Win7 installation issue

[kagebe]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to install win7 on a raid 0 4tb hdd. My mobo is A8Z68-V Pro, it does have UEFI Bios.

This is the error that appears on the "select the driver to be installed"

"Load Driver
A required CD/DVD drive devce driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD , DVD or USB flash drive, please insert it now

note: if the windows installation media is in the cd/dvd drive, you can safely remote it for this step."

How can I have my raid 0 hd drive appear on the Select the drive section.

Thanks

 

[bucknutty]

Go to the manufacturer website for your mobo.
Download the raid drivers for your board.
There should be instructions on how to unpack the drivers so you can put them on a USB stick or a DVD in a format that the windows installer can use.
Normally it will be a .cab and a .inf file.
Then when windows 7 asks you for the driver you point it at the CD or usb drive.

edit before you start the install you have to set sata 0 and sata 1 for raid 0 in the bios.

 

[kagebe]

I've been on the manufacturers website looking for the drivers to no avail looking for .cab and .inf and have had no luck =/.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

This topic has been moved from the section Windows 7 to section Storage by Area51reopened

 

[RetiredChief]

Windows 7 64 bit Intel F6 raid driver - Select windows 7 64 bit then in 2nd window click on driver F6 driver is the 2nd one down. Stick on thumbdrive, click have driver (under custom Install) when asked broose to thumbdrive.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Chipsets&ProductLine=Chipset+Software&ProductProduct=Intel%c2%ae+Rapid+Storage+Technology

Don't forget to also download the RST driver for after windows 7 installation is complete (Not use Ver 10.6) And HDDs should be on intel sata ports.

 

[kagebe]

RetiredChief, I did what you stated and still had error come up stating

"No drive loaded"

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I'm wondering if it has to deal with the raid size being 4tb in total.

 

[RetiredChief]

Good call.
Easy way to tell, When setting up the raid array - only select half the drive. The select the rest of the drive for a 2nd stripped array.

I prefer this to partitioning the drives afterwards using windows Disk management.
Windows will see the arrays as drive0 and drive 1 INSTEAD of one drive. You can then further partiton them using the windows diskmanagement.

Note: if this works and windows can see the "drive0" I would still select custom install and partition the "now 2 TB" drive to say a 200->400 Gig OS +program drive C. You can then install windows and partition the remainder of the drive however you see fit. DON'T forget that you will have to Intialize/partition (if desired)/formate Drive1 (the 2nd stripped array) before it will be usable (shows up in My Computer)

 

[kagebe]

RetiredChief, thanks for all the help man, I was able to install windows 7 onto my hdd. The problem was the Sata 3 port, so i just plugged it into a new port and installed it that way.

 

[kagebe]

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