jonnyd91

i have 2 brand new WD caviar 500GB black drives that i want o make a RAID1 array out of. THese drives will be a slave drive for storage. I already have Win 7 installed on a raptor drive. So i have 3 drives total.

I have a Gigabyte GA-X38-DS4. I went into bios and set SATA RAID/AHCI Mode to RAID. THen i hit f10 and rebooted. Then i created the array volume in raid 1 after the reboot. the array created fine.

I then rebooted again and windows could not load i keep getting BSOD STOP 0x0000007b.

So i loaded up the win 7 disk and tried to load the Intel(R) ICH9 SATA AHCI Controller driver onto the array. did that fine rebooted and BSOD again. Do i need to do anything to the drive windows is loaded on?

I tested out the drives not in an array first and they are fine i was able to partition and format them. what am i doing wrong??

billbartuska

After you enabled RAID in the BIOS did you go back and make sure that your Win7 disk was still set to be the boot device?

What MS has to say

You may receive a "Stop 0x0000007B" error message in the following scenarios:

* A device driver that the computer boot controller needs is not configured to start during the startup process. ie. can't load the RAID drivers because the empty array is set as the boot device.
* A device driver that the computer boot controller needs is corrupted.
* Information in the Windows XP registry (information related to how the device drivers load during startup) is corrupted.

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jonnyd91

i enable raid
created the array
added the driver via win 7 disk
then tried to boot windows normally

do i need to add the driver to the no array disk that win is on too?

jonnyd91

Can raid 1 be done if the HD that the operating system is on is not part of the raid array?
Does it matter ehich sata ports the drive are connected to?

i have my opertaing system HD not in the array and then the other 2 are in its own array.

ericeod

The problem you are having is that you have now set the ICH9R to RAID mode. Since you didnt install Windows 7 with this mode, the RAID drivers were never installed. Basically, you have to figure out how to install the RAID drivers into the pre-existing Windows 7 install.

I ran into this issue when trying to dual boot Windows 7 and XP for my brother-in-law's computer. In the end, I just set the controller to RAID mode, installed Windows 7 on the single HDD, and then installed Windows XP (using floppy and RAID drivers) on the second drive.

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jonnyd91

So i can reload windows, i guess. i just installed it anyway. So i would set up the raid for the othe 2 drives first in bios?

Then i can install windows on the single HDD and it will reconize that the other 2 are raid drives?

ericeod

You can install the windows HDD, then connect the other 2 drives. They should be recognized by the RAID controller since you already built the RAID 1 Array. If not, rebuild the array.

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jonnyd91

ok cool. so i can enable raid in bios and only have one hdd connected and windows is ok with that?

it doesnt need to see a raid drive in order to install the drivers?

just so long as raid is enabled in bios will tell the instalation to install the raid driver?

ericeod

Correct. I have RAID enabled on my brother-in-law's PC and he has one HDD running windows 7 and the other HDD running Windows XP. There is no RAID set up on the drives.

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jonnyd91

Ok,

I reinstalled windows. I got raid working. I installed the Intel Matrix Storage Manger.

It shows my volume i created and the 2 hard drives in raid under that.

However i dont see the hard drive when i go to my computer.

I see the c drive but not the other one.

Do i need to now boot the win CD and create a partition like i normally would for a regular HDD?

Thanks
John