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Am I better off getting a RAID card and then setting up the mobo's bios to normal ( AHCI). Will that circumnavigate the problem or will windows see the exact same problem as described at the top of the page...Otherwise, like you mentioned, I'll have to find the 3rd party Image maker Acronis to...

hmmm ok

basically: install Win 7 usual way > run the MS fix-it > make an image of the OS > set SaTA to RAID > run the Windows recovery / repair disk load image at the prompt window when it asks you where is the image or partition or disk etc.. Point it to the image file ( USB flash drive I assume?)

so when I go back and after I set SATA to RAID and create the volumes, How to restore or put an image on the drives if I don't have any OS on the drives? Do I use Windows Repair tool to do that?

that is the problem...during the install, I will try to load Raid drivers that Windows ask for. A few drivers Windows accept but fail to work. In the same manner - at the early stage of Windows install, I tried a variety of Raid drivers but none allow windows to complete the install. BTW...

Anyone having a problem installing Windows 7 Home Premium x64 with the Bios set to Raid and the Raid1 volume created in the following Bios? When I try to install Windows 7 HomePre. Windows sees the single drive but warns me it wont boot due to hardware incompatibility... 97% gets installed but...

it would be all the matter of traffic control....I would rather have all the PC's share each others files via a switch rather than go all the way up into a router ( even though the data is treated as though it were going through a switch). More so for downstairs because if the lower floor share...

so if any of the pcs directly connected to it ( the router )need to share a file amongst each other.... since it goes in and out of the 4 ports, there is no extensive packet disassembly? meaning it'll treat the data as though it where a switch ? a quick in and out?

yeah a hub is a 'collision domain' All pcs send their broadcast at once hence collision domain but a switch learns. it writes all the MAC's on table so as you say, the next time it needs to communicate, the switch looks up the MAC table ( not an ip table since no dhcp related)

yeah i heard in essence a router is a combo switch with a DHCP server kinda thing.. but a router is a packet domain network? whereas, a switch is a broadcast domain? if there is a router hooked up - upstream, do ALL broadcast stop? would that mean, even if 2 pcs want to share a file, does it...

hmmmm ok

perfect! that's exact what i had in mind... off the record... is the topology usually better to have 'network traffic' flow through a switch rather than cramming it all in a router? I mean, doesn't the router have to do a thorough unpacking repacking the data packets -which is kinda overkill for...

i have an 8 port /1000 on the lower floor and a 24 port on the upper floor...itll be a lot of wiring to get all the lower devices on the upstairs switch.. i think it makes more sense to have all the lower pc's on the lower switch with 1 LAN wire going to the upstairs switch or router I think i...

on your 2nd answer, even though the 2 pc's have ip address given by the upstream router, the 2 pc's wont go all the way up to the router for exchanging each others files / data?

even though the upstream router issues ip addresses, does local traffic have to go through the router ( i would think that would be slow if it did, unpacking at 100 mbps instead of frames at 1000 mbps through the switch)