NiroTToriN
10-23-2002, 11:53 PM
Just got some new hard drives and put em in a RAID config. Set up the array etc...
I started to install XP and after installing the requisite drivers for the RAID, XP asked what partition to put itself onto. I specified the partition and then it asked me how it wanted me to format. I said NTFS (not the quick NTFS) and it starts copying files.
ONLY to stop part-way through the file copy. It's like the computer froze. SOO, after waiting 15 minutes for it to install a single .dll file, I rebooted, reformatted the partition tried installing it again. Same thing happened; the file copying froze part-way through.
Now, each time I've done it stops at a different place in the file copy. So, finally, I decided just to drop the partition to 10gb and format it in FAT32. I formatted the rest the 160gb im NTFS for files etc. and everything worked just like it's supposed to. On the first try...
HOWEVER, I want to know why there is the seeming NTFS incompatability. Is this a common problem that I've never heard of? Also be nice to have XP on an NTFS partition.
Thoughts, questions, advice and any other comments and resources are welcome!
By the way, the system I'm referring to is the AMD/MSI KT3 Ultra ARU comp.
I started to install XP and after installing the requisite drivers for the RAID, XP asked what partition to put itself onto. I specified the partition and then it asked me how it wanted me to format. I said NTFS (not the quick NTFS) and it starts copying files.
ONLY to stop part-way through the file copy. It's like the computer froze. SOO, after waiting 15 minutes for it to install a single .dll file, I rebooted, reformatted the partition tried installing it again. Same thing happened; the file copying froze part-way through.
Now, each time I've done it stops at a different place in the file copy. So, finally, I decided just to drop the partition to 10gb and format it in FAT32. I formatted the rest the 160gb im NTFS for files etc. and everything worked just like it's supposed to. On the first try...
HOWEVER, I want to know why there is the seeming NTFS incompatability. Is this a common problem that I've never heard of? Also be nice to have XP on an NTFS partition.
Thoughts, questions, advice and any other comments and resources are welcome!
By the way, the system I'm referring to is the AMD/MSI KT3 Ultra ARU comp.