Vista - Vista wont see my hdd's

Just got the 64bit version. I put the DVD in the drive, reboot and after it
loads the initial files vista begins searching for my hdd. Problem is vista
says that it dosen't recognize my hdd. Wonder if it is because they are
runnung in raid 0. I disconnected my raid 0 hdd's and hooked up a old 30gig
IMB Deskstar hdd and proceded to install with no probs. After vista was
installed I then hooked my raid hdd's and vista saw them but as 2 seperate
hdd's. I would really like to see how well my raid 0 array preforms under
vista. I have the Nvidia Beta drivers for my mobo (64bit) but can't figure
out how to install them. Any help would be great.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ | LP UT NF4 sli-dr Expert | 2gb OCZ DDR 400 | BFG
GeForce7800 GTX OC | Soundblaster Audigy 2 | 2 WD 74gb Raptor in Raid 0 |
Maxtor 120 gb | Ibm Deskstar 30gig

Have you actually got the drivers in Vista installed for your hard drives?

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"Frank" <Frank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FA7B8CDB-E68E-447F-9D45-34EA788A0A41@microsoft.com...
> Just got the 64bit version. I put the DVD in the drive, reboot and after
> it
> loads the initial files vista begins searching for my hdd. Problem is
> vista
> says that it dosen't recognize my hdd. Wonder if it is because they are
> runnung in raid 0. I disconnected my raid 0 hdd's and hooked up a old
> 30gig
> IMB Deskstar hdd and proceded to install with no probs. After vista was
> installed I then hooked my raid hdd's and vista saw them but as 2 seperate
> hdd's. I would really like to see how well my raid 0 array preforms under
> vista. I have the Nvidia Beta drivers for my mobo (64bit) but can't figure
> out how to install them. Any help would be great.
>
> AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ | LP UT NF4 sli-dr Expert | 2gb OCZ DDR 400 | BFG
> GeForce7800 GTX OC | Soundblaster Audigy 2 | 2 WD 74gb Raptor in Raid 0 |
> Maxtor 120 gb | Ibm Deskstar 30gig

No, but i want to run vista on my Raid array. I want to install the drivers
at setup but with my raid hdd's hooked up vista gives me the message that it
can't recognize any of my hdd, even the IBM.

"Zack Whittaker" wrote:

> Have you actually got the drivers in Vista installed for your hard drives?
>
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> Zack Whittaker
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> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not
> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
> that up!
>
> --: Original message follows :--
> "Frank" <Frank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FA7B8CDB-E68E-447F-9D45-34EA788A0A41@microsoft.com...
> > Just got the 64bit version. I put the DVD in the drive, reboot and after
> > it
> > loads the initial files vista begins searching for my hdd. Problem is
> > vista
> > says that it dosen't recognize my hdd. Wonder if it is because they are
> > runnung in raid 0. I disconnected my raid 0 hdd's and hooked up a old
> > 30gig
> > IMB Deskstar hdd and proceded to install with no probs. After vista was
> > installed I then hooked my raid hdd's and vista saw them but as 2 seperate
> > hdd's. I would really like to see how well my raid 0 array preforms under
> > vista. I have the Nvidia Beta drivers for my mobo (64bit) but can't figure
> > out how to install them. Any help would be great.
> >
> > AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ | LP UT NF4 sli-dr Expert | 2gb OCZ DDR 400 | BFG
> > GeForce7800 GTX OC | Soundblaster Audigy 2 | 2 WD 74gb Raptor in Raid 0 |
> > Maxtor 120 gb | Ibm Deskstar 30gig
>
>
>

I've got the same issues with my hard drive setup. Vista won't install when
I have drives in RAID 0, it won't even continue, nor will it give me any
debug information. I am under the assumption it's because I have RAID
enabled. But I want to install Vista on my Secondary Drive. Do I have to
disable my RAID setup and re-enable after install?

When I click on Load Drivers it tells me that I have to have the drivers on
the media install disc and that I cannot load the drivers from another
source. This is rediculous! How can I add my beta drivers for NVRAID/NFORCE
onto the Vista Beta 2 image? And why can't I choose another source to load
the drivers from?

