On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 11:17 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Drew wrote on 07/21/2011 11:09 AM: > >> From the sounds of it it's fake raid. M$ doesn't leave any signatures > > on their raid system that linux will detect. dm/md raid can see > > fakeraid signatures in newer versions so the installer may be picking > > up on that. > > So, erasing the RAID signatures with "dd" in addition to changing the > BIOS setting, is indicated. > > Phil Used a CentOS 6 Live DVD to boot. Then discovered that under Applications>System>Disk Utilities one can manage disks to include busting up old raid devices and partitions. Whatever raid metadata was written by WinXP-64 was destroyed and I was able to do a proper install of CentOS 6. Thanks go to the upstream developers for enhancing the disk utilities. DaveM