Windows Vista Home Premium and P5B Deluxe and Raid

Currently have Win XP Professional running using a P5B Deluxe MB. I have
two Raid 0 Arrays set up using two SATA drives in each Array. Everything
works just fine. Why I want to upgrade to Vista is a good question but some
things you just have to do. I do have clean install of Vista Premium
running on another system using a plain old SATA drive and it works as
advertised. Anyway, has anyone installed Vista Home Premium over Win XP
Professional. I have Googled the thought and it seems like I have to do a
clean install or go buy the Vista Ultimate version. Assuming I must do a
clean install what issues will I run into with the harddrives set up as Raid
Arrays? I have seen the Intel instructions
http://www.intel.com/support/chipset.../CS-025783.htm and it looks
like I have to pull some files off the Vista setup cd so that it can install
on the Raid drives? Am I correct or am I missing something? All thoughts
and experiences would be appreciated before I start down the path.

I would HIGHLY recommend that you consider waiting until January for your
change over, when Vista SP 1 will be available.

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DaveW

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"Ken" <> wrote in message
news:. ..
> Currently have Win XP Professional running using a P5B Deluxe MB. I have
> two Raid 0 Arrays set up using two SATA drives in each Array. Everything
> works just fine. Why I want to upgrade to Vista is a good question but
> some things you just have to do. I do have clean install of Vista Premium
> running on another system using a plain old SATA drive and it works as
> advertised. Anyway, has anyone installed Vista Home Premium over Win XP
> Professional. I have Googled the thought and it seems like I have to do a
> clean install or go buy the Vista Ultimate version. Assuming I must do a
> clean install what issues will I run into with the harddrives set up as
> Raid Arrays? I have seen the Intel instructions
> http://www.intel.com/support/chipset.../CS-025783.htm and it looks
> like I have to pull some files off the Vista setup cd so that it can
> install on the Raid drives? Am I correct or am I missing something? All
> thoughts and experiences would be appreciated before I start down the
> path.
>

Ken wrote:

> Currently have Win XP Professional running using a P5B Deluxe MB. I have
> two Raid 0 Arrays set up using two SATA drives in each Array. Everything
> works just fine. Why I want to upgrade to Vista is a good question but some
> things you just have to do. I do have clean install of Vista Premium
> running on another system using a plain old SATA drive and it works as
> advertised. Anyway, has anyone installed Vista Home Premium over Win XP
> Professional. I have Googled the thought and it seems like I have to do a
> clean install or go buy the Vista Ultimate version. Assuming I must do a
> clean install what issues will I run into with the harddrives set up as Raid
> Arrays? I have seen the Intel instructions
> http://www.intel.com/support/chipset.../CS-025783.htm and it looks
> like I have to pull some files off the Vista setup cd so that it can install
> on the Raid drives? Am I correct or am I missing something? All thoughts
> and experiences would be appreciated before I start down the path.
>
>

Replacing a fairly-stable OS with a Beta-test OS? Great idea.

In the 4 months I've been running Vista (it was pre-installed on a laptop),
I've only found one useful feature -- variable-sized thumbnails. And that
nicety is not nearly enough to make up for the frequent crashes, or for the
3rd-party apps that don't yet work under Vista.

Wait 'til next year.
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Cheers, Bob