vista raid install problem

greywolf · 26 Mar 2008 at 14:28

Iam trying to install vista premium 64 for the first time on to two Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB drives in raid 0. I have enabled raid in my bios and both hard drives shown up in the bios. I also have got the correct driver on a usb pen drive. The driver installs correctly via using the load driver. But when i click new icon there is no option to select what raid setting etc.Also on the where do you want to install screen only one disc is showing, is this correct? What am i doing wrong?

bledd · 26 Mar 2008 at 14:49

you've gotta setup the raid before the windows startup, it'll either be in the bios, or a screen just after the bios

which raid controller do you have? (or motherboard)

greywolf · 26 Mar 2008 at 14:54

Its a gigabyte p965 ds3

bledd · 26 Mar 2008 at 15:12

i'm assuming it uses the ich9r (my ds3r does)

-you 100% sure it supports raid? (i've not checked the model)

to get the raid bios screen, i had to enable raid in the bios, then it prompted me to press ctrl + I after the main bios screen i think

greywolf · 26 Mar 2008 at 15:14

Thanks for the help bledd , i think i got it sorted. Im an idiot and had the drives plugged in to the yellow sata sockets when they had to be in the purple ones

bledd · 26 Mar 2008 at 15:16

ahh it's pretty much exactly the same as mine, just mine's a p35 http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/ga-p965-ds3/

you can do raid 0 on the gigabyte ones too, but that's probably another bios setting

the manual should explain all if you get stuck, but the intel ones are probably faster at raid

greywolf · 26 Mar 2008 at 17:32

I have a new problem on the next step where it says Copying windows files 0% athough it just stays at 0%. The ... keep going but never the % ?

bledd · 26 Mar 2008 at 18:18

just leave the pc for say 30 mins and come back, it's slow at starting that stage tbh

greywolf · 26 Mar 2008 at 23:09

I left it for way over 1 hour and it didnt start. Any one have a clue whats going on?

bledd · 26 Mar 2008 at 23:38

how much ram do you have?

if it's 3gb+, try removing ram so you have 2gb only

greywolf · 27 Mar 2008 at 09:11

Have 2gb in , took 2gb out previous to install.