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finally got it.

Was able to build a bartpe boot disk using correct intel matrix drivers (manf supplied ones - dell) and also included rdrive in the build using the bartpe inf thats in the install dir.

must have been the raid drivers that was stopping it before.

I mean you can create a USB HD startup disk with Windows XP. I don't know why you couldn't do that. I did that several times.

What method did you use? A standard installation to removable media failes without doubt after initial file copy to the removable device (HAL error).

going further I ...

I would recommend you to create a startup USB hard drive and start your system from it.

Sounds simple enough but how will that version of startup offer support for intel matrix raid that the startup CD dosent? is there a way to add raid drivers?


ps.Im assuming when you say startup usb hard ...

I took a image of my raid 0 (intel matrix on dell xps m1730 laptop - 2x200gb) 400gb drive.

As this is my system drive I cannot restore from within vista. However the starup cd dosent allow me to restore the image as it dosent appear to reconise my raid array. instead of listing the 400gb raid as a ...