SATA RAID

[Guest]

Hi, I just bought myself a new HDD for my computer. It's a SATA disc. I have installed it and everything but i can't find it in Windows but I can see it in BIOS. I have downloaded some drivers for SATA RAID from Epox website and i got VIAMRAID.SYS VIAMRAID.CAT and VIAMRAID.CAT. When I hover over the .sys fil it says "VIA RAID DRIVER FOR WIN XP" so i figured that's the driver but I don't know how to install it.

Motherboard: Epox EP-8k9a7i
Windows: XP Pro SP2

Can anyone please help me?

 

[chechnyan]

search for sata controller driver for you're board
which should comes with *.oem file format
copy the file to a floppy disk
when you start installing windows xp hit f6
and load the driver from the floppy
pretty simple

 

[chechnyan]

extra help ??
download the driver from her

http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=420&OSID=1&CatID=1180&SubCatID=143

when extract the content
copy all file from this directory

Windows_V-RAID_V580A\VRAIDDrv\drvdisk
(you will find 1 oem files and three other folders)
now you have the disk

 

[Guest]

chechyan: I dont have a floppy in my computer -.- is there any other way? Through regedit32 maybe?

 

[Guest]

I installed the raid controller and plugged my HDD and plugged it in again and now it works. Thank you for your help =)