Diamond Max 81 GB Hard drive and KT7A-RAID

[Guest]

I have a KT7A-RAID MBoard and a DiamondMax 81GB Drive and want to know if I can see the whole 81GB without using the MaxBlast software? Is this possible as this does cause limitaions when trying to load sofware on a bootable CD-ROM eg: Win2k. Any suggestions? Has anybody else got this right?

 

[blah]

It is very interesting, how can you load software "on a bootable CD-ROM eg. Win2k". Can you be little more specific?

Post, we'll do the "search"...

 

[peteb]

I'll try and interpret your question.

You have an 80GB Maxtor Hardrive.

You have a bootable win2k CD.

You'd like the two to work in harmony to provide you with a working PC?

Right - bootable 2k will identify any available space on connected disk supported by bios and offer to install as an option, partitioned, formatted or not.

I WOULD NOT recomment using an 80GB partition to install windows 2k (or anything) onto. Create a maximum 8GB partition and mark it active. The 2k setup should allow you to do this. If you miss it - don't press on and install, restart again. an 80GB boot partiton is something you'll really regret later on.

I recommend creating/using a Win98 boot disk for this pupose. Boot 98 to command line, FDISK yourself an 8GB primary partition on your HDD and install to that. At install convert the partition to NTFS (not after install). NTFS is much more effecient for Win Pagefiles.

As a further option, for times of recovery, create a FAT32 partition of 1.5 GB (you have an 80GB drive - you can probably spare it) and copy all 2k, essential drivers and service packs to it. When you have to reinstall, you can install to this partition, you have the files on local disk = much faster, and you can boot to another partition, recover your C drive files that you'll need, the reformat C, mark active and reinstall. No data loss and probably still as quick as installing off bootable CD...

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