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    Windows 7 RAID 5 on Win 7 - worked fine but suddenly wouldn't boot

    Hi! I've got a ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 card and a fresh install of Win 7. I've got four 1Tb disks, one with the OS-install and three disks set to RAID 5. I just set BIOS to "use SATA disks as RAID", installed Win 7 on the first disk and then used the software that comes with the motherboard (Ctrl+I...
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    Windows Vista Vista Backup

    Hi I don't know if this is the right place to post but having looked around seemed best to me. My mothers computer recently failed. She had Vista installed on a striped raid array, unfortunately one of the disks failed, and she never thought to backup any of her data. However on the disk that...
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    Windows 7 Newby Needs Help --" Bootmngr missing" message appears

    I replaced XP Pro last night (Friday, 1/29/10) with a fresh copy of Windows 7 Pro (OEM version). I installed the new Win 7 OS on a freshly reformated pair of Raid-0 hardrives. Both are WD 80GB Velociraptor's. I also have another WD 400 GB, that's was being used for storage only, it is not a...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 stops on setup desktop

    My computer works properly with windows xp 32 bit. MSI P965NEo V1.1, Intel pentium D 805 2.66mhz L2 2mb, XFX 8800GTS 320MB, HDD SATA WD 250GB JMICRON RAID, ATA PIONEER 111D, 2GB 800mhz Kingston, PSU THERMALTAKE 400w. I tried to install window 7 ultimate 64bit, but problem starts when loading...
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    Windows Vista Window 7 stops during instalation

    My computer works properly with windows xp 32 bit. MSI P965NEo V1.1, Intel pentium D 805 2.66mhz L2 2mb, XFX 8800GTS 320MB, HDD SATA WD 250GB JMICRON RAID, ATA PIONEER 111D, 2GB 800mhz Kingston, PSU THERMALTAKE 400w. I tried to install window 7 ultimate 64bit, but problem starts when loading...
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    Windows 7 Mirroring through Disk Management

    Hardware based RAID setups are usually able to get double the read speed during a RAID 1 array (or triple or whatever depending on the number of hard drives in the RAID). Windows 7's disk manager has RAID drivers built into it allowing you to setup RAID 0/1/5/10 without the need of BIOS tweaks...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Mirroring Performance

    I setup a redundancy using windows 7 for the time being until I can afford a decent RAID card. My question is whether or not I will have near double read speed by using it. I know that since only some software RAID has this ability, I bet I don't... but I have no idea how to tell. For...
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    Windows 7 Expanding Windows Files 0%... Problem installing on new PC

    This was my first PC build and everything went well except for installing Windows 7. I am clean installing Windows 7 Professional 64bit. My BIOS is able to detect all my hardware (2 harddrives, dvd rom drive, dvd burner, 4 sticks of ram 2gb each, etc.) Hard drives are in RAID1 While I am...
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    Windows 7 Can you install Win7 Upgrade on 2 seperate hd's of same computer?

    I was just trying to keep a fresh up-to-date copy of the OS ready in case my working hd crashed. Is this possible? I'm currently experimenting with this as I've already installed it on the two different drives, but the second clean install won't validate? Is this a restriction by Microsoft, is...
  10. Windows 7 Switching to Raid0 - Upgrade Disks

    Hello, I'm interested in switching to a RAID 0 setup from AHCI now that I have two drives, but I have a concern regarding the type of Windows7 disks I own -- namely they are the Upgrade version. I have successfully done a clean install from Vista -> RC1 -> Home Premium, but my understanding...
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    Windows 7 Brand new Win7, P6TD, SSD... RAID destroys everything!

    I literally just want to RAID0 2 of my 4 HDDs (one being the system SSD) I don't understand why enabling RAID in BIOS causes BSOD halfway through Win7 booting... As instructed in the mobo manual, I enabled SATA RAID, and then went Ctrl+I to the set up the array. All groovy on 2 x SpinpointF3s...
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    Windows 7 W7 installer not recognizing Blu-ray DVD drivers

    I'm sure i cant be the first with this problem, but after searching for about an hour or so im just gonna ask directly, sorry if this is a duplicate request. I'm Building a killer system for a friend of mine. Windows 7 64bit Ultimate for System Builders Asus Crosshair III Forumla 790FX...
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    Windows 7 BSOD and unable to boot

    My system is an ASUS P6T with 12 gb of memory and an EVGA 250 graphics card with 1 GB memory. System was running fine with Vista Business x 64. I upgraded to Windows 7 Pro x64 [there were several hic cups during the upgrade process, but I finally got by them]. Running RAID 1 with Intel...
  14. Windows 7 SCSI/RAID Host controller. I really need an answer

    Hi, im new on this forum. I´ve been troubleshooting all over the internet, but without any luck. Ive registered myself on www.sevenforums.com and been posting threads, with no replys but one.. So if anyone on this site could possibly help, please do so.... Instead of writing a whole new...
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    Windows 7 Win 7 Install not finding hard drive - clean install on new hardware

    Hi, I spent the afternoon putting together my new PC: Intel i5, GB P55-UD3, Seagate 500gb SATA, my optical is an IDE. All brand new virgin hardware (except the ide optical obviously). Everything went well, POST with no problems and everything is looking good in BIOS: CPU, RAM, HDD optical...
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    Windows 7 Dual Boot Xp n 7 with 7 Installed First PROBLEM

    Hi there. I have windows 7 installed on my PC. I want to install Xp on it.; After booting for xp cd, setup start up, loads the files but then a blue screen comes, saying, windows blah blah. Dont know what to do. I have searched the web but cant find something. There are some RAID problems but...