Vista blue screen after enabling Raid

[JR]

I had 1 drive in my system running Vista, non raid. Installed two more
identical disks and plugged them into the Intel SATA ports like the
other one was. Enabled RAID in BIOS and configured the new drives to
RAID 0. Windows keeps starting up and blue screening and rebooting
right away. Reboots as well loading into Safe Mode. Any clue what's
going on? I can't load the raid drivers for the computer as it tells
me my system doesn't meet the system requirements if I have the raid
controller disabled. Probably because it doesn't seem to see it. Any
clue? Motherboard is a Gigabyte P35-DS4 if it matters.

Thanks.

JR

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

You'd have to reinstall using an appropriate RAID driver.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[JR]

Hi,

You'd have to reinstall using an appropriate RAID driver.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVPhttp://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -www.rickrogers.org
My thoughtshttp://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

There has got to be a better way than that. Does Windows stink that
badly? You would think a repair or some way of manually installing
the drivers would exist. I have a secondary SATA controller on the
computer (Gigabyte SATA2 chip). Wondering if I can move the primary
drive to that controller, leave the raid enabled and if Windows would
boot in since the secondary controller is not raid enabled and then I
could install the drivers. Not sure if Windows will just keep
crapping out because it can't load the device drivers if the primary
drive is no longer on the raid controller or what.

JR

 

[JR]

There has got to be a better way than that.  Does Windows stink that
badly?  You would think a repair or some way of manually installing
the drivers would exist.  I have a secondary SATA controller on the
computer (Gigabyte SATA2 chip).  Wondering if I can move the primary
drive to that controller, leave the raid enabled and if Windows would
boot in since the secondary controller is not raid enabled and then I
could install the drivers.  Not sure if Windows will just keep
crapping out because it can't load the device drivers if the primary
drive is no longer on the raid controller or what.

JR

My better way as described above worked.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

As you found the workaround, great. But, note that you can't just migrate an
OS from a straight install to a raid, and not just windows. The driver for
the os to recognize the array has to be loaded as part of the hal, and that
can't be changed without reinstalling.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

There has got to be a better way than that. Does Windows stink that
badly? You would think a repair or some way of manually installing
the drivers would exist. I have a secondary SATA controller on the
computer (Gigabyte SATA2 chip). Wondering if I can move the primary
drive to that controller, leave the raid enabled and if Windows would
boot in since the secondary controller is not raid enabled and then I
could install the drivers. Not sure if Windows will just keep
crapping out because it can't load the device drivers if the primary
drive is no longer on the raid controller or what.

JR

My better way as described above worked.