install vista raid 0 system

Hi, I can't install vista on my computer : the installation didn't see my hdd, which is in Raid 0....any idea ?

You have to put the drivers for your sata on a floppy, CD, DVD or USB thumb drive and install them before you can see the partition information. There is a selection to "install drivers". Use it please.
-- Regards,
Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
Quote from George Ankner: If you knew as much as you think you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"Desvernois Anthony" wrote in message

Hi, I can't install vista on my computer : the installation didn't see my hdd, which is in Raid 0....any idea ?

Richard Urban a écrit :

You have to put the drivers for your sata on a floppy, CD, DVD or USB thumb drive and install them before you can see the partition information. There is a selection to "install drivers". Use it please.
thanks :)

I did a clean install Vista on my raid drive, no problem installing the Sil 3112 raid drivers at the start of the install. I did run into a problem installing applications that I need. They would not install on Vista and replacement software for Vista is not available.
I decided to reinstall Windows XP Pro along with all the applications I need and then do the UPGRADE thing. The install program did not see the raid drive, drivers not yet installed, and therefore it could not find the Windows XP Pro and therefore it disabled the UPGRADE option. :-( The next window allowed me to install the driver and the raid drive magically appeared but still it would only allow a clean install and you could not go back after installing the driver.
I don't see why the install program can't ask for any drivers you have, raid, scsi, sata, etc., before it goes searching the drives for the operating systems. THIS IS A BUG. :-)
I know I can probably use Partition Magic to move my operating system to an old IDE drive, then I can maybe upgrade to Vista, then if Partition Magic still works move things back to the raid drive. This is not something I am going to try.
Al


"Richard Urban" wrote in message

You have to put the drivers for your sata on a floppy, CD, DVD or USB thumb drive and install them before you can see the partition information. There is a selection to "install drivers". Use it please.
-- Regards,
Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
Quote from George Ankner: If you knew as much as you think you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"Desvernois Anthony" wrote in message Hi, I can't install vista on my computer : the installation didn't see my hdd, which is in Raid 0....any idea ?

I dont see how. After clicking the arrow to install vista I get the message "Setup could not get information about the disks on your computer" hitting ok takes me back to the initial install vista screen. There is no oportunity to tell the install to look for my (sata) raid drivers.
if I unplug the satas then the install does move on to the next section and it installs to a partition on my standard ide drive, but then because there were no sata's I dont get the chance to install sata raid drivers. (it will later only show two empty sata, with no indication of the raid 0 volume)
"Richard Urban" wrote:

You have to put the drivers for your sata on a floppy, CD, DVD or USB thumb drive and install them before you can see the partition information. There is a selection to "install drivers". Use it please.
-- Regards,
Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
Quote from George Ankner: If you knew as much as you think you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"Desvernois Anthony" wrote in message Hi, I can't install vista on my computer : the installation didn't see my hdd, which is in Raid 0....any idea ?