over the weekend I tried to install the hard drive of my old computer into my present one and could not get it to work, intially it gets recognized and installed by windows but the reported capacity is higher than it should be and disk manager can't seem to finish the setup process, if I reboot my computer it can no longer detect the main hard drive and won't boot I think may have a bit do with the main HD being RAID and old being IDE as I had my cousin test on his comp(only IDE) and it works. I tried searching the net but I am unsure of how to properly phrase the search, so I haven't found anything useful.
so here goes is there anything extra that we would need to do to get both drives to play nice? …if that is the problem.
thanks in advance
How can you have a single HD as RAID?? Or do you mean SATA?
Try changing the master/slave/cableselect mode of your IDE drive (the little jumper on the HD).
Technically you can have a single hardrive "RAID" if you have hardware RAID capabilities. I've got a server that has hardware RAID support for IDE drives and though it seems quite dumb, it made me configure a RAID for the single drive before it would let me use it. However, I doubt that's really the issue here. I'd expect he probably does mean SATA or SCSI.
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks.
Array of Independent Disks.
I know what it stands for, tell that to my Intel server. 
I dont pretend to be a computer expert but you'll be amazed at how well I handle my self with the little I know:lol:
that's how the device manager lists it, was trying to keep it short
Promise 1+0 Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk device
llama said:
Try changing the master/slave/cableselect mode of your IDE drive (the little jumper on the HD).
we tried that didn't seem to work because when I rebooted the main drive did its disappearing act again :?
Okay, you might try making changes in your BIOS to tell it whether it should look to SCSI or IDE for first boot device. That should get you on your way. If it's an add-on controller card then it should have its own BIOS screen that pops-up after POST.
A quick search on Google (groups) for "Promise 1+0 Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk device" and you'll see there's more people that have weird problems related to this controller. Try updating the driver.
darkfrog said:
I know what it stands for, tell that to my Intel server.
I'll have try again this weekend and update the driver thanks