XP Pro Setup Phase 2 not able to load SATA RAID Drivers

[Ted Harvey]

Hello,

I have seen several posts similar to this, but not exactly the same.

Built a new PC and have set up the boot drive to be a striped array of 2
identical SATA disks. The array is setup via the bios and all seems well.

Start xp pro setup, Hit the F6 to install the array drivers - install both
drivers listed in motherboard manual (Nvidia NForce 4 Ultra Raid Controller)

Setup continues and Windows begins to copy files.

Setup then asks for the raid driver files again, the floppy with the drivers
is still in the drive, but there is no option to copy them from the floppy,
just retry, skip or cancel.

If you skip, setup continues until the GUI portion begins and then BSOD. I
followed the directions from the motherboard mfg to the letter. What am I
missing? How do I get the drivers to copy successfully?

Thanks for any help.

Ted


Configuration:

MSI K8N Motherboard
2 WD Raptor SATA HDD SATA 1 and SATA 2
Plextor SATA DVD RW - on SATA 3 - Raid not enabled here
ATI PCIE Video

The motherboard has 2 SATA Controllers. One Nvidia and one Silicon
something.. I have disabled the Silicon and am using the nvidia as it
supports more of the SATA features. I couldn't find anywhere in the manual
where it says to use one to boot and not the other..

 

[Guest]

At F6 it asks for specify option,press s,it then asks for floppy,install,
select controller,then s again,then select controller,s again,it should then
ask, use windows drivers or s use drivers from floppy,select s,then at next
menu screen press enter.Basically you need to run it 2X

 

[Ted Harvey]

Thanks for the info but I did that...

I did that and the drivers seem to load fine. It isn't until the setup
moves on to next mode, it says Windows Setup in lower left and this is when
the file copy progress bar is displayed.. At this point the message is
something like 'setup cannot find .nataraid.sys,' but only provides 3
options:
1. Retry - but with no means to aim the search to the floppy
2. Skip - eventually ending up in BSOD
3. Quit Setup.

Ted