Installation says it can't find suitable drives to install to?!

[Guest]

I've tried installing pre-rc1 and RC1, and both have the same bug.
Beta1 didn't work either, same error, but for some reason Beta 2 would
install.

The brand new RC1 drivers from Nvidia does not work, vista never even
appears to attempt to load the raid system. I'm loading the drivers from a
sd-card.

When the raid is active, I can't see ANY drives in the list.

If I split the raid, and restore both raided drives to standard IDE, the
installer will find ONE 36gb raptor drive, and my 320gb drive.

When I click next with either drive highlighted, it will tell me windows did
not find a suitable drive. No further error message.

The Raptor was formatted etc, and I attempted to delete partition etc, no
luck.

At least give me an error fcol ><

It's pretty embarassing that they're this close to release, and they can't
even give me a proper error message.

 

[Guest]

Oops, sorry for triple post but I got an error telling me the message was NOT
sent...

 

[Guest]

Your have several problems, but the major one is the wrong drivers for your
RAID array. Sorry, but MS and its OS's probably cannot be given the blame.

Specific advice is not possible without (1) what form of RAID (2) make,
model and version of its controller (3) etc.

These driver(s) must be loaded at the page early in the installation that
asks for 'load drivers'. Some of the early beta could be 'run over' and load
the program, but not the later ones. Good luck. You have some reading to
do.

 

[Guest]

I doubt the drivers to be wrong, they're unified from Nvidia, I stated that I
have an Nforce chipset, and that's what I'm raiding with. It's a simple 2
drive stripe.

It's an Nforce4 chipset, specifically the one that's on the ASUS A8N32-SLi
motherboard.

I unpacked the driver exe from nvidia, so as to expose the folders and
drivers.

This is the URL to the driver I have downloaded, and it states that it's for
RC1.
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_nforce_vista_x86_rc1.html

Anyhow,
When I come to the installation page, I choose to add drivers, I look up the
folder and it will find three matching drivers, where two are the same and I
highlight the drivers that are needed.

It scans a little bit, and I see the window where I'm supposed to highlight
a drive to install to. But it's empty.

However,
Without the raid enabled, it will incorrectly detect my three harddrives.
It will display one of the raptors, and my 320gb Western Digital, but not my
second raptor. Although all three are connected to the same chipset, and Raid
is fully disabled.

Why it refuses to install on my 320gb drive is beyond me though. And it's
practically impossible to figure out what's wrong, since I don't get an error
message of any kind.

 

[Guest]

Unfortunatly, it seems the drivers you got from NVIDIA are not correct for
RC-1. Try finding the XP drivers for the chipset, put them on a floppy disk
and see if they work. If so, then send a support request to Nvidia
explaining the problem so they can fix the drivers before release
I was unable to install any of the previous builds due to them not allowing
the installation of XP drivers during install.

Glenn

 

[Guest]

Shinobi,

I see in your post you are trying to install drivers from an SD card. I have
a 13-in-1 USB Reader in my system. Vista gives me the same error unless I
unplug the 13-in-1 reader, install the system, then plug the reader back in,
all is ok from there.

I still have not found a RAID driver for my Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 motherboard.
I have to set the driver type in the BIOS to IDE.

I hope this helps.

 

[Guest]

Doh, yeah the card reader shows up as "REPLACE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE" in the
vista compatibility list.. Although that won't happen, I'm going to attempt
to write the drivers to a CD-RW instead, I don't have a floppy.

 

[Guest]

Well, did another trial run, nothing plugged in but mouse and keyboard..
It still wouldn't find either of my drives, it found drivers it said was
suitable for the mobo on my cd-rw, but it wouldn't detect anything anyway.
And my 320gb drive didnt show up either, although it's not on the same
chipset.

It only shows up with raid disabled on the nforce chip, wich it's not
connected to...