changed boot order to the sata drive. Order is floppy, CD, Sata, Other (yes).
Tried legacy and native modes, Sata only and both etc. etc.
Still think the problem is with the floppy. Probably the "txtsetup.oem" file. But Im not enuff of a wizard to edit it proper.

Check the sata configuration in bios.
I set it in auto (it has auto,disabled enhanced and one more option,i don't remember)
or a 848p neo2-v board and it worked!
If you don't see it recognised by your bios it won't be recognised by windows either!
So don't bother letting it start the boot from cd unless you can see your drive in the bios.
What i suggest is that you continuously press delete at boot,
go into bios, change some settings, press F10, reboot,press delete again and if you still
don't see your drive,try others settings,press F10 etc.
Go into boot from cd,that is, xp installation ONLY AFTER you can see your drive in bios.

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Promise 378 SATA Raid question

Can someone tell me if my SATA drives are setup correctly given the details below? The only driver that works is the FastTrak 378 (not the SATA 378 driver). I want to make sure I am taking full advantage of my SATA drives. In the Promise setup it shows them operating as "Mode U5". What is this?
Any help appreciated.
My Drive COnfiguration is as follows:
SATA Drives are on SATA3 & SATA4 (Promise 378 Controller)
(as RAID 0 for performance)
Primary IDE Master - Sony DVD/RW
Primary IDE Slave - not used
Secondary IDE Master - ASUS DVD ROM
Secondary IDE Slave - ATA 133 Drive bay (Empty)
3rd IDE Master&Slave - not used
On Board Promise settings
FastTrak 378 BIOS Ver 1.00.0.27
2+0 Stripe - Functional
HIT CTRL+F for setup and
(in the setup it shows RAID 0 Drive Array as Mode U5)
Bios Settings
Boot Device Priority
1 - Floppy
2 - ASUS DVD ROM
3 - BBS-0(RAID):FT 378 Ary 1
On Board Promise IDE - As RAID
On Chip ATA's Operation Mode - Legacy Mode
ATA Configuration - PATA only
SATA Keep enabled - no
* PATA Keep enabled - no
PATA channel selection - both
* Combined Mode Option - PATA First Channel
* SATA Ports Definition - P0-3rd/P1-4th
* Configure SATA as Raid - no
(where * is greyed out)
Bios sees both DVD ROM & Sony DVD/RW
Boot to CDROM
Start Windows 2000 install
F6
"S"
load Promise FastTrak 378 Controller
Windows 2000 setup continues...

Everything looks good to me. Like Danny said though, you will need to change Bios to "Native Mode" for the Intel controller if you ever intend to use the Serial connectors. If not you're fine.
Also it's not clear from your post if you understand that you are using the 2 SATA drives as a Raid array. This gives you better drive performance but increases the chance of losing data. MAKE REGULAR BACKUPS.
The Promise SATA drivers are for using the Serial1&2, IDE3 connectors with single/separate drives where Raid arrays are not used.

875P NEO - Strange problem with SATA non RAID on Promise 20378

Hello,
After replacing an IDE harddisk suddenly my S-ATA drive connected to the Promise 387 controller can not be found anymore.
When booting it says: No devices found, BIOS not installed. I got the the advice to disable S-ATA in the BIOS, but then no S-ATA drive will work ofcourse.
So here is my situation:
- MSI 875P Neo-FISR (PCB 2.0) mainboard with A6758 BIOS version
BIOS settings:
Integrated Peripherals:
- On board Promise IDE = as S-ATA
On Chip IDE configuration:
- P-ATA only
- S-ATA keep enabled = NO (wouldn't know what this means)
- P-ATA channel selection = Both (if set otherwise it will not recognize the second IDE
controller, strange!)
- S-ATA ports defintion: P0-4th/ P1-3rd (standard setting)
- Config as RAID = NO
Also I have the Promise 1.0.1.29 drivers installed within XP, I know that MSI says 378_55 is the latest, but when installing a clean XP these drivers did not work at all, so I installed the old ones.Within XP it is recognized btw as being a "WinXP Promise SATA378 IDE controller"
What I am wondering now is:
Is it true the Promise controll controls the 3rd IDE controller as well as the S-ATA HDD? And if so can someone please tell what would be the correct settings in the BIOS when having 2 IDE HDD's connnected to the third IDE controller and 1 S-ATA disk on the Promise controller? Because the strange thing only 1 IDE HDD is recognized by XP, the other IDE HDD and S-ATA not.
Ok, I hope I was a little bit clear, I'm really desperate , so I hope you can help me out !!

