Vista Tutorial - Loading SATA RAID Drivers on BOOT?

I cannot find where to specify drivers for my Nvidia SATA RAID Controller
when booting from my Windows Vista Beta 2 x64 DVD.

Where can I specify these drivers when booting form the disc? The drives are
already formatted (NTFS) and the array is set.

When Vista presents the drives\partions available to load the OS to this is
when you can insert the RAID drivers. It's been awhile so I don't remember
exactly the procedure. Possible just the refresh selections.

"John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:70E37AB2-7A3E-430E-811A-837ACD6A6C4F@microsoft.com...
>I cannot find where to specify drivers for my Nvidia SATA RAID Controller
> when booting from my Windows Vista Beta 2 x64 DVD.
>
> Where can I specify these drivers when booting form the disc? The drives
> are
> already formatted (NTFS) and the array is set.

It never gets to that point. All I get is the error that it cannot read my
drive information (or something like that, I can't remember specificly).

"Mark W Scheidell" wrote:

> When Vista presents the drives\partions available to load the OS to this is
> when you can insert the RAID drivers. It's been awhile so I don't remember
> exactly the procedure. Possible just the refresh selections.
>
> "John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:70E37AB2-7A3E-430E-811A-837ACD6A6C4F@microsoft.com...
> >I cannot find where to specify drivers for my Nvidia SATA RAID Controller
> > when booting from my Windows Vista Beta 2 x64 DVD.
> >
> > Where can I specify these drivers when booting form the disc? The drives
> > are
> > already formatted (NTFS) and the array is set.
>

John wrote:

> It never gets to that point. All I get is the error that it cannot
> read my drive information (or something like that, I can't remember
> specificly).


You may be having the problem I've been having (although I've been trying to
install the 32-bit version). I boot from the DVD and I get to the Screen
with "Install Windows" in the Title bar. In the middle of the screen it says
Windows Vista

Install now

And on the bottom there are two choices:

What to know bewfore installing Windows

System recovery options.

As soon as I click Install now, I get the message "Setup could not get
information about the disks on your computer."

May I ask what motherboard you have?

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup



> "Mark W Scheidell" wrote:
>
>> When Vista presents the drives\partions available to load the OS to
>> this is when you can insert the RAID drivers. It's been awhile so I
>> don't remember exactly the procedure. Possible just the refresh
>> selections.
>>
>> "John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:70E37AB2-7A3E-430E-811A-837ACD6A6C4F@microsoft.com...
>>> I cannot find where to specify drivers for my Nvidia SATA RAID
>>> Controller when booting from my Windows Vista Beta 2 x64 DVD.
>>>
>>> Where can I specify these drivers when booting form the disc? The
>>> drives are
>>> already formatted (NTFS) and the array is set.

That is exactly what happens for me as well.

I have eVGA's 133-K8-NF41-AX (nForce4 SLI chipset).


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:


> You may be having the problem I've been having (although I've been trying to
> install the 32-bit version). I boot from the DVD and I get to the Screen
> with "Install Windows" in the Title bar. In the middle of the screen it says
> Windows Vista
>
> Install now
>
> And on the bottom there are two choices:
>
> What to know bewfore installing Windows
>
> System recovery options.
>
> As soon as I click Install now, I get the message "Setup could not get
> information about the disks on your computer."
>
> May I ask what motherboard you have?
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
>

That is exactly what happens to me.

I'm using EVGA's 133-K8-NF41-AX (nForce4 SLI Chipset)

