Raid drives not seen when third drive is added

I have been able to install vista ultimate 64 to a mirrored raid drive
setup.
On the bios - asus m2npv-vm (nvidia) - I have the two sata drive
connections set as raid enabled.
I have the other two sata drive connections set as raid NOT enabled.

so...

I have vista running on the raid drives. mirrored.
I add a second hard drive...single drive, not raided, into the drive
connector slot.
instantly, upon restart the new drive, not raided, is set to C: and the
mirrored drive set is set to D: or something else. This cripples my
vista, as it looks to C: for the boot partition (or something like that)

What am I missing? How can I get the mirrored raid to be my C: drive
and remain this way!!!! even upon adding new non raided, single drives?


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llitten

Is your mirrored raid drive set Active?
What letter is assigned to it?

"llitten" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> I have been able to install vista ultimate 64 to a mirrored raid drive
> setup.
> On the bios - asus m2npv-vm (nvidia) - I have the two sata drive
> connections set as raid enabled.
> I have the other two sata drive connections set as raid NOT enabled.
>
> so...
>
> I have vista running on the raid drives. mirrored.
> I add a second hard drive...single drive, not raided, into the drive
> connector slot.
> instantly, upon restart the new drive, not raided, is set to C: and the
> mirrored drive set is set to D: or something else. This cripples my
> vista, as it looks to C: for the boot partition (or something like that)
>
> What am I missing? How can I get the mirrored raid to be my C: drive
> and remain this way!!!! even upon adding new non raided, single drives?
>
>
> --
> llitten

I am confused by "set Active"?

I am currently running off of just the mirrored drive set.

currently Vista sets the label at C: of the mirrored drive set.

if I add in another drive (set in the bios to NOT be a raid...thus
making this the third drive in my computer)... then vista recognizes the
new drive as C: and reassigns the mirrored drive set to D: or something
else.

thus making my system unbootable.


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llitten

Open Disk Management, in Vista, and see what it reports for your mirrored
set

"llitten" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> I am confused by "set Active"?
>
> I am currently running off of just the mirrored drive set.
>
> currently Vista sets the label at C: of the mirrored drive set.
>
> if I add in another drive (set in the bios to NOT be a raid...thus
> making this the third drive in my computer)... then vista recognizes the
> new drive as C: and reassigns the mirrored drive set to D: or something
> else.
>
> thus making my system unbootable.
>
>
> --
> llitten

crap...sorry,

It was a healthy raid..

now I see two individual drives..

crap...what is going on?


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llitten

sorry, not in the mood to lose any information ... again.... and have to
reinstall it all.


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llitten

ok, rebuilding my raid. looking in vista, under computer, I see that it
is set at drive label C:


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llitten