Not sure what the problem is.
Like I said, all the settings in Integrated Peripherals>>On-Chip IDE Config should only affect the Intel controller(IDE1&2,Serial1&2)
The only interaction you have with the Promise controller(IDE3,Serial3&4) is through Integrated Peripherals>>Promise Controller(As SATA, As Raid, Disabled). You can also select a drive connected to the Promise as a boot device from Bios>>Advanced Features>>Boot Device Select.
I would take a step back and start over a little more slowly.
My assumption so far is that you have WinXP installed on a drive on the Intel controller and that it is booting/functioning properly.
You are trying to install 2 IDE and 1 SATA drives on the Promise controller.
1- In Device Manager, right-click on the Promise 378 controller and select uninstall. If you know for sure that the "Raid Consolel SCSI Processor Device" is from a driver you installed for the Promise controller, uninstall that too. Otherwise leave it alone.
2- Shutdown/Unplug power and disconnect all 3 drives from the Promise controller.
3- Plugin power/Boot to the Bios and set the Promise controller to "disabled". Also make sure Intel "On-Chip IDE Config" menu "Config SATA As Raid" option is set to "NO"
4- Save and reboot to WinXP. There should be no Bios errors and the Promise entries in Device Manager should be gone.
5- Shutdown/Unplug Power and reconnect 1 drive(the SATA to Serial3 for simplicity) Power + data cables!
6- Plugin power/boot to Bios and set Promise controller to "As SATA"
7- Save and reboot. You should see the drive name briefly after the initial post screen if you've disabled the MSI splash screen.
8- WinXP should say something about finding a new SCSI device. If not just see if it's in Device manager and right-click>>"Install Drivers" and point it to the driver folder from before and install the "WinXP Promise SATA378 (tm) IDE Controller Driver". Not the Fastrack ones for raid.
9- Now after another reboot if the SATA drive isn't visible from Windows Explorer, try the diskmgmt.msc utility again.
10- If all this works, try adding 1 of the IDE drives by shutting down again, installing the HDD and checking the Disk Manager. If the drives are already partitioned/formatted you wouldn't need to use Disk Manager. Repeat with the 3rd drive.
If this doesn't work, let me know which step you got to and the problem encountered.

P6N SLI Platinum - How to convert to RAID with existing non-RAID Windows 2003?

I built up my Windows 2003 machine on a single SATA drive and didn't load the RAID driver thinking I could convert later. Now I want to RAID 1 a second Raptor but I can't seem to get it to work.
I've loaded the RAID drivers in the OS, enabled the RAID functionality in the BIOS, and set the existing drive to be a single striped drive. I found some references that said that might work. Once you get a single striped RAID 0 drive you are supposed to be able to convert from RAID 0 to RAID 1 when you add a second drive.
But I don't get that far. It won't boot when I change the BIOS from non-RAID to RAID. The OS flashes a quick blue screen message about no boot device or driver being found and keeps rebooting. I'm able to get into the RAID section of the boot process to do the configuration from a single standard drive to a single striped drive, I just can't boot into the OS after that.
Anyone know a way to do this?

Quote from: Maesus on 23-April-07, 22:03:06
what is your 1st HDD is it the same raptor as your 2nd one?
Also, try this tips : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082/en-us
Yes, the Raptors are exactly the same. I had them in a hardware RAID configuration on my previous motherboard.
My OS is Win2003 so I'm not sure the XP article will apply, but thanks for the reference. It may lead me in the right direction.

Intel ICH5R or Promise 378 as S-ATA HDD controller?

