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Hi, just finished building my new rig., with EZcool case, 550w ATX psu, Asus M3A mobo' AMD Phenom quad 9600, twin Samsung spinpoint 500gb, Liteon DVD writer, Sapphire Radeon HD 3650 gfx card and Sony floppy drive. All hardware ok on POST, bios checked and RAID 1 enabled. My problem is installing new VISTA Home Premium. It starts to install then asks for drivers for H/disks. I insert driver disk from ASUS but it doesn't find any. If I reboot it then asks for a formatted floppy (to create Raid boot disk?)when I put in floppy I get error "message drive not ready".
Do I need to format the Hard drives and if so how? What else am I doing wrong - help, desperate!!
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Did you put the RAID controller driver on the floppy?
AMD RAID/AHCI Controller Driver V2.5.1540.41 Windows 32/64bit Vista.
http://support.asus.com/download/dow...n-us&model=M3A
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Newbie
Hi thanks, yes I did, but the message kept appearing "Drive not Ready", though after several attempts Vista installed without the Raid array. My problem is how do I set up the raid array now, when I attempted to enable it in BIOS the machine crashed and I had to revert to IDE to restore Vista. Also it should show 64 bit but vista shows only 32bit on system screen. Any suggestions?Originally Posted by jephree
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If it shows 32 bit then that is what was installed.
This is not an option. You either installed a 32 bit version or a 64. I understand that some versions of Vista come with both. Meaning two DVD's. One 32 and one 64.
I would have to read the motherboard manual for details but in general you can only set an array during installation.
How many hard drives are you using and what was your intention/purpose of using an array?
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Thanks,
I didn't realise but Microsoft only issue 32bit install, you have to contact them (and pay extra£9.00 ) to receive 64bit DVD! I wanted the 2 Samsung spinpoint 500gb discs as a RAID1 array to avoid losing updates, programmes, data etc. if 1 HDD goes down in future. Backups of entire disk takes tooooo long. When I receive the 64 bit disk I will let you know if I succeed in creating the array when I install/upgrade that version.
