Now you can blow away the 2 TB RAID array temp drive (on 4 TB drives), unplug them and install your REAL Windows 7 on your 4 TB array.
Define your RAID arrays in Windows 7 with 4 TB drives to use the full 4 TB.On my computer, it takes about 3 days for the backup and 3 days for the restore from my removable 5 TB USB drive! Plan on 7 days total! Your only recourse is to backup up one of the JBOD drives, Blow them both away and define them as a 4 TB mirror set again and then restore the data. If you fail to do this and, for instance, one of the RAID drives has a connector come loose, the RAID controller will redefine your mirror set as 2 single JBOD drives that you can't do anything with, for instance, you can't play the game of erasing just one of the drives and then upgrading to a MIrror. In RAIDXpert, set both RAID arrays to NOT AUTOMATICALLY REBUILD! This is important.Install Windows 7 on a drive (any drive but not your only 4 TB drives to be used as a Mirror Set as this will be a temp install).(Not sure if the Promise RAID will either but I am thinking that I remember it would not). There is a caveat! The BIOS ATI RAID will not let you define a Mirror Set > 2 TB. If you don't do this, you cannot access the AMD RAID controller with WEBPAM! (Update: It turns out tthat WEBPAM has reduced functionality so I use AMD RAIDXPERT).Ĩ. After installation, upgrade to the most recent Windows 7 drivers. 29 software will be able to control both the AMD RAID and the Promise RAID controllers from Windows 7. This will install the AMD Promise Drivers for the AMD RAID so that the Promise WEBPAM. Install the AMD Chipset drivers from the MSI Drivers Disk. After Windows 7 is installed, enable the additional Promise RAID controller and then install the drivers in Windows 7.
INSTALLING DEXIS PLATINUM HARDWARE 64 BIT
Once you get Windows Installer to progress to the point that it wants RAID drivers, it borks on the 64 bit drivers because they are not signed properly so, instead, load the 32 bit unsigned drivers and then upgrade to the 64 bit drivers once Windows 7 install is completed for maximum performance.Ħ. The IDE DVD ONLY exists for Windows 7 install or repair.ĥ. Windows Installer hangs if there is a SATA DVD/CD Drive enabled on the AMD RAID controller so use an IDE DVD/CD drive for the Windows 7 install. Windows Installer hangs if the additional Promise RAID controller is enabled in the BIOS.ģ.
The MSI BIOS is confused by an empty (defined RAID array) without any partitions and doesn't correctly load at post unless it is the ONLY RAID array defined to the AMD RAID controller.Ģ. I've been struggling to load my K9A2 Platinum computers with Windows 7 or Windows 2008 Server (now running Windows XP 圆4 or Windows 2003 Server) with RAID enabled on the HD (RAID 1 to be specific).