RAID Setup

[passey89]

i'm just looking at what I need to do to setup RAID 0 on my drives and it says I need a Floppy disk drive to set up properly?

How can I do this without a floppy drive as I don't have 1?

This is what my mobo manual RAID setup says

1.3.2 Installing Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit With RAID Functions
If you want to install Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit on a RAID disk composed of 2 or more SATA3
HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps.
STEP 1: Set up UEFI.
A. Enter UEFI SETUP UTILITY → Advanced screen → Storage Configuration.
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B. Set the “SATA Mode” option to [RAID].
STEP 2: Use “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID configuration.
Before you start to configure RAID function, you need to check this RAID installation guide for proper configuration.
Please refer to the BIOS RAID installation guide part in this document for details.
STEP 3: Make a SATA3 Driver Diskette. (Please use USB floppy or floppy disk.)
Make a SATA3 driver diskette by following section 1.3.1 step 2 on page 4.
STEP 4: Install Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit OS on your system.

 

[Greebo]

USB stick works as well but you might not need it. Windows 7 is pretty good at having the drivers built in.

Or you can shoehorn your drivers into an image of windows 7 so they are on your installation disc right from the start

 

[passey89]

Right so all I need to do is

Go to bios swap to raid mode
The restart press watever button for raid installation guide.
Follow that through to sort drives out
Format current drive
Install windows to the raid drive and pray to god that the raid drivers r ob there.

If I do need the raid drivers ( ive already downloaded the ones it says)

Do I just drag them onto a usb drive or do I need to do anything special to the usb stick?