Installing vista on a RAID 0 setup

[Wisemansa]

hey ppl,

im having problems installing windows vista on a partition in a RAID 0 setup, setup has 2x250gb hard drives with 3 partitions , one for XP, one for storage, and a new partition for Vista.

while installing vista from XP, the partitions were picked up fine, cos the drivers were already loaded in xp. then it finishes copying files, restarts, tries to resume vista setup and load vista instead of XP, then i get the blue screen of death after vista tries to continue with the setup.

so i restart and boot into windows, i searched on internet and found that many ppl with Nvidia sataRaid were having this problem.

i tried booting with the vista dvd, loading the drivers etc, but still the OS can only see my 2 250 gbhdds as one unformatted 250gb!

any one care to shed some light on what i can do to solve the problem?

because now vista is half installed, even though i deleted the partition i set it to install to, and everytime i restart my computer vista tries to load, and i have to choose use earlier windows version else i get the blue screen

thanks
HaNsA

 

[Franna]

Get the drivers for your RAID controller and put it on a floppy. When booting from the Vista CD press F6 to load the NVidia RAID drivers.

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Well thats how you did it in XP, you sure that still works Franna?

 

[4nT1_8unNy]

OMW not floppies with Vista!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Wisemansa]

Get the drivers for your RAID controller and put it on a floppy. When booting from the Vista CD press F6 to load the NVidia RAID drivers.

theres now a button instead to 'load drivers' tried it with the original floppy that came with my mobo, but didnt work.

 

[werner]

try this,
ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/vista/rc1/

 

[killadoob]

vista has major problems with nvidia chipsets though

 

[werner]

vista has major problems with nvidia chipsets though

that is a very interesting statement...

interesting because it depends on where you stand.

vista is the new kid in town, and in some respects there are new ways of doing things.

should vista bend over and make sure the "old" nvidia drivers work?
should nvidia come to the party and ensure their chipsets work with a just-released OS?

hmmm

me personally, I have been through a few microsoft OS releases...stuff always doesnt work in the beginning, and it is normally 3rd party drivers that arent up to speed (try find a parallel port scanner driver for xp...) but after a while the dust settles and we all look around and wonder what the fuss was about.

but, first and foremost, I am a consumer...i CONSUME. I use.
Right now, I want to use vista, but I cant use vista (if your stement of nvidia problems is true) right now on nvidia, so I will go somewhere else for my visat-love.

hence, I see it as the onus being on nvidia to jack up their story.

or, they could just keep selling chipsets labelled "for windows xp only" and ignore the huge oem market who are all going to start shipping vista shortly.