Help! Struggling with Vista Beta installation (SATA/RAID)

> Can you turn of the RAID setting in your BIOS?
>
> ProDelgado wrote:

> > I'm trying to install Vista, and it's driving me mad! My PC came with 2
> > 250Gb SATA drives, set in RAID0 as two partitions, one small one of around
> > 30Gb, and the other partition being the remainder.
> >
> > As my machine has been playing up recently, I thought it might be wise just
> > to flatten it and start again, so I'm trying to put a clean installation of
> > Vista on, and just wipe the two hard drives. I don't want to have them set
> > up in a RAID format, as it would just cause more trouble if one of them
> > failed. The Vista upgrade advisor says that there's an item that won't work
> > (Intel(R) 82801FR SATA RAID Controller), and when i try to boot from the DVD
> > to install Vista, it won't see either hard drive. I'm assuming this is due
> > to the SATA Raid controller not being found, but I don't know how to change
> > this. I read that if I put the drivers onto a floppy, then I should be able
> > to load those, but it's the same problem, even with a floppy disc in Windows
> > doesn't let me browse to the disc.
> >
> > Any suggestions? This is driving me mad!

>

> Unfortunately it's not giving me the option in the BIOS.
>
> Bah!
>
> "LaRoux" wrote:
>

>> Can you turn of the RAID setting in your BIOS?
>>
>> ProDelgado wrote:

>> > I'm trying to install Vista, and it's driving me mad! My PC came with
>> > 2
>> > 250Gb SATA drives, set in RAID0 as two partitions, one small one of
>> > around
>> > 30Gb, and the other partition being the remainder.
>> >
>> > As my machine has been playing up recently, I thought it might be wise
>> > just
>> > to flatten it and start again, so I'm trying to put a clean
>> > installation of
>> > Vista on, and just wipe the two hard drives. I don't want to have them
>> > set
>> > up in a RAID format, as it would just cause more trouble if one of them
>> > failed. The Vista upgrade advisor says that there's an item that won't
>> > work
>> > (Intel(R) 82801FR SATA RAID Controller), and when i try to boot from
>> > the DVD
>> > to install Vista, it won't see either hard drive. I'm assuming this is
>> > due
>> > to the SATA Raid controller not being found, but I don't know how to
>> > change
>> > this. I read that if I put the drivers onto a floppy, then I should be
>> > able
>> > to load those, but it's the same problem, even with a floppy disc in
>> > Windows
>> > doesn't let me browse to the disc.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions? This is driving me mad!

>>

> Unplug (the power connector would suffice) one of the Sata HDDs - check,
> pending your mobo/HDDs configuration, in BIOS you have a Master Driver;
> normally, SATA should not need pins to set them as Master/Slaves.
> Also, check in BIOS that the drive is Boot-able - depends on your BIOS/OEM.
> Michael
>

> Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> My boss also advised taking out the lead of one of the HDs, but this
> hasn't
> helped, Vista still sees the drives as having a capacity of 465Gb (not
> 250Gb). The Vista installation seems to get part way through, completes
> the
> first section (loading files) and then gets part way through expanding
> those
> files before crashing into a BSOD.
>
> (I should note, it's finally accepting the Intel driver from floppy disc,
> just a shame we're not really getting any further)
>
> "Michael" wrote:
>

>> Unplug (the power connector would suffice) one of the Sata HDDs - check,
>> pending your mobo/HDDs configuration, in BIOS you have a Master Driver;
>> normally, SATA should not need pins to set them as Master/Slaves.
>> Also, check in BIOS that the drive is Boot-able - depends on your
>> BIOS/OEM.
>> Michael
>>

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