Vista and Raid Installing and Upgrading Vista Discuss Vista and Raid in the Windows Vista forums; Hi, One new user with a query! I have installed Premium after having some problems with my Motherboard! a Gigabyte GA-965P-S3, so anyone with this board will need ...

[wolfie]

Hi, One new user with a query! I have installed Premium after having some problems with my Motherboard! a Gigabyte GA-965P-S3, so anyone with this board will need to go to the Gigabyte site and use the FAQ for that board and follow the instructions. Anyway i installed Vista and followed the procedure to install my Raid drivers which was fine, but how do i know my system is using Raid? I do not see the feature to press CTRL-G to enter my raid set up anymore when my system is booting and have been unable to find any confirmation in Vista! I have contacted Gigabyte but they are very slow with any responces. I use 2x250 sata2 Western Digital hard drives which was fine in XP.

Help!
Stefan.

[felix8406]

Is it enabled in BIOS?

[Znod]

Welcome Stephan. We are glad you are here. I am not a raider, however, and, thus, can't help you on this one.

[crabby]

A RAID controller device should show up in the device manager under 'SCSI and RAID controllers'. Is it there?

crabby

[wolfie]

Thanks for replies, I have enabled Raid in the bios and it is showing in the device manager, and it could very well be working, but how would i know!

[crabby]

If the controiller software isn't installed I don't realy know... update your performance index and see what your primary hard drives index is?

crabby

[wolfie]

My index score for the hard drive is 5.3, which i suppose is pretty good, and the system seems very responsive etc. Anyway i would rather enjoy Vista than worry about the problem, so thanks for your posts!

[Znod]

Do you know what you index was before starting RAID? You should show a pretty decent improvement--assuming you have your before RAID index. My drive index is 5.4--from a 250MB 7200 RPM drive. What are your drive RPM's? I would assume at least 7200. If so, then I have reason to question whether your RAID is working. And, by all means, enjoy Vista whatever.

[Seansmit17]

5.3 is to low i think for raid... im just using 1 sata2 drive and my index for hdd performance is 5.5

[Snuffy]

I'm using SATAII and my HD under ATA was 3.0 since I can not test on performance after initial install... I can not tell about RAID or SATA..