vista and raid

[vincent1989]

how do i do it, before i try it and rooster it up, what do i need to download, what will i need?

2 SATA 160GB samsungs...

 

[vincent1989]

Should just need a CD/floppy/some kind of drive with the RAID drivers on. When Vista is installing it'll ask if you have any additional drivers before it starts the setup.

can you link me to the drivers, i had a quick look on microsofts sight, but gleaned nowt

 

[vincent1989]

Put your motherboard model in to the manufacturers website and it should give you a list of latest drivers

ahhh, ok, thanks...can i use a DVD to install them? (dont have floppy drive, or spare CD)

 

[vincent1989]

A bit of a waste putting ~1mb of files on a DVD, but yep you could probably use one

they're RW's

sheesh, asus homepage is slow....:/

 

[vincent1989]

Ah, cool



Yup, it's sometimes super slow

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

which one of these would i need...it's all so confusing if you've never done this kind of stuff before

do i just burn it to a disk, and then it will work straight of, no problem? or do i extract, then burn, or what?


edit: i'll be on 64bit vista...so that cuts it in half

 

[vincent1989]

Doesn't look like it's there

Are you sure your board supports RAID?

yes

what am i looking for exactly?

there seems like a lot of raid drivers to choose from on that page, why aren't any suitable.

my motherboard is the asus P5W DH duluxe wifi, its pretty new, and comes with a jumper to switch the drives in 2 'special' sata ports into different raid arrays, could this mean i need not download a driver?

 

[vincent1989]

That's strange, I can't see the RAID driver anywhere there

Saying that... it doesn't even list USB2 drivers

:/

 

[vincent1989]

Check out the CD that came with the motherboard, it might have the drivers

so i just stick that in before i install vista? or does it prompt before install?

 

[vincent1989]

IIRC it asks you during the Vista install if you have any extra drivers that need to be installed before Vista gets installed, at that point put the CD in... but make sure the RAID drivers are actually on there before you start

ok, the disk comes with the jmicron raid thingy, so i'm assuming thats it, i don't mind installing it not in raid, but raid would be nice, thanks for your help

 

[vincent1989]

Ohhh, that's why it wasn't listed with your motherboard... it's a separate RAID card, right?

In that case stick the jmicron CD in when Vista asks you for additional drivers and you should be good to go

ok mate...worth a shot anyway, got nothing to lose as i've got it all backed up on a 240gb HDD

just looked at my vista DVD for the first time, and all i can say is 'crap' its scratched to buggery hope it works ffs

 

[vincent1989]

got my raid working, thanks guys, just glad i still have XP installed on my backup drive, it's been a life saver, didn't think i would need to download a new version of AOL (CD not compatable with the operating system)
drivers for motherboard/graphics
AVG
etc etc

thanks for the help, took a while, but with a little help from the manula i eventually had it sorted

edit: and most annoyingly enough, i couldn't use the drivers asus gave me for the mobo, and am having to waste time downloading others

 

[vincent1989]

So where in XP you had to load the Raid drivers by floppy you can do it by disc in Vista?

apparently so, and if you have a motherboard like mine it's 'buildt in' so no need for drivers.

well chuffed with vista, after getting the drivers i need i'm having zero problems, it looks awesome, runs smoothly, lots better than XP

 

[vincent1989]

anyone know of any decent, free firewalls?

 

[vincent1989]

Windows one?

hehe