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

> John wrote:
>
> > It never gets to that point. All I get is the error that it cannot
> > read my drive information (or something like that, I can't remember
> > specificly).
>
>
> You may be having the problem I've been having (although I've been trying to
> install the 32-bit version). I boot from the DVD and I get to the Screen
> with "Install Windows" in the Title bar. In the middle of the screen it says
> Windows Vista
>
> Install now
>
> And on the bottom there are two choices:
>
> What to know bewfore installing Windows
>
> System recovery options.
>
> As soon as I click Install now, I get the message "Setup could not get
> information about the disks on your computer."
>
> May I ask what motherboard you have?
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
>
> > "Mark W Scheidell" wrote:
> >
> >> When Vista presents the drives\partions available to load the OS to
> >> this is when you can insert the RAID drivers. It's been awhile so I
> >> don't remember exactly the procedure. Possible just the refresh
> >> selections.
> >>
> >> "John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:70E37AB2-7A3E-430E-811A-837ACD6A6C4F@microsoft.com...
> >>> I cannot find where to specify drivers for my Nvidia SATA RAID
> >>> Controller when booting from my Windows Vista Beta 2 x64 DVD.
> >>>
> >>> Where can I specify these drivers when booting form the disc? The
> >>> drives are
> >>> already formatted (NTFS) and the array is set.
>
>
>

John wrote:

> That is exactly what happens for me as well.
>
> I have eVGA's 133-K8-NF41-AX (nForce4 SLI chipset).


My motherboard is a different one (MSI K8N Neo4) but it has the same
chipset. The people I've been talking to about that I trust think it's an
issue with the motherboard/chipset. I've also tried installing Vista from
within Windows XP on a separate partition ins a dual-boot scenario, but that
doesn't work either. Everything seemed to be going OK. It accepted the
driver diskette, then gave me a message about a missing SCSI driver. Since I
have no SCSI devices, I told it to go ahead anyway. It went through copying
files, then rebooted.
But rebooting resulted in a blue screen, which repeated when I tried
rebooting again.



If you, or anyone else here, has any other suggestions for me to try, I'm
all ears.


--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup



> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>
>
>> You may be having the problem I've been having (although I've been
>> trying to install the 32-bit version). I boot from the DVD and I get
>> to the Screen with "Install Windows" in the Title bar. In the middle
>> of the screen it says Windows Vista
>>
>> Install now
>>
>> And on the bottom there are two choices:
>>
>> What to know bewfore installing Windows
>>
>> System recovery options.
>>
>> As soon as I click Install now, I get the message "Setup could not
>> get information about the disks on your computer."
>>
>> May I ask what motherboard you have?
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>> Please reply to the newsgroup

I finally got Vista x64 going by installing WinXP Pro x64 first with nLite
(http://www.nliteos.com/). I had to use nLite with Pro x64 becuase of
problems with the RAID drivers being replaced by older drivers when the XP
install rebooted. After installing Win XP Pro x64, I installed Vista x64
using this walk through:
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/vist...500dfd10ae7215

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

> John wrote:
>
> > That is exactly what happens for me as well.
> >
> > I have eVGA's 133-K8-NF41-AX (nForce4 SLI chipset).
>
>
> My motherboard is a different one (MSI K8N Neo4) but it has the same
> chipset. The people I've been talking to about that I trust think it's an
> issue with the motherboard/chipset. I've also tried installing Vista from
> within Windows XP on a separate partition ins a dual-boot scenario, but that
> doesn't work either. Everything seemed to be going OK. It accepted the
> driver diskette, then gave me a message about a missing SCSI driver. Since I
> have no SCSI devices, I told it to go ahead anyway. It went through copying
> files, then rebooted.
> But rebooting resulted in a blue screen, which repeated when I tried
> rebooting again.
>
>
>
> If you, or anyone else here, has any other suggestions for me to try, I'm
> all ears.
>
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
>
> > "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
> >
> >
> >> You may be having the problem I've been having (although I've been
> >> trying to install the 32-bit version). I boot from the DVD and I get
> >> to the Screen with "Install Windows" in the Title bar. In the middle
> >> of the screen it says Windows Vista
> >>
> >> Install now
> >>
> >> And on the bottom there are two choices:
> >>
> >> What to know bewfore installing Windows
> >>
> >> System recovery options.
> >>
> >> As soon as I click Install now, I get the message "Setup could not
> >> get information about the disks on your computer."
> >>
> >> May I ask what motherboard you have?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> >> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
>

John wrote:

> I finally got Vista x64 going by installing WinXP Pro x64 first with
> nLite (http://www.nliteos.com/). I had to use nLite with Pro x64
> becuase of problems with the RAID drivers being replaced by older
> drivers when the XP install rebooted. After installing Win XP Pro
> x64, I installed Vista x64 using this walk through:
> http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/vist...500dfd10ae7215



