Help with RAID 0

Technics · 23 Feb 2010 at 12:28

I recently bought a set of identicle hard drives with the intention to use them both in raid 0. i went through all the set up changed controller to raid , raided the two drives. The problem i face is when i go to install windows at the start a window appears telling me that i need to install a cd device driver before it will let me continue.

I assumed this to mean i need to install some sort of raid drivers which i downloaded from the ASUS site, would i need to make a ISO disk to install them or would just putting them on a disc work?

Mobo is a Asus croshair III

Technics · 23 Feb 2010 at 12:32

I'm using windows 7 but have tried it with an old vista disc i had and both still brings up the same issue

Technics · 23 Feb 2010 at 12:54

This is exactly whats said during installation of Win7

"Load Driver

A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy Disk, CD, DVD or USB flash drive please insert it now."

Hope this helps a little more

Technics · 23 Feb 2010 at 14:12

When i use an old IDE drive to install the OS it gets a little bit further to the stage where i have to select which drive to save to. except my raid array isn't there

, dispite it showing as a functional array in the bios. As soon as i change the sata controller to RAID nothing seems to work properly on the sata ports, not even a sata optical drive .

Technics · 23 Feb 2010 at 15:37

Ok finally have Win7 installing on my drive

Thanks go out to all who helped, especially JBloggs for suggesting the use of a IDE drive to get things kick started.

Turns out it was to do with the 790fx chip set not being support in RAID in the native Win7 environment (well atleast my version wasn't). So in the end i had to go through the following steps:

-dig out an old IDE drive ( thanks to Jbloggs)
-go to the asus site and get the new AHIC drivers for win 7 and putting them on a disc
-disable digital signature enforcement during the installation ( as for some reason Windows wouldn't accept them with this feature on, even after this only one of the drivers would work anyway.
-select and install the drive, swop back to the OS CD and continue the installation.

So three hours and a considerable amount of stress later :eek:

i have RAID 0 up and running!

(hopes for the speed increase to be worth it!)

Thanks, Technics