Mar 13th 2012, 16:36:11
I have a new build.
I bought 6 3TB WD drives and activated RAID 5.
I was not able to install Win7.
After loading RAID drivers, building a 2TB volume and copying files, Expanding files, etc. Windows kicked back a message "Windows was not able to prep this computer to boot. Please retry the installation".
After doing this 5 or 6 times, I removed DRV0 from the array, and rebuilt my RAID 5 using the remaining 5 3TB drives.
Windows 7 Ult. installed fine on the single drive (After a 2TB volume was created for what would soon be C and a 200MB partition for whatever).
I plan to install Windows Web Server 2008 R2 on this computer soon, and assume I'll have the same issue installing on a RAID 5.
Does anyone have any advise or seen this problem before?
I really want my OS, Database and Content on RAID 5 for performance, and parity.
Any feed back would be helpful.
Thank you,
RLintz
I bought 6 3TB WD drives and activated RAID 5.
I was not able to install Win7.
After loading RAID drivers, building a 2TB volume and copying files, Expanding files, etc. Windows kicked back a message "Windows was not able to prep this computer to boot. Please retry the installation".
After doing this 5 or 6 times, I removed DRV0 from the array, and rebuilt my RAID 5 using the remaining 5 3TB drives.
Windows 7 Ult. installed fine on the single drive (After a 2TB volume was created for what would soon be C and a 200MB partition for whatever).
I plan to install Windows Web Server 2008 R2 on this computer soon, and assume I'll have the same issue installing on a RAID 5.
Does anyone have any advise or seen this problem before?
I really want my OS, Database and Content on RAID 5 for performance, and parity.
Any feed back would be helpful.
Thank you,
RLintz