Which one is better and faster choice? My pc configuration is shown in my signature.
Which of the controllers will give me better performance?
Thanks in advance...

hey guys, I have a theory.
Since Promise 378 s running on PCI bus, while ICH5R SATA has its 100MHz clock locked and independent of overclocking, I am interested to know whether overclocking the PCI bus and hence increase the performance of Promise 378 SATA RAID devices would show any improvement over the ICH5R? ATA100 or ATA133 doesn't make much difference as our HDD nowadays are still running quite slow.

Diamond Plus- Silicon Image controller set up single SATA 2 non raid "HELP"

Could somebody please tell me what drivers exactly do you have to load for Windows install off of the floppy? I loaded the silcon image 32 drivers at the install but the boot into windows takes a long time ! In bios SATA 1 SATA 2 are enabled -non raid for Silicon Image controller. Is their any kind of special procedure or trick for for useing the the controller non raid mode? Just added another HDD to my system formatted first with WD Lifeguard Tools and unhooked my othet drives and 1 of my dvd burners but for some reason It took like 2hrs 20 min too load windows when I specified additional drives their wer like 4-5 to choose from and the only non raid refference 1 was the first which I belive silicon image sys32 do you have to install all of them like the nvidea ones? man I had absolutely no problems setting up my 2- 80gb WD Caviars in raid 0 but the new 250gb WD caviar se16 is another story. ALL ARE SATA 2 DRIVES so I know that SATA 2 works on my board im useing it right now! Could any of the lLocal Forum Gurus with prior experience with the controller tell me exactly how to configure the set up NON RAID! PLLLLLLEASE.........
Thanks in advance

Thanks for all of you help Bas, and the quick responce! I was asking about which would be the prefered set up raid 0 on silicon image and sigle drive non raid on port 3-4 Nvidea or vice versa. I'm sure that it is a matter of prefference, but I do plan to overclock slightly when it cools down and I have done more reading on it! My primary goal is Stabilily and performance in harmonic balance whith out data corruption, or risking blowing things up! Any way hows life in Belgium? I have yet to travel to Europe, traveled to just about all of the states and lived on 2 of the Hawaiian Islands. So as you can tell Bas I am more partial to warm weather. I am quite a bit more in tuned with European culture than most people. My folks are from Australia and New Zealand so i'm not youre typical American! Shoot's Bro thanks for all of youre help and have a good weekend!!
Campbell

Can't see non-RAID SATA on promise in XP

First of all, I just spent over an hour searching and reading the forums trying to find an answer, and couldn't, so I reluctantly have to turn to posting an issue that probably has been covered before.
Simple issue: When setting the Promise controller to "as SATA" in the AMI BIOS, I can't see the disks in Windows XP. However, when I set the controller to "as RAID", and configure an array on the disks via the Promise BIOS (ctrl-F), I see the RAID array just fine in XP. Promise Fasttrack 378/478 drivers were installed during initial XP installation.
Also, I note that while I don't get the ctrl-F prompt for the Promise BIOS array configuration when the Promise controller is set to "as SATA" in AMIBIOS, I do see the Promise chip identify the disks as D0 and D1 in a very quick message that flashes by.
Is there a different driver I need to load for the Promise controller if I'm n ot using the SATA and IDE3 ports for RAID? Some particular arrangement of settings for the other On-Chip I/O that I need to be careful of?
I'm stumped...

Yes there are 2 separate drivers.
The Promise U-SATA drivers are on the floppy as well as the MSI CD.
Generally the floppy is only used during the install of WinXP where XP is installed on the Promise controller.
In your case, you already have XP installed on another drive and want to add the Promise U-SATA driver. Using the MSI CD would be preferable because it should auto-detect your hardware and offer the correct Promise driver providing you have Bios>>Peripheral Devices>>Promise Controller-"As SATA" selected.
It took me a while to figure out that the CD offers different choices depending on how you have the Bios set up.
After the drivers are installed correctly, you may have to use Windows Disk Manager(or a 3rd party util. if you have) to partition/format the drives before they show up in Explorer.

