Booting to the RAID drive

[ai42]

Howdy, I need some help with my MSI K7T Turbo Board

Howdy guys. I have an insane amount of hard drives in my system. I have 2 30 gigers on a RAID 0 array from the onboard RAID controller. Then I just pulled a 80 gig hard drive out of a system I am selling and I put it on the primary IDE controllers. Anyway that 80 gig has Win2k on it, and I want to preserve the files, but I do not want to run the OS. So I would like to be able to directly boot to my WinXP (RAID) drive. However my BIOS just won't do it. I tried HDD-0 to 3 and SCSI with Promise as the first boot. The BIOS always seams to boot to the 80gig drive because it on a primary channel. How do I directly boot to the RAID drive? Is there are bios update that will handle it? (I currently have 3.1).

 

[keyed]

Check your BIOS BOOT FIRST setting to see if it has a RAID-0 option.

That's how I got mine to work on my KK266-R.

Hope this helped.

 

[FragPuppet]

in the bios boot menu use the +/- key to move the onboard controller ahead of the IDE drive and that should work.
if you have no os installed on the raid drives it might give you a boot disk error or even skip by it booting the win2k os not sure though