SpeedZone
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 Posted: Wed, 07 May 2008 18:41:47 Post Subject: |
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| edvallie wrote: | Re-Speedzone:
You say that your RAID0 array is on partitions G and H, and the lettering system is really only used on windows. Your RAID array should only be viewed as one physical drive inside of windows. I'm hoping your referring to two seperate harddrives, because if you somehow managed to get a RAID0 array onto a single disk, it'd probably hinder your performance a lot more than helping it.
I've never heard of that issue with a missing driver like that. Each OS ought to be installed on its own filesystem, theres no reason it should have dependencies on any others. If you are really convinced that is the cause(somehow) Try pulling the extra drives when you're installing the OS to make sure there aren't any files that are being linked to from another install.(Though this really shouldn't be happening in the first place) |
Regarding my RAID0...if i remember correctly...it was first seen just as one single drive, but i split it in 2 equal partitions (so windows assigned G and H letters). Not sure whether this is only possible for IDE RAID0 or its same for sata too. And they work flawlessly...unless...now that you mentioned all this...although the PCI controller card is ATA-133 (max)....and drives are ATA-100....the max transfer of drives is limited to just under 100MB/s (although it can be clearly seen in i.e. HDTune, that they could do much more all the way till some 60% when the rate starts droping below 100MB/s). I though that if they were both on separate channels, set as masters, that EACH drive could write/read with up to 100MB/s (or at least up to it's max - around 60MB/s)...so up to 200MB/s(120MB/s) total, and/or that at least burst rate could be higher than that, but again its also just under 100MB/s). Strange.  
And about NTDL stuff...read here : http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Troubleshooting+Windows+XP and here : http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t354200.html , and you'll see that this actually happens. 
From what i remember....when i had XP on C drive (which also had partition D) and i installed another XP on E partition (this is second hdd, which also had F partition)....and later tried to remove C drive....and set that "E" drive as boot drive....it wouldnt boot. And all that because (by my opinion - but you can read more at neosmart link above - about missing ntdlr,ntdetect and boot.ini ) windows sets up those 3 files needed for boot ONLY on C drive...and if you remove it like in my case...even though that "E" drive becomes C drive if it's the only one in the system...it's still missing those 3 (or more?) crucial files which are needed to boot. So in this case....before removing the C drive...you would need to copy those files to E drive.
And that's why i asked all that before...because i know i had hard times with setting everything up later and dont want this to happen again in this case...I want WinXP on one hdd....Vista on second...and that either of them can be booted without any problems even if the other drive is removed.
The end. Thanks for reading.   
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