Promise 378 RAID controller wierdness

Motherboard: MS-6728 865PE Neo2
Main BIOS: AMI v2.5 29th Sep 2004
Promise 378 BIOS: v1.00.0.27
Disks connected to promise S-ATA RAID connectors: 2 x Seagate ST2500630 500 Gb SATA2
Serious instability in Promise 378 raid. Over a few cold reboots, can get each of the following in the BIOS screen, with no way of predicting which:
RAID OK and functional
Channel 1 fail array critical
Channel 2 fail array critical
I have replaced SATA leads, swapped the disk connectors around, and beefed up the power supply to 850 Watts, but with no joy, and this is before we even get into windows.
If the array actually does identify OK and XP boots, trying to format the drive gives lots of these device timeouts in the system event log:
The device, \Device\Scsi\fasttx2k1, did not respond within the timeout period.
I have downloaded the lowlevel drive utility S/W from the Seagate website, and both drives have checked out OK when connected through the 'normal' ICH5 SATA connectors..
So I've basically I've bought 1 Tb of disk space and an 850W power supply and can't do anything with it. Are the any issuse with these BIOS versions? Any help/suggestions all gratefully received.
Many thanks,
Tony

Yep - both drives got the long version of the Seagate Disk Tools test, and both passed without a hitch. That's five hours of my life I'll never get back.
Anyway - the Promise TX2300 RAID card arrived yesterday, so I disabled the motherboard Promise in the BIOS, installed the card in a spare PCI slot (my last one!), and connected the drives. It turns out that this card also wont recognise the cards at 3 Mb/s, but they worked instantly when the drive jumper was replaced to limit them to 1.5 Mb/s. Partitioned and formatted I now have a working 2 x 500 Gb RAID 1, though I'm going to leave it a week before I move anything important onto it.... er, 'just in case'.
To summarise, the motherboard Promise and this new Promise RAID card use different silicon so their implementations could be different, but neither would talk to the drives at 3 Mb/s. I strongly suspect the Seagate drives have a SATA2 problem. I could easily be wrong of course, but I'm off to the Seagate forums now to try and pin it down.
Dufflepod.

SATA HDD installation on K8N Neo2 Platinum, Non-RAID, Non-Bootable

Hi-
I’m a rank newbie on this forum (first post). I have a K8N Neo2 Platinum Mobo, which I’ve recently gotten up and running, with Windows XP-Pro SP2 installed on a single IDE drive. I would now like to add 2 SATA drives. I don’t need or want the SATA drives to operate in a RAID array, nor do I want them to be bootable. I want to use them independently for data storage. I read the following thread (I am posting here on a separate thread per the author’s wishes not to get his original thread too junked-up) :
Single SATA or Multiple Drive Array Setup FAQ
I have not yet plugged-in either of my SATA drives, because I don’t want to risk corrupting my existing boot (IDE) drive. I just had a few questions about the procedure given in the referenced thread, in the Single Drive Setup:
- Step 14 States: “Make sure the “RAID Mode” is Stripping and Striping Block at 64k or Optimal. Hit F7 (Finish)”. Is this correct for a single non-boot drive?
- Step 22 States: “As most of you know when you enter the Setup for Win2k/WinXP you will need to hit F6 to load additional drivers for other SCSI devices.” I assume this means I need to boot from the Windows CD. Is this true even if I already have Windows installed on an IDE HDD on this system? At what point will I need to hit <F6> ? Will I be prompted to do so?
- I have downloaded (from the MSI website) the NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER & NVIDIA Nforce Storage Controller (20 files, 1.3 MB total). Should I put these on a floppy? Or can I access them from a directory on my OS HDD?
- Should I go ahead and plug-in both of the 2 SATA drives I want to add to the system before beginning the driver installation? The only reason I would consider installing them one at a time is if it eliminated any confusion between RAID vs. independent (I want independent operation). If I do install them one at a time, do I have to install the driver twice?
Any help would be appreciated.
- the bbdude

