vista 64 and HD raid

lokiguesty

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Hi all

will mostly likely be investing in Windows Vista 64 Home Premium tomorrow

at the moment under XP i have 2 x raptors in raid 0 and to set it up dure in windows set up i hit (f6 i think) to install the relevent drivers from a provided floppy disk, the problem is i cant remember if there were 64 bit drivers on the floppy and i dont even know if thats important?

basically does it work in the same way with vista, will i need to install raid drivers from a floppy? is there anything i should download from various webbies in advance?

thanks

loki
 
If your Vista media includes SP1 then you most likely will not need additional drivers as they appear to be fully integrated.

If your Vista media doesn't include SP1 then you'll want to download the Vista64 RAID drivers for your motherboard.
These should be available from your motherboard manufacturers website.

Unlike with WinXP you can place these drivers on any kind of media - floppy, CD, DVD, Flash Drive and Vista64 can be pointed to them during installation.
 
sounds like it could be an easier install process than XP was then :)

i'll be buying from OCUK do u know if their vista's include SP1?

im also thinking i might spend this evening downloading the 64bit drivers for the different apps on my mobo, and my gfx card etc in advance of tomorrow, as i doubt the disk with the mobo includes 64 bit drivers. if i install the disk then download 64bti drivers to the downloaded drivers over write the ones from the disk or will there possibly be conflicts?

thanks

Loki
 
Are you using the Intel RAID on your motherboard? If so, there are Vista x64 drivers on their website so don't worry.

Personally I would always give it the latest driver. The drivers that come with Windows aren't always the best performers and/or could contain less features like "hot swap".
 
well im using the onboard raid controller that came with the mobo.

the motherboard is a gigabyte ds3 sorta thing (vague huh)

i noticed on the gigabye website they have downloadable drivers for vista 64 but didnt notice if one of the options was drivers for the raid controller.
 
lokiguesty said:
sounds like it could be an easier install process than XP was then :)
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it's the same process, but xp was released before your raid controller, you can either add them to the disc or press F6 upon boot

the biggest difference with vista is you can use a usbkey or cd instead of floppy for the 'F6' driver if it needs one

chance are it'll have your controller already
 
right i think tonight then i will download all the 64bit drivers and apps i can think of and shove them on a removable HD that way i can install them if they are needed or if they are newer drives than vista has.

the only thing i might have trouble with is my lexmark printer / scanner as the vista compatability program seemed to think that it wouldnt work under vista.

thanks for the help

lets hope i dont make a total mess of it :)
 
onboard ethernet = network card, i was just saying get the driver for that, and you're away! :)

no point getting a pci one if that works fine, although it's handy to have a realtek pci network card knocking about incase the onboard gets fried or anything... (they cost about £3-5)
 
sounds good to me guys

thanks very much for your help

i'll be popping into the ocuk office tomorrow to get my copy of 64bot vista home premium.

plus a couple of other things i have my eye on :)
 
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