Thanks. I'll look at this.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup


>
> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>
>> John wrote:
>>
>>> That is exactly what happens for me as well.
>>>
>>> I have eVGA's 133-K8-NF41-AX (nForce4 SLI chipset).
>>
>>
>> My motherboard is a different one (MSI K8N Neo4) but it has the same
>> chipset. The people I've been talking to about that I trust think
>> it's an issue with the motherboard/chipset. I've also tried
>> installing Vista from within Windows XP on a separate partition ins
>> a dual-boot scenario, but that doesn't work either. Everything
>> seemed to be going OK. It accepted the driver diskette, then gave me
>> a message about a missing SCSI driver. Since I have no SCSI devices,
>> I told it to go ahead anyway. It went through copying files, then
>> rebooted.
>> But rebooting resulted in a blue screen, which repeated when I tried
>> rebooting again.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you, or anyone else here, has any other suggestions for me to
>> try, I'm all ears.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>> Please reply to the newsgroup
>>
>>
>>
>>> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> You may be having the problem I've been having (although I've been
>>>> trying to install the 32-bit version). I boot from the DVD and I
>>>> get to the Screen with "Install Windows" in the Title bar. In the
>>>> middle of the screen it says Windows Vista
>>>>
>>>> Install now
>>>>
>>>> And on the bottom there are two choices:
>>>>
>>>> What to know bewfore installing Windows
>>>>
>>>> System recovery options.
>>>>
>>>> As soon as I click Install now, I get the message "Setup could not
>>>> get information about the disks on your computer."
>>>>
>>>> May I ask what motherboard you have?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>>>> Please reply to the newsgroup

I have the exact same problem but I have an Abit AW8-MAX 3rd Eye II. With an
Intel 955x Chipset. So it can't be about just the chipset/mainboard. I am not
using any RAID arrays and I have three drives only one of which is
partitioned right in half. I read in some forums on the internet people
mentioning that the setup spits out the "setup could not get the information
about the disks on your computer" error when you have partitions. This is
extremely frustrating because its obvious that lots of people have this
problem but I have yet to find one with a response from Microsoft in these
forums.

Whats going on guys. How about some help. 1/2 of the user base for this
operation will probably have some form of SATA/RAID/ or partitions on their
computer. If this is a common problem than it needs to be remedied.

"John" wrote:

> That is exactly what happens to me.
>
> I'm using EVGA's 133-K8-NF41-AX (nForce4 SLI Chipset)
>
> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>
> > John wrote:
> >
> > > It never gets to that point. All I get is the error that it cannot
> > > read my drive information (or something like that, I can't remember
> > > specificly).
> >
> >
> > You may be having the problem I've been having (although I've been trying to
> > install the 32-bit version). I boot from the DVD and I get to the Screen
> > with "Install Windows" in the Title bar. In the middle of the screen it says
> > Windows Vista
> >
> > Install now
> >
> > And on the bottom there are two choices:
> >
> > What to know bewfore installing Windows
> >
> > System recovery options.
> >
> > As soon as I click Install now, I get the message "Setup could not get
> > information about the disks on your computer."
> >
> > May I ask what motherboard you have?
> >
> > --
> > Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> > Please reply to the newsgroup
> >
> >
> >
> > > "Mark W Scheidell" wrote:
> > >
> > >> When Vista presents the drives\partions available to load the OS to
> > >> this is when you can insert the RAID drivers. It's been awhile so I
> > >> don't remember exactly the procedure. Possible just the refresh
> > >> selections.
> > >>
> > >> "John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > >> news:70E37AB2-7A3E-430E-811A-837ACD6A6C4F@microsoft.com...
> > >>> I cannot find where to specify drivers for my Nvidia SATA RAID
> > >>> Controller when booting from my Windows Vista Beta 2 x64 DVD.
> > >>>
> > >>> Where can I specify these drivers when booting form the disc? The
> > >>> drives are
> > >>> already formatted (NTFS) and the array is set.
> >
> >
> >