[Drizzy]

I dont have a floppy drive. I just bought 2 drives for a raid that I want to run my OS off of. I am completely new to setting up the raid but I have done some reading online.

My mobo is DFI Ultra-D. I went into the bios and enabled the SATA drives, and set them up in a raid config. Then I put the raid drive to be my primary bootup drive after my cd drive. It shows it as healthy and looks good. I assume this is correct to have it as the primary drive...

Now I have created a slipstream CD with an ISO file using nlite. Whenever I try to boot off it it I get this error: Unable to load dos! Hit any key to retry

Of course if I hit a key its a loop... I've tried using an older version of nlite and burning on the slowest speed and putting CDIMAGE.EXE into the nlite folder. None of this has worked. Still doesnt boot off of the cd with the ISO folder. I've tried a few different brands of media that I have both CD and DVD's...

Let me see if I understand correctly - on a normal setup the cd would run, install the RAID drivers, then I could install windows onto the RAID drive.

I have read of other people having boot issues off of the ISO created. Ideas?

[Kiki Burgh]

hi Drizzy! just a quick question, did you integrate your RAID drivers? to help the otehrs who coulkd probably aid you in this, please attach you Last_Session.ini ...

[Drizzy]

Yes I did - following the tutorial from fernando - integration of the NVRaid drivers into windows XP. I used the 6.86 Nforce drivers and had the SATARAID subfolder .inf file as the Textmode driver and the SATA_IDE folder .inf file as the PnP driver. That all seemed to go ok but for some reason the CD (or DVD) that I burn with the ISO file doesnt seem to go anywhere... I have attached the .ini file from my last session.

Thanks for the quick response!

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[Drizzy]

Not much help here - but I did figure it out. I'll post the problem here in case anyone has the same issue. If you are using CDBurnerXP Pro you need to NOT burn the ISO as a bootable disk but you need to go to file -> Write disk from ISO file. Such a little mistake but had me stumped for a while... anyway got the raid setup going...