I have the following configuration setup:

MSI K7N2 Delta2 FSR motherboard
512 MB Crucial Memory
2 SATA WD 74 GB 10K RPM drives
MSI NX6600GT Video Card
Floppy Drive
Plextor 716A DVD writer

I've been trying to set my PC with RAID but have had no luck having XP
install the drivers needed.

I am setting this up as a RAID 0 (striping) configuration. I set everything
up properly in the BIOS and press F10 to then config the RAID. Boot from the
CD and press F6 when prompted to load the raid drivers. I have and leave the
floppy in the drive at this point and press 'S' to load the first driver,
press enter, then press 'S' again to load the second driver. At this point I
press enter to continue with the installation. After formatting the drives,
it's starts the install and then eventually pops up with the message that it
can not find the drivers needed on the floppy. Pressing enter again (retry)
does nothing so after pressing escape 5 or 6 times to get past all of the
files it can't find, it continues with the installation until a blue screen
comes up and tells me something is wrong with my computer, figuring that it
because it could not load the raid drivers.

Trying to install it again, this time using the SATA drives as just regular
drives (no raid) I was able to install it. I see my C drive and my D drive
both the 74 GB drives.

Any ideas why I can't get raid installed like I would like to?

Youre RAID set is configured in the configuration utility outside the BIOS,you
boot to cd,press F6,then select s Install floppy,select the controller or
specific
drivers for xp,press s again, select same drivers or same controller for xp
as
you did the 1st time,then you should get prompted "use drivers on floppy" or
"run windows drivers" select floppy,at the next screen,press enter key,then
proceed to install xp.All youre doing in F6 is really selecting the same
drivers
2 times.For more info,go
to:http://support.intel.com/support/mot.../CS-010695.htm

"wasiii" wrote:

> I have the following configuration setup:
>
> MSI K7N2 Delta2 FSR motherboard
> 512 MB Crucial Memory
> 2 SATA WD 74 GB 10K RPM drives
> MSI NX6600GT Video Card
> Floppy Drive
> Plextor 716A DVD writer
>
> I've been trying to set my PC with RAID but have had no luck having XP
> install the drivers needed.
>
> I am setting this up as a RAID 0 (striping) configuration. I set everything
> up properly in the BIOS and press F10 to then config the RAID. Boot from the
> CD and press F6 when prompted to load the raid drivers. I have and leave the
> floppy in the drive at this point and press 'S' to load the first driver,
> press enter, then press 'S' again to load the second driver. At this point I
> press enter to continue with the installation. After formatting the drives,
> it's starts the install and then eventually pops up with the message that it
> can not find the drivers needed on the floppy. Pressing enter again (retry)
> does nothing so after pressing escape 5 or 6 times to get past all of the
> files it can't find, it continues with the installation until a blue screen
> comes up and tells me something is wrong with my computer, figuring that it
> because it could not load the raid drivers.
>
> Trying to install it again, this time using the SATA drives as just regular
> drives (no raid) I was able to install it. I see my C drive and my D drive
> both the 74 GB drives.
>
> Any ideas why I can't get raid installed like I would like to?
>