Installing nvidia Raid driver for Windows Vista

Notorious Lee · 31 May 2007 at 17:11

If I want to install Windows Vista from scratch on a brand new PC & want to install it on a raid array do I need to install the nvidia raid driver before the install at the section where it is asking which storage device you want to install it on. It has an option which is "Load Driver"?

My motherboard is an Asus P5N32E-SLi 680i chipset.

Also, if so I am presuming the very first thing I need to do is download the latest driver from nvidia.com onto a CD & insert the CD when I want to load the driver?

Thanks for your help.

Notorious Lee · 31 May 2007 at 17:26

Thanks for the replies.

Do I need to extract certain files from the driver or is it just a simple case of selecting the downloaded driver?

Notorious Lee · 31 May 2007 at 21:47

Ok. Well I have 2 x 320gb drives & before the install begins when it asks you to select the drive for the install which in my case it shows the one drive because I enabled RAID in the BIOS & set-up a raid (0) array it show's the total capacity of 598 gb.

Where has the other 40gb gone?

I was told that once I install the nvidia drivers it will then show the correct size of my hard drive(s).

Another reason why i'm looking into this issue in more depth is that I think the way I have been installing vista in the past has been the main cause of an issue I keep getting which is when I appear to install nvidia drivers once vista is installed without installing the nvidia drivers before install the vista control panel & welcome centre will not open & neither will the games & other apps. So what i think maybe happening is that when i install the latest drivers after install it's overwriting the drivers that come with vista therefore corrupting certain files. I maybe wrong.

Notorious Lee · 31 May 2007 at 22:19

Hi marc,

Have you heard about the control panel issue?