EggXpert

I can't tell from your original post, but I assume you are using the onboard RAID option with the ICH9R southbridge. Write performance on RAID 5 without significant onboard (or onchip) RAM is very slow--I would certainly NOT recommend it.  If you can, get another drive and make it RAID 1+0 (much faster). Alternatively, there are add-on RAID ...

I currently have XP pro installed on a RAID-0 set up using a 680i-SLI. I have already created a partition for the new OS. I would like to install Vista on this partition and have a dual boot set-up. Has anyone done this? If so, is there anything I need to do before I install Vista? I slipstreamed my original install of XP Pro with the RAID ...