Windows Vista installing problem using RAID 0

Ezyryder

Ezyryder

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Hello there,

I have a Gigabyte GA_P35_DS3R and 2 250gig Samsung harddrives and am having serious trouble installing vista using RAID 0. I am using the Gigabyte SATA (purple) instead of the Intel one. When it gets to the screen where you can choose a drive it says that I don't have any so I load the drivers that came on the DVD. It loads them fine and then it shows the Hard drive on the screen, when I click on it, it says its not a valid volume and it just closes. Anyone has any ideas?

Thanks
 
Have you already installed Vista and trying to set up RAID 0 on your hard drive which already has vista on it? If so it wont work, you need to run the RAID bios first, setup the RAID 0 array and then install Vista on to that.

<edit> You need to press Ctrl + G when it says on bootup to get in to the gigabyte RAID bios.
 
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No, we tried on 2 new hard drives. Not even formated.

It appears as 1 single hard drive on the screen selection now of 500g (on the Gigabyte RAID BIOS post when we switch on the pc appear OK as RAID 0 - we called it WINRAID). But it still says that we can't install it in that drive :(
 
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Hi, i just installed 2X320 in raid0 yesterday in Vista64. Try this:
When you come to the Controller driver installation don't use the motherboard disk, just highlight the drive and create a new partition on it. When thats done format it, try to select it as the OS drive before clicking next to continue the installation, if it still gives the error re-boot and let the Vista installation start again. It should work this time. Your problem is that your drive aint mounted and formatted basically.
 
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Ezyryder said:
It loads them fine and then it shows the Hard drive on the screen, when I click on it, it says its not a valid volume and it just closes. Anyone has any ideas?

Thanks
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I had this problem when installing Vista 64-bit, though I was using normal HDD's as the RAID drivers Gigabyte are currently supplying don't work. To fix the problem I had to change from Legacy to Native IDE in the BIOS. Legacy has always worked before, but not in this case, which I found a bit weird.
 
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