Vista Tutorial - RAID 0 problems

I'm trying RAID 0 for the first time and i'm having some problems. I set up my hard drives to the RAID0 option in the BIOS. chose my HDD, allocated space, striped, everything. when time came to install windows and it searched for the driver, i put the proper driver in a USB drive. it recognizes it, sees it, and when i click ok, it starts installation but then stops with the message "windows could not retrieve information about the disks on this computer".

i just don't get it. i downloaded the driver on the manufacturer's website. i made sure it was for the 64bit vista os. i even downloaded all the different country specific drivers and tried each one of them. i basically tried every driver, even the 32bit version just to make sure. still the same message.

everything's new and working properly so i don't think it's a hardware issue. both hard drives are the exact same brand, type, & capacity. they are both recognized in the BIOS.

any suggestions?

What motherboard do you have?

GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3LR
(2x) WD CAVIAR 500Gb

Use these Pre-install drivers: ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/XP_Vista_Win7/ Extract the files and copy "floppy32" and "floppy64" to your memory stick and when its asks you to load drivers load the 32bit drivers first then the 64bit.

If those drivers dont work try the jmb38x drivers: ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb38x/XP_Vista_Win7/

thank you so much man! much appreciated..