OK Thanks JeanGuy and ssjkakaroto,
I have connected both of my SATA drives. They are enabled in BIOS but not set to RAID. I booted up to Windows on my IDE drive. In Disk Manager, the display shows Disk 0 (C: System), Disk 1 and Disk 2 as uninitialized, and my DVD (D:) drive. At this point, I could probably go ahead and run the Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard to get these disks formatted and be dome with ot now. Before I do that though, I just have a couple of more questions.
- I had already loaded the nVidia nForce3 system driver prior to installing the SATA drives, but I went ahead and did that again after installing the SATA drives and restarting Windows. I used Live Update, which went out to the MSI site and found version 5.03 of the nVidia nForce3 system driver. I'm not sure how to find the "Nvidia 5.10 driver package which include the latest SATA driver", ssjkakaroto referred-to. The Live Update install procedure did ask if I wanted to install IDE driver and I said yes. It then asked to over-write what I already had there (I said yes to that too). As the file names streamed-by, I though I saw some filenames with nv... listed. So, bottom line, is I'm not sure if I have the lates and greatest nVidia SATA drivers installed. How can I find out what drivers are installed?
- As I mentioned in my previous post, I have also downloaded and unzipped the NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER & NVIDIA Nforce Storage Controller (20 files, 1.3 MB total) from the MSI site; however, I don't know how to "install" this now that I have the files. There are a couple of .exe and a .bat file (bit no setup.exe).
I may already have everything I need to partition and format these drives. I just want to bve sure I'm not skipping a step that is essential to optimal performance.
Thanks -
- bbdude

RAID 0+1 using Promise 378 Controller

I'm having trouble installing two SATA drives in my system and the problem is driving me nuts
I have two existing PATA drives on the Promise controller configured as a RAID0 array, which is working fine with XP SP2. I want to add the two SATA drives (Seagate Barracuda 200Gb SATAs) to the array and configure it to sripe across like drives and mirror across the dissimilar drives. So the two PATA drives are striped and that striped array is mirrored across to the striped pair of SATA drives.
The manuals all state that it's possible to configure the promise controller for 0+1 (which is what I think I need, but when I power up the PC with the SATA drives connected to SER3 & 4, the promise controller doesn't recognise them when configured in bios "as raid". It sees the drives when the controller is configured "as sata", but then the raid bios is bypassed at POST and obviously the boot doesn't happen.
So my question is, am I missing something with the Promise Controller setup, or does the bios version I have not support Raid 0+1. I guess I need an option that says "as sata with raid", which isn't there. Which BIOS version do I need to do this? or is it something else?
Am I being dumb or do I have to delete everything and start again using the intel ICH5R controller?
The two recordable drives are connected as primaries on the two non-raid IDE controllers.
I'm new here, so any help anyone can lend a hand would be greatly appreciated
Cheers
Tony

Hi Danny,
Yes, I did read it, but it did not address my particular situation - i.e. all four drives connected to the promise controller. The bits that do seemed to be saying "look at the manual", which isn't helping me. Last night, I updated the mainboard bios to 2.4, which didn't make any difference, so I'm still stuck.
Thanks for taking the time to reply
Tony

Promise 378 - RAID 0 - Recovery settings required

I have a K8T NEO FISR motherboard with two Samsung 80gb SATA drives connected in RAID 0. Things were going along fine for the last several months and suddenly a couple of days ago, something went wrong and one of my drives dropped out of the array. Yes, it was stupid not having a current back-up of my hard drive, but regardless I am now trying to recover my files. They seem to be there, and a couple of different programs I'm playing with seem to be able to recover the files but they are corrupted. In looking at the files, especially JPG's it seems like the way the files are meshed is incorrect, and so I'm trying to find the default settings for the Promise 378 RAID 0 configuration.
I'm trying a program called File Scavenger and its asking for:
First Sector for both drives
Striping Block Size - I believe this is 128kb per the information displayed in the Promise 378 raid configuration
Data Blocks per Parity Group
Boot Sector - defaults to 319 but not sure if this is correct
From the way the pictures look, I think perhaps the setting that is causing me the most trouble is the First Sector location for the second drive... but being able to confirm all settings would be rather nice also.
Any help or suggestions are appreciated,
Cheers,
Arba

Yep - both drives got the long version of the Seagate Disk Tools test, and both passed without a hitch. That's five hours of my life I'll never get back.
Anyway - the Promise TX2300 RAID card arrived yesterday, so I disabled the motherboard Promise in the BIOS, installed the card in a spare PCI slot (my last one!), and connected the drives. It turns out that this card also wont recognise the cards at 3 Mb/s, but they worked instantly when the drive jumper was replaced to limit them to 1.5 Mb/s. Partitioned and formatted I now have a working 2 x 500 Gb RAID 1, though I'm going to leave it a week before I move anything important onto it.... er, 'just in case'.
To summarise, the motherboard Promise and this new Promise RAID card use different silicon so their implementations could be different, but neither would talk to the drives at 3 Mb/s. I strongly suspect the Seagate drives have a SATA2 problem. I could easily be wrong of course, but I'm off to the Seagate forums now to try and pin it down.
Dufflepod.

