How does Vista treat RAID configs?

LLBDTiberio · 20 Jan 2007 at 22:10

Hi all, getting Vista on thuesday, yay!
Anyway, for those of you that already have it, how would one go about setting up a RAID0 config?
I read that you no longer need a floppy drive to do this, can one just use the CD that came with the motherboard for the drivers, or do I have to make one.
Would be great if one could just put in the cd from the motherboard and be up and running

mysticsniper · 20 Jan 2007 at 22:13

I couldn't install Raid0 on Vist last week. I set Raid up in the Bios and seleted a 16k Stripe. It went onto the Vista setup and loaded the files, and when it restarted the computer I just got the error "Operating system not found"

:confused:

bluesouljah · 20 Jan 2007 at 22:18

After trawling the net for some time I managed to get some working RAID drivers for my nforce 4 chipset. Before I had to install xp and then create an upgrade over the top.

LLBDTiberio · 20 Jan 2007 at 22:28

Hmm, will try when I get Vista, would be nice to get RAID instead of having 3 separate HD's :rolleyes:

iMacMart · 20 Jan 2007 at 22:29

I have a LP Ultra-D nforce 4 board and set-up RAID 0 in Vista by getting the modded drivers from the last tutorial here and they worked first time

vista saw my RAID and it's all good..........!!!

Hope this helps someone

bluesouljah · 20 Jan 2007 at 22:39

tweakinfreak said:
I have a LP Ultra-D nforce 4 board and set-up RAID 0 in Vista by getting the modded drivers from the last tutorial here and theyworked first time vista saw my RAID and it's all good..........!!!

Hope this helps someone

Yep, I have the same board and used the same drivers. Worked a treat.

Trixxy · 20 Jan 2007 at 22:44

tweakinfreak said:
I have a LP Ultra-D nforce 4 board and set-up RAID 0 in Vista by getting the modded drivers from the last tutorial here and they worked first time vista saw my RAID and it's all good..........!!!

Hope this helps someone

It'll help me, was just about to go searching for some.. thanks!

Jimi · 20 Jan 2007 at 23:00

Works fine for me, didn't even need to load any drivers.

Cob · 20 Jan 2007 at 23:08

I had to load the drivers from a floppy to install Vista on my DS3. But there were no problems.

iMacMart · 20 Jan 2007 at 23:17

Jimi said:
Works fine for me, didn't even need to load any drivers.

It's only Nforce 4 legacy boards that have this RAID issue!

Jakus · 21 Jan 2007 at 01:07

LLBDTiberio said:
Hi all, getting Vista on thuesday, yay!
Anyway, for those of you that already have it, how would one go about setting up a RAID0 config?
I read that you no longer need a floppy drive to do this, can one just use the CD that came with the motherboard for the drivers, or do I have to make one.
Would be great if one could just put in the cd from the motherboard and be up and running

About the only thing different with Vista is it finally allows Raid/HD drivers to be loaded from something other than a legacy Floppy....Doubt any motherboard would have a support CD with Vista raid drivers for quite some time

sw1 · 21 Jan 2007 at 10:18

Hi,

Does anyone know if this is also the case for an ABIT AW9D-MAX, I have the floppy drivers.

Was wondering if Vista would have had the drivers available.