NVRAID install failure

3 SATA hard drives, 2 are RAIDed in a striping array. So first (to get the
story out of the way) I tried booting Vista x64 RC1 setup via DVD and using
the nVidia nForce4 drivers for Vista RC1 on CD-RW to load the RAID drivers
during boot/setup but the drivers would not load. Kept trying this for a
couple days, gave up.

Then I found another hard drive lying around, formatted it, installed
Windows XP Pro x64 Ed., and then installed the appropriate XP x64 drivers
from nVidia, and then ran the Vista x64 RC1 DVD. The RAID drive could now be
seen (as it was visible now in XP), but it still said it could not be
installed without the appropriate drivers. I then tried the nVidia nForce4
drivers for Vista RC1 and now it was INSTALLING!!

The setup files copied completely over and the computer rebooted. Then it
said, "Could not find the selected partition for the installation target."
It proceeded to rollback and cancel setup without so much as a "Retry" or
"Reload driver".

Now what?

- Jon

This thread was mistitled... NVRAID is the software RAID solution, I think,
rather than the hardware RAID. I am using hardware RAID, which comes with my
nVidia nForce4 chipset.

Jon

"Jon Davis" <> wrote in message
news:OJo$...
> This thread was mistitled... NVRAID is the software RAID solution, I
> think,
> rather than the hardware RAID. I am using hardware RAID, which comes with
> my
> nVidia nForce4 chipset.
>
> Jon
>
>

Hi Jon, I intalled RC 1 in my desktop and laptop both in a raid array woth
out the need of any drivers on f6 floppy or usb stick or dvd, the drivers
from nvidia for dfi nf4 lanparty dr sli came out of the box and with my
laptop the same thing only diff. was that this one is a via array, it also
came out the box, I'm writing this post from RC1 on Nvidia raid array.

Jon Davis wrote:

>3 SATA hard drives, 2 are RAIDed in a striping array. So first (to get the
>story out of the way) I tried booting Vista x64 RC1 setup via DVD and using
>the nVidia nForce4 drivers for Vista RC1 on CD-RW to load the RAID drivers

The drivers for RC1 do not like mixed IDE and SATA controllers. If
you're using a motherboard that has this feature, you're out of luck.

>Now what?

Wait until nVidia releases drivers with proper support?