Neo4 Plat SLI using SATA Raid cannot install WinXP 32

I recently purchased the neo4 platinum and was quite amazed what all comes with the board. However, I have spent quite a while trying unsuccessfully to get winxp installed. I was previously using a pci rocketraid card to run my 2 maxtor drives as a stripped raid.
Before doing the final shutdown and swap, I went into the rocketraid and deleted the array. Swapped boards (raid card did not follow), plugged in the 2 maxtors into sata ports 1 and 2. Configured nvidia raid bios settings to enable raid on sata ports 1 and 2. Entered nvidia raid bios, and created a stripped raid array with the 2 maxtors. Boot to winxp install, f6 and installed both drivers on included nvidia diskette. When I get to the partition selection, I have nothing but 'Unknown disk' listed several times. If I try to access one of these 'partitions' by either deleting or selecting, the system crashes (blue screen).
So, I deleted the nvidia array, the reinstalled my rocketraid card, and created an array on it. Went through the same install sequence, and am able to see the array as a selectable drive, and am able to install winxp on it. So, I am a bit lost on where to go from here.. I tried searching both here and google and I didnt see anyone with this particular problem. Id really love to get this bad boy running (a good upgrade for me), but it seems I am destined not to. Please, someone help!

Quote from: syar2003 on 09-July-05, 18:10:53
Inside the nvraid rom bios make sure to clear disk data and set raid bootable .
gah, sorry, I should have put that in my original post (did those).
So, a bit of an update... after a bit more futzing around, I have tried multiple times on deleting, recreating (and clearing data) arrays, trying with and without setting to boot. After the 2nd or so array creation, my problem has slightly changed. Now, windows install does not recognize any hdd's present and wont continue.
Out of curiosity, I blasted the array from the nvidia bios, then went into main bios, disabled nvidia raid, and enabled sil raid. Hooked up the drives to sil raid, and created an array. Windows install see's the array, and is currently installing to it. Now, while this may function as a work aorund (if it completes) I think I read somewhere the nvidia raid is not on the pci bus, but the sil raid is (which is why I want to use the nvraid). So, aside from any input or suggestions about resolving the problem I am having, any input on the differences between the two raid setups?
edit- windows successfully installed on the sil raid array, but I still would like a fix for the nvraid

890GXM-G65 Bios Raid and install Windows 7 Fresh

latest bios installed it is "1.D"
one intel ssd that is 80GB
two OCZ ssd`s that are 60GB each
one older IDE dvd burner
i really hate IDE as many of you do im sure.
maybe some of you can help me with my problem.
what i would like to do is have all 4 sata ports used
1 sata port for dvd burner (that i would buy Again)
1 sata port for intel ssd
2 sata ports for ocz ssd`s that i would like to bios raid
i would then like to install windows 7 from the sata dvd burner (fresh install)
so the help i would need is the "exact" settings for the bios (raid, ahci, ide) and also what settings to use in the seperate raid bios setup area.
i tried to do this about a year ago and was not able to do it because the raid bios was acting weird when you would put the two ocz ssd in a raid0 then the sata dvd wouldnt work and even the sata intel ssd didnt work right
whenever the 4 sata ports are put in anything to do with raid (then anything you dont want to put in the raid (ex: sata burner or single intel ssd) dont work)
so if anyone can help on this i would be much appreciated.
thanks

http://www.overclock.net/t/700470/tutorials-real-world-windows-7-ssd-tweaks-and-optimization
In bios make sure you select ACHI for the sata port to which your ssd is wired.
Honestly, with the costs of everything coming down so much, I would sell the ssd's you have. Buy 1 256gb ssd for your os and frequently used programs / games etc and 1 500 gb hdd for movies music and the like. If you are stuck with what you have, use the 60gb ssd for the os, then research if trim works when used with windows raid. IE you go into disk manager and create a single logical drive from there. Then you would have a 2nd decently sized logical drive. If trim doesn't work even with windows raid, I would be back to selling 2 of the drives...

