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Old 12-06-2006   #1
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Well my PC has really been sucking it up lately. I decided that I知 just going to reformat my HDD and start over. The only thing that I知 worried about if finding a few drivers and partitioning my 4HDDs.

Here痴 a list of the things that I can find drivers for.
NVIDIA 6800Ultra
Creative X-Fi Platinum
PhysX Card

List of drivers I知 not sure about
Mobo drivers (I have an alienware PC with a POS alienware Mobo)
CD Drive drivers (have no what the model # or manufacturer is)
DVD/RW Drive Drivers (same as above ^)
Floppy Drive drivers (Not worried about that)
Intel Xeon 3.6GHz Drivers (not sure)
and everything else I知 going need drivers for.



Well I知 hoping that after I reformat and reinstall windows XP system update will automatically get drivers I知 missing. What do i do?

Also I have 4 74GB 10,000 RPM HDD's and right now they are split up into 2 even partitions and are in RAID. And well I知 going to probably need help with this too.


Well thx guys.
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I personally are not up on Raid arrays but our Tech Team may have answers for you.
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I dont mind a wait i still need to backup info and write down all the programs that i need to get back. But thanks for letting me know!
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Well i just thought of something. Reformatting my HDD's isnt going to delete or mess up my RAID setup will it?
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Well it turns out i have ran into a few problems. I reformatted my C and D drives and have put my RAID driver on a floppy as i was instructed by a friend. Well when i delete the C: Partition and and Recreate it then contune to format it everything works fine until it trys to install the driver it says cannot copy so i just skit it and a few other files on the floppy then it starts to copy windows components. after its done it says restarting system. Then it says to boot from CD press any key. So i wait for it to boot from the HDD or what ever and it just stays at the same screen. I restarted and checked if the HDD was in the boo. It wasen't so i contuned to add it. When i saved my settings and restarted then it just goes to a black screen with a flashing _ like there is nothing to boot? any help? at this point i hate RAID!

Note: I use RAID 0

And if your wondering how im writing this im using a KNOPPIX 5.0 boot DVD.
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I have never run a raid array... I will PM our fearless tech-team leader. He's the raid expert. It may take a bit of time.
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