Win XP SATA RAID Driver Install - A Rant

[deadarcher]

geek squad, lol. yea xzin, before i went to bed i thought to myself 'oh shit, ntfs not fat' heh. oh well. anyways, whats your progress on it? did it get resolved? do you still need a command prompt with ntfs support? im sure i have one somewhere...heh

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[keyclone]

hey xzin, i just got a bootable disc yesterday (free from microcenter... what's a geek squad ) that has a ton of system utilities on it.. including ntfs from dos-like prompt.

i could make an image of it for you if you need it. just let me know.

[Xzin]

Nah, I got it to boot with the proper F6 drivers, but now it thinks I have a 750 gig drive. I don't.

Continuing to make progress, should find a fix by tonight.

Just wastes my time.

lol @ calling geek squad. They would just reformat it and steal my porn.

[deadarcher]

blah...that just sucks i hate messing with raid. but after the install mine works just fine, and its a pretty nice performance increase. of course, i never store any useful information on my raid i just use it to run windows.

and lol @ your geek squad remark. but if you still need some software......or anyone needs some software, i can get my hands on a lot of stuff..so just ask.

[Xzin]

Finally fixed it. Had to do a complete registry restore.... and even managed to snag another completely unknown error that involved rebooting several more times. I love it when you press F6 10+ times it never registers. So you reboot and try pressing it once, thinking perhaps the KB "buffer" may have been overloaded. It still doesn't prompt to enter a 3rd party driver.

2 or 3 more reboots later (and it has to load about 10 minutes worth of files with every reboot) it FINALLY gets the memo but then gives some bogus error (most likely due to floppy drives being, oh, 10 years old and prone to failure).

I had such hope for the Jahshaka video editor too - but yeah it completely hosed my system. Guess it is time to find something better.

At least I had the foresight to backup my registry files.... reinstalling EVERYTHING would have been....

A 2 - 3 day job. Even with the data.

Of course in Linux..... it would be a 10 minute job.....