Going round in circles

[glitch]

I'm trying to set up a new system today and create a RAID 1 set across two drives and install Vista 64-bit on them. And according to my motherboard's manual:

A floppy disc with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows XP/Vista and later operating system on a hard disc that is included in a RAID set. For Windows Vista user, you can create a RAID driver disc with a floppy disky drive or a USB flash disc drive

But unless I'm missing something here you need to be running Vista in the first place to be able to create a RAID driver disc on a USB flash drive. So in order to create a RAID driver disc so you can install Vista on a hard disc that's in a RAID set... you need to be running Vista.

The key to open the box would appear to be locked inside it.

 

[rpstewart]

1) The drivers may well be in a readable format on the mobo CD in which case use that

2) If you need to expand the drivers onto something else why can't you use the machine you're posting from?

 

[glitch]

From everything I've read so far there's no option of using the mobo CD to install the drivers. They need to either be extracted to a floppy (XP/Vista) or a USB drive (Vista only) and then this is read during the OS installation process, you create the RAID set and then Windows completes the installation as normal but onto a drive that is being used in said RAID set.

I don't have access to a floppy drive and, according to the mobo manual, I don't need to as I intend to use Vista. But in order to extract these files to the USB drive you would appear to have to be running Vista in the first place as it sure isn't working on XP.

Surely I've got to be missing something here? It can't be this complicated, can it?

 

[rpstewart]

You create the RAID array first using the RAID BIOS then you install the OS. Vista will read the drivers from anything - CD, floppy, USB drive etc.

If you need to extract the drivers from a zip file on the CD then you should be able to do that using any OS.