RAID 0 Windows 7 installatiion FAILURE

[Nafryti]

So i spent a whole 24 hours, December 17th, AKA my birthday, trying to setup a RAID 0 array with 4 Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm HDD's. I have extensively searched google for how to's and walk throughs, using my laptop trying to find any and all kinds of knowledge on several of the issues i have been having, i finally managed to get the RAID array setup through the utility program thingy in the BIOS. CTRL+F to enter the RAID setup thing took me forever to figure out how to unlock through BIOS SB SATA configuration, now every time i try to install Win7 on the RAID array... i get one of two errors, IF the driver loads at all.

Sometimes the driver doesn't load, and additionally i cannot use all the 3999GB only 2048GB like i have some kind of size limitation... i thought this was 2013, why am i still restricted by 1999 junk.

Here's a list of problems, with installing...
1: sometimes loading the RAID driver doesn't do anything
2: installation hangs on "Expanding Windows Files"
3: most common Error code thrown up is : 0x80070002
4: and then the random error code : 0x80070015

Around this house i'm the computer genius, but this has me stumped beyond any jedi mind trickery. so i beg of that Obi Wan out there, Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.

 

[ahnilated]

in bios you can have 2TB drive limits depending on what you set the drive types too. You need a GPT bios for drives over 2TB.

 

[Shaun o]

Yes you must format the drives to a Gpt partition.
The error is with the bios and its limitation to access a drive over 2TB in size if formatted with NTFS.

Remember when you raid drives, it combines them to an overall size or presents them as one working drive.

 

[Nafryti]

ok, so i'm running the ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z, i've heard of the ASUS Disk Unlocker, any ideas?

 

[Nafryti]

i read that UEFI bios allows or is part of GPT so, i'm going to try an EFI windows install