The error I receive is something along the line of:
"Setup cannot find any information about your drives"

My systems specs:
AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ Dual-Core Skt. 939 Processor
MSI K8N Neo2-F nForce3 Ultra Skt939 DDR ATX Motherboard
Corsair XMS 2GB (2x1GB) Dual Channel (2.5/3/3/6 1T) PC-3200 DDR RAM

Hard Drives -
(Primary) Western Digital Raptor 74GB SATA 10,000rpm 8MB Cache w/NCQ
(Secondary) Maxtor 80GB SATA 7200rpm 8MB Cache w/NCQ
(RAID 0)Hitachi 160GB SATAII 7200rpm 8MB Cache
(RAID 0)Hitachi 160GB SATAII 7200rpm 8MB Cache

I've got the same issues with my hard drive setup. Vista won't install when
I have drives in RAID 0, it won't even continue, nor will it give me any
debug information. I am under the assumption it's because I have RAID
enabled. But I want to install Vista on my Secondary Drive. Do I have to
disable my RAID setup and re-enable after install?

When I click on Load Drivers it tells me that I have to have the drivers on
the media install disc and that I cannot load the drivers from another
source. This is rediculous! How can I add my beta drivers for NVRAID/NFORCE
onto the Vista Beta 2 image? And why can't I choose another source to load
the drivers from?

The error I receive is something along the line of:
"Setup cannot find any information about your drives"

My systems specs:
AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ Dual-Core Skt. 939 Processor
MSI K8N Neo2-F nForce3 Ultra Skt939 DDR ATX Motherboard
Corsair XMS 2GB (2x1GB) Dual Channel (2.5/3/3/6 1T) PC-3200 DDR RAM

Hard Drives -
(Primary) Western Digital Raptor 74GB SATA 10,000rpm 8MB Cache w/NCQ
(Secondary) Maxtor 80GB SATA 7200rpm 8MB Cache w/NCQ
(RAID 0)Hitachi 160GB SATAII 7200rpm 8MB Cache
(RAID 0)Hitachi 160GB SATAII 7200rpm 8MB Cache

i havent had these problems I "Load(ed) Drivers" or "F6ed" for my nForce Pro
chipset on a K8WE no problem.. saw both my arrays.. one 0 one 1. got the
Vista Beta drivers from nVidia's site.

"Prospero" wrote:

> I've got the same issues with my hard drive setup. Vista won't install when
> I have drives in RAID 0, it won't even continue, nor will it give me any
> debug information. I am under the assumption it's because I have RAID
> enabled. But I want to install Vista on my Secondary Drive. Do I have to
> disable my RAID setup and re-enable after install?
>
> When I click on Load Drivers it tells me that I have to have the drivers on
> the media install disc and that I cannot load the drivers from another
> source. This is rediculous! How can I add my beta drivers for NVRAID/NFORCE
> onto the Vista Beta 2 image? And why can't I choose another source to load
> the drivers from?
>
> The error I receive is something along the line of:
> "Setup cannot find any information about your drives"
>
> My systems specs:
> AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ Dual-Core Skt. 939 Processor
> MSI K8N Neo2-F nForce3 Ultra Skt939 DDR ATX Motherboard
> Corsair XMS 2GB (2x1GB) Dual Channel (2.5/3/3/6 1T) PC-3200 DDR RAM
>
> Hard Drives -
> (Primary) Western Digital Raptor 74GB SATA 10,000rpm 8MB Cache w/NCQ
> (Secondary) Maxtor 80GB SATA 7200rpm 8MB Cache w/NCQ
> (RAID 0)Hitachi 160GB SATAII 7200rpm 8MB Cache
> (RAID 0)Hitachi 160GB SATAII 7200rpm 8MB Cache

This is during setup. There is no opportunity to F6 because this is before
Vista even installs. When it searches for drives to install on the dialog
box shows all my drives (in XP).

After it has copied and extracted all the files to the drive I want to
install upon it restarts.

Upon restart the first thing it tells me is "Setup could not get information
about the disks on your computer." I've loaded the drivers for my nforce
board via the option while I was in XP, but once I reboot it won't find ANY
of my drives.

I am just upset because there seems to be a lack of feedback on why I am
receiving this error. No error code, do debug information, no log (that I'm
aware of)... I have no information to base my diagnosis upon to research.

As of now it's preventing me from installing Vista and the "Setup could not
get..." message is the only message I get.