RAID after Windows install on Z77A-GD65

Hey guys,
I've been looking around for a long time for a clear answer, but can't seem to really find one. I got three 3TB disks that I want to run in RAID 5, but I already have Windows installed and don't want to reinstall it.
I've read a lot about doing it via BIOS and UEFI not working properly or needing a lot of work before it works correctly, but no conclusive results or guides on how to do it. I've read and tried a few of the online guides that include registry changes etc., but none of those seem to work. I really just want to get the array working. If it's really just not possible, I wonder if it's possible to do when I install a new Windows (probably W10 by then), because again, I read stories about that and it's supposed to be possible, but the descriptions are too vague.
So, is it possible to RAID 5 my disks IN UEFI after installing Windows?
Thanks in advance!
Boeman

Is the windows installation on one of these disks?
RAID 5 needs initialization before it is first being used so it isn't possible to keep windows if it is on one of the disks being RAIDed.
I remember there was a way to change SATA mode from IDE to AHCI or RAID on the P45, but last experience I had with transferring windows(XP) from one disk to another with ghost did not work well. It did boot but network was disabled and Microsoft assistant told me I must reinstall windows.
There was also a procedure to migrate windows between different platforms for windows XP, but you had to "repaire" installation (rather clean Install) which is almost like clean Install without reinstalling other software.
Best start fresh as suggested by Nichrome, shortcuts always result in wasting more time.

NEED HELP w/ P35 Neo Combo and Windows XP Install Stop 0x24 error BSOD

First a little background, in case it's relevant:
I was running a 865PE Neo2 with 4 x 1gig Corsair DDR2 6400. Otherwise, same specs as below. Ran it for 2 years without a hitch, then got a virus that corrupted my profile and had trouble booting, logging on, and persistent virus messages. Long story short, I fried the BIOS and decided to replace the mobo and upgrade the memory, keeping the rest of the system intact. I previously had windows installed on both partitions of the HDD but changed the name of the directory for Windows on the C: drive so it would boot from the D: drive.
I have replaced 865PE with the P35 and changed the boot sequence to boot from CD. The BIOS loads fine, and I get to the windows setup screen ok. Whether I opt for Recovery Console, or a new install of Windows, I get a BSOD error message below.
STOP: 0x00000024 (0x001902FA, 0xf7906700, 0xf7906400, 0xf7103bef)
ntfs.sys Address F7103BEF base at F709f00, Datestamp 3d6de5c1
I tried with both new and old memory (in the right slots) and get the same message. I booting with no memory because I read in another post that the system should beep to indicate no memory and there was no beep.
BIOS recognizes the HDD, CPU and Memory so not sure what the problem is. Should I try taking the HDD out and reformatting it on another PC? (not easy since I don't have another desktop pc) Please help with some suggestions. Thank you.
System Specs
P35 Neo Combo Mobo
BIOS ver 1.3
E6400 Intel Dual Core
1 x 2 gig Crucial PC3 8500 DDR3 1066 mhz
nVidia 8800 GTS graphics
WD 250 gig Sata HD w/ 2 partitions of 125 ea.
Antec 500W SmartPower PSU
Installation disk is Windows XP Pro sp1

STOP: 0x00000024 indicates corrupt NTFS file system on the hard drive
Reformat would be the best thing to do. Download WD Data Lifeguard for your HDD, make the disk and run it.
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?level1=6&lang=en
Quote from: FlyingSteve on 18-August-09, 10:29:00
I didn't know that the P35 Neo board ran ddr3...
That's where the 'Combo' part in the name comes into play, 2 DDR2 or 2 DDR3.
From MSI description of MB:
Main Memory
• Supports two unbuffered DIMM of 1.8 Volt DDR2 667/800 SDRAM. (Max: 4GB)
• Supports two unbuffered DIMM of 1.5 Volt DDR3 800/1066 SDRAM. (Max: 4GB)

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