installing vista on raid without floppy

dafloppyone · 22 Jan 2009 at 20:27

Is it possible to install windows vista 32bit to a raid setup without a floppy disk?> i cant seem to get the badaxe 1to recognise my hd. its incredibly frustrating reall. any help will be appreciated.

RJC · 22 Jan 2009 at 20:40

Is it possible to burn the drivers to a cd.
My Abit IP35 Pro had the driver already on drivers disc ready load, could your board be the same?

dafloppyone · 22 Jan 2009 at 20:46

trouble is i cant find the intel badaxe drivers to burn to cd, they wont install it on cd and only request a disk which is a pain

Daegan · 22 Jan 2009 at 22:15

Vista doesn't rely on a floppy disk for driver install during setup, any removable media will do, for instance a USB flash drive.

And exactly what RAID controller are you trying to find drivers for? Intel's download page suggests a Silicone Image controller and has drivers available to download.

jbloggs · 22 Jan 2009 at 23:02

The RAID driver for the ICH9R controller are already contained within Vista (out of box), so you don't require to load any drivers from another storage device during install, simply create RAID in Intel RAID BIOS, install Vista, and drivers will be loaded, then after install your Intel Chipset Installation software reboot, then install Intel Matrix Storage Manager which will also update the ICH9R drivers to latest version, as well as installing Matrix Storage Manager....