Loading SATA RAID Drivers on BOOT?

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Guest

I cannot find where to specify drivers for my Nvidia SATA RAID Controller
when booting from my Windows Vista Beta 2 x64 DVD.

Where can I specify these drivers when booting form the disc? The drives are
already formatted (NTFS) and the array is set.
 
M

Mark W Scheidell

When Vista presents the drives\partions available to load the OS to this is
when you can insert the RAID drivers. It's been awhile so I don't remember
exactly the procedure. Possible just the refresh selections.
 
G

Guest

It never gets to that point. All I get is the error that it cannot read my
drive information (or something like that, I can't remember specificly).
 
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Ken Blake, MVP

John said:
It never gets to that point. All I get is the error that it cannot
read my drive information (or something like that, I can't remember
specificly).
Click to expand...


You may be having the problem I've been having (although I've been trying to
install the 32-bit version). I boot from the DVD and I get to the Screen
with "Install Windows" in the Title bar. In the middle of the screen it says
Windows Vista

Install now

And on the bottom there are two choices:

What to know bewfore installing Windows

System recovery options.

As soon as I click Install now, I get the message "Setup could not get
information about the disks on your computer."

May I ask what motherboard you have?
 
G

Guest

That is exactly what happens for me as well.

I have eVGA's 133-K8-NF41-AX (nForce4 SLI chipset).


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G

Guest

That is exactly what happens to me.

I'm using EVGA's 133-K8-NF41-AX (nForce4 SLI Chipset)
 
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Ken Blake, MVP

John said:
That is exactly what happens for me as well.

I have eVGA's 133-K8-NF41-AX (nForce4 SLI chipset).
Click to expand...


My motherboard is a different one (MSI K8N Neo4) but it has the same
chipset. The people I've been talking to about that I trust think it's an
issue with the motherboard/chipset. I've also tried installing Vista from
within Windows XP on a separate partition ins a dual-boot scenario, but that
doesn't work either. Everything seemed to be going OK. It accepted the
driver diskette, then gave me a message about a missing SCSI driver. Since I
have no SCSI devices, I told it to go ahead anyway. It went through copying
files, then rebooted.
But rebooting resulted in a blue screen, which repeated when I tried
rebooting again.



If you, or anyone else here, has any other suggestions for me to try, I'm
all ears.
 
K

Ken Blake, MVP

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Guest

I have the exact same problem but I have an Abit AW8-MAX 3rd Eye II. With an
Intel 955x Chipset. So it can't be about just the chipset/mainboard. I am not
using any RAID arrays and I have three drives only one of which is
partitioned right in half. I read in some forums on the internet people
mentioning that the setup spits out the "setup could not get the information
about the disks on your computer" error when you have partitions. This is
extremely frustrating because its obvious that lots of people have this
problem but I have yet to find one with a response from Microsoft in these
forums.

Whats going on guys. How about some help. 1/2 of the user base for this
operation will probably have some form of SATA/RAID/ or partitions on their
computer. If this is a common problem than it needs to be remedied.
 

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