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    heh... good points for sure, Crazy. TBH... the only reason I have considered this config was because i don't yet trust Vista for games and other programs and I wanted to give Ubuntu a run to see how it worked. Seems like it's gonna a bigger problem that it may be worth.

    thanks for the replies, all. i'll have to think on this.

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    Depending on the age of the game, Vista works fine if you have the GPU power.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crazy Buddhist View Post
    Seriously buy a Raid card you will be a lot happier and save yourself about a week of brain damage.
    HAHA didn't even see your handle was Dane Bramage.

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    now that IS funny.

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    okay... so here's another question on this subject.

    lets say that i scrap the idea of having a raid drive for the system drive. i normally have a mirrored drive for my data drive (move "My Documents" to that drive) for back-up protection.

    Will my XP and Vista installs be able to use the same drive once i have the raid set up under each OS? In other words, can I have the "My Documents" be the same folder for each install?
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    I don't think that's possible because of how vista is structured.
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    I agree with the previous suggestion of using a USB floppy drive, but you do have to make a quick addition to the RAID driver on the diskette, or else it wont recognize the USB floppy halfway through the install. Sucks, I know.. had it happen to me, so here's the fix!

    What you need to do is open the txtsetup.oem file (with notepad) on the diskette on another computer, and add a few lines.

    Under hardwareID heading for your raid controller:

    (this is an example, yours will differ)
    [HardwareIds.scsi.iaAHCI_ICH8M]
    id= “PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2829&CC_0106”,”iaStore”

    add these lines:

    id = "USB\VID_03F0&PID_2001", "usbstor" #--HP
    id = "USB\VID_054C&PID_002C", "usbstor" #--Sony
    id = "USB\VID_057B&PID_0001", "usbstor" #--Y-E Data
    id = "USB\VID_0409&PID_0040", "usbstor" #--NEC
    id = "USB\VID_0424&PID_0FDC", "usbstor" #--SMSC
    id = "USB\VID_08BD&PID_1100", "usbstor" #--Iomega
    id = "USB\VID_055D&PID_2020", "usbstor" #--Samsung

    Save it, exit, and run the install again, selecting F6, then specifying the driver for the HDD controller from the floppy disk, and it'll go.

    As for triple booting XP/Vista/Ubuntu, I did that on my laptop, but didnt have a mirror set up. I'm sure it will work just fine, as the raid controller handles the mirroring itself.

    So there you have it.. usb floppy = win, triple boot + RAID = entirely possible.

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    whelp... here's what i did... ended up just saying screw it... and i installed Vista by itself on a mirrored RAID. I have another rig with XP on it, so if i have issues with Vista, i have a working rig to fall back on.

    now... if i could just get my SLI working... that's tonight. boy, i haven't been this in the dark since i installed Win 98 the first time.
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