W7 not installing on RAID0

Hi there all,

Still not able to entice W7 to install on may RAID0. Previously broke in on the thread below which has details, [not sure how you reference previous threads in this forum so I just copied and pasted]

Help, installation not recognizing harddrives

Just trying to isolate a reason why W7 might not be recognising the RAID0 even though it appears to be fine as far as the BIOS is concerned.

Allow me what might appear to be a couple of very basic questions;

1. If the hard drives that comprise the RAID0 pair were formatted on an XP machine prior to being used in this RAID set would it make any difference?
2. Are there any formatting or drive preparation, prior use configurations that might make the drives invisible to the W7 installation process? [Such as one of the drives having a Vista OS installed in a previous life]
3. Is there anyway to bypass the "please load a driver feature' that appears after initiating install on the W7 install?

I'll be away for a couple of days so will not be able to read/reply but would appreciate your thoughts and suggestions.

Hi.

You have to have the SATA RAID driver ready to install along with Windows. It should be on a floppy, usb stick, cd, dvd, or hard drive not attached to the SATA ports.

When installing Windows, it asks if you need to install any 3rd party drivers and to hit a key on the keyboard if so. This is what you want to do to load the RAID driver.

You can obtain the proper driver from the motherboard manufacturer.

When you get to this screen, here is where you install your RAID drivers.



See where the red arrow is pointing? Click that and follow the prompts.

Rikki27 wrote

No, you have to load the drivers or it just wont work

Thanks for the reply information,

I think that Nibiru2012 has provided the point that I can't reach. I get to the point where the install requests the driver however it doesn't see the RAID0 set. I have never reached the screen indicated that asks where W7 is to be installed.

Any other suggestions?

Hi Rikki27, your on Windows 7 64-bit ... correct ? and are you using unsigned drivers ?

Veedaz,

Windows version is 32 bit OEM Windows 7 Pro. I have tried drivers off MB disc and downloaded drivers from Gigabyte and Intel site also.

I have attempted to load drivers direct from the MB disc, floppy and also USB. I have even sought assistance from the Gigabyte technical assistance and have followed their advice to the letter however same result.

Rikki27

As your on 32-bit have you tried Vista drivers from Gigabyte, also try XP, I have known this to work in the past.

Veedaz,

Just to check that the driver to be loaded for the P55 chip for SATA connectors 2_0 and 2_1 per MB manual is Intel(r) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO/PCH SATA RAID CONTROLLER (A:/iaStor.inf). At least this is what the W7 install says is compatible with the system. Following the attempted loading of drivers the following message is given..........."No new devices could be found. Make sure the driver files are correct and located on the driver installation media."

I understand that this is not an ACHI installation. I also note that in the flash screen information during boot for the RAID installation it clearly says that "ACHI Bios is not installed".

Also in the BIOS under HARD DISK Boot Priority, it has the RAID0 set list as "1. SCSI-0 : Intel OS RAID0 W7" [OS RAID0 W7 being what I called the RAID set].

I think the only thing you have not tried is a different Windows 7 disk, is this possible ?