I have A dell 9100 and in the BIOS I want to change the operation of the Sata Disks from the default to Raid autodetect&#92;ATA. I tried it and got a warning that doing so might cause the disk not to boot and require a reinstall. Can I do this without worrying about a disk crash?
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Your Disk won't crash, go ahead and switch it. I was working on a Dell the other day and was playing with those settings. It should not do damage to your hard drives at all.\n\nYou can always go back in to bios if you want to change it.
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Go into the bios setting and change the boot sequence. It may be set to floppy. You can get into the bios by watching the screen on boot up. A message will appear that will tell you what key to press....usually the delete key. Once in the bios find the boot sequence. Change it to boot from cd or boot from drive 0. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE! Once this is done, save and exit. reboot
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Ok, what you wanna do is restart your computer, then when the Dell logo appears press F2 repeatedly. You'll enter BIOS, and from then you will see how to set the boot sequence.
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In control panel -> power options there is an option to turn of hard disks after a certain amount of idle time. However, I'm not sure if this treats each disk individually or if it will only turn off all disks at once.
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You could return it but if that not an option you can buy a PCI SATA adapter at \n\nhttp://www.nextag.com/Siig-Serial-ATA-SATA--zz55392280zB2z2--COMPARE-PRICES-html\n\nfor about $46.00
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Get the 500gb (7200rpm) serial ata hard drive with 8mb databurst cache.\n\nRAID 0 means that two or more hard drives have been combined and made to appear like 1 hard drive.  The problem is that if a hard drive has a 1 in 100 chance of failing, then a RAID 0 with 2 drives has a 1 in 50 chance of failing.  With a RAID 0, if any drive in fails that's part of the RAID 0, then you lose EVERYTHING on BOTH drives.\n\nRAID 0's are faster than single drives, but if this is an external drive using USB 2, then the limitation is the USB connection and a RAID 0 isn't going to be of much help.\n--------------------------------------------\nSo far, few people understand RAID 0.  RAID 1 is a mirror where the data is stored simultaneously on two hard drives so in case 1 fails, you have a backup.  RAID 0 is NOT a mirror - it's not TECHNICALLY a RAID (RAID stands for "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks).  There is NO redundancy in a RAID 0, which is why people who understand RAID understand why RAID 0 is NOT a true RAID - again, if either drive fails, you lose ALL your data on both drives.  \n\nThink of it like this: a RAID 0 is like having two books, book 1 has all the odd pages, book 2 has all the even pages.  If you lose either book, you no longer have a coherent story.  That's how RAID works - each drive gets one "page" of information... if one drive fails (one book is lost) then your files are corrupt and cannot be recovered.
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your problem is called "The ATA Interface Limit (128 GiB / 137 GB) Barrier". you can resolve that problem with downloading and executing a software tool available on the homepage of the hard disk manufacturer. for example for the Maxtor hard disks the tool is called MaxBlast4 (it can break open this 137GB barrier of the OS).
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No.  The software on the recovery disc is OEM licensed.  Putting it on a different computer is a violation of that license.\n\nI liked the suggestion you obtain a replacement recovery disc from Dell.  Seems like the easiest safest thing.
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Remove it from Bios and try, not so sure it'll work, cos drive B is reserved for secondary Floppy Disk Drive.\n\nGood Luck :)
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The two most common RAID Arrays are RAID 0 (Data Stripping) and RAID 1 (Data Mirroring). Most modern motherboards can perform RAID 0 or RAID 1 (e.g., the nForce4 chipset has it build in, other my have a Silicon Image RAID controller). \n\nRAID 0 is making your PC think that the two harddrives are just one drive. The advantage is that both drives can be working simultaneously to read/write data, effectively doubling your read/write speed (but not your overall access speed). The down side of RAID 0 is that is one of the harddrive fail, you'll lost all data on the combined drives (no redundancy). I think RAID 0 is the only type of RAID array you don't need identical HDD's for, but I could be wrong.\n\nRAID 1 is making one harddrive mirror the other (in which you do need identical harddrives). Everything written to one hardrive is written to the other. If one harddrive fails, all your data is still functional on the other one. There is a decrease in performance because all read/writes have to be performed twice.\n\nStorageReview (http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200406/20040625TCQ_sp.html)has a good article talking about the benefits (or lack thereof) of RAID 0 for gaming systems.\n\nThere are many other types of RAID arrays (RAID 1+0, RAID 5, etc.). Webopedia (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html) has a decent definition of what they all are. The other Levels of RAID usually require a special controller card which can cost MUCHO $$$'s.
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Sure, I run 3 SATA drives and 2 PATA drives, no problemo. Needless to say, your motherboard must have a SATA port on it or you need to buy some sort of controller.
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Configure your bios to boot from the CD.  Win98 will boot from the CD so you don't really need a boot disk.  You also have the option of making another Win98 boot disk from another win98 machine and using that.
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If the hard drive supports SATA, then that is by far the best interface to use.  It is faster than IDE.\n\nRAID is not an interface type, it is a type of configuration that can make data storage more reliable by duplicating data on the hard drive or adding error correction information.  Unless you are using this drive for business purposes, you probably don't need to worry about RAID.
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Good answers.  Also, using IDE or SATA Raid cards supporting Raid 5, you could take 4 500GB drives and create a fault tolerant 1.5 TertaByte (1500GB) volume.\n\nI remember my FIRST hard drive was in an AT&T 8086 machine, and it was 5 MB - five million bytes...  have we come a long ways or not...
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Yes 1st before you start your PC INSERT YOUR XP DISK IN DRIVE. If your PC start from CD then you be fine just follow the INSTRUCTION but if your PC do not start from CD then you have to tell your BIOS 1st BOOT Device is CDROM.\n\nTo do this start your PC and start pressing the DEL key on your Keyboard. This will help you to ENTER BIOS SETTINGS. Look for 1st BOOT DEVICE it could be FLOPPY OR HDD AND LAST WILL BE CDROM.\n\nNow here if you have FLOPPY CHANGE THAT TO CDROM AND SAVE AND EXIT BIOS.\n\nIF YOU HAVE HDD THEN CHANGE THAT TO CDROM AND SAVE AND EXIT\n\nTHIS SHOULD START YOUR CDROM AS 1ST BOOT DEVICE.
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Without two drives available on the controller RAID will be unusable to you.\n\nGenerally what you need to do is go into you BIOS (usually hit DEL or F2 or F10 depending on the system) and hunt down the SATA controller options, generally under either Advanced Configuration or Integrated Peripherals. At any rate usually on these RAID controllers you have the option of either setting it to RAID or IDE. Since you only have one drive you'll want IDE, what this will do is make Windows installation think that the drive is IDE and you shouldn't have to install drivers at the setup screen and should be able to just run with it.\n\nHope that helps.
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SATA (Serial ATA) is a newer technology that uses serial transfers instead of Parallel transfers, which IDE used. It allows for smaller cables and advanced features like hotplug, which, on supported hardware, will let you plug and unplug your drives without shutting down the computer. The cost difference between the drives is minimal, if your motherboard already has a SATA port on it (most all new ones do) I'd advise for you to go for one with the connector. Keep in mind that if you have an older power supply, you may need a SATA power adaptor, as the power connectors on the drives are also different from IDE drives.