I have followed all the recommended steps using RC1 x64 version of Nvidia
drivers the raid class controller will not load. I can see the drives however
according to Vista they need to be formatted - no way I say - not going to
lose 200gigs of files.
I have tried Beta 2 drivers no go.
Details:
Motherboard is Asus A8N-SLI Premium
Using only Nvidia Raid in bios
Loaded Vista RC1 from XP Pro x64 used RC1 nvidia raid/ide drivers during
install and the OS took those drivers fine.

Any ideas would be appreciated
RogerB

Is the drive partitioned or do you have a spare drive ?. At this stage in
development Vista should be installed in its own partition.

If the 200 GB of files are important consider carefully whether you should
load Vista on that PC and/or make sure they are backed up.

A number of people have had problems installing Vista on an nVidia board.
The vista IDE drivers do not work but most can install using the WinXP
drivers. See other postings for details. Note that the RC1 nForce IDE
drivers have been withdrawn - I got BSODs when I used them.

Brian


"RogerB" <RogerB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5D002008-A0F4-47B2-9503-E38121618487@microsoft.com...
>I have followed all the recommended steps using RC1 x64 version of Nvidia
> drivers the raid class controller will not load. I can see the drives
> however
> according to Vista they need to be formatted - no way I say - not going to
> lose 200gigs of files.
> I have tried Beta 2 drivers no go.
> Details:
> Motherboard is Asus A8N-SLI Premium
> Using only Nvidia Raid in bios
> Loaded Vista RC1 from XP Pro x64 used RC1 nvidia raid/ide drivers during
> install and the OS took those drivers fine.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated
> RogerB

"Brian P Fielding" wrote:

> Is the drive partitioned or do you have a spare drive ?. At this stage in
> development Vista should be installed in its own partition.
>
> If the 200 GB of files are important consider carefully whether you should
> load Vista on that PC and/or make sure they are backed up.
>
> A number of people have had problems installing Vista on an nVidia board.
> The vista IDE drivers do not work but most can install using the WinXP
> drivers. See other postings for details. Note that the RC1 nForce IDE
> drivers have been withdrawn - I got BSODs when I used them.
>
> Brian
>
>
> "RogerB" <RogerB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5D002008-A0F4-47B2-9503-E38121618487@microsoft.com...
> >I have followed all the recommended steps using RC1 x64 version of Nvidia
> > drivers the raid class controller will not load. I can see the drives
> > however
> > according to Vista they need to be formatted - no way I say - not going to
> > lose 200gigs of files.
> > I have tried Beta 2 drivers no go.
> > Details:
> > Motherboard is Asus A8N-SLI Premium
> > Using only Nvidia Raid in bios
> > Loaded Vista RC1 from XP Pro x64 used RC1 nvidia raid/ide drivers during
> > install and the OS took those drivers fine.
> >
> > Any ideas would be appreciated
> > RogerB
>
> RC1 has its own partition on a SATA Raptor drive JBOD. The other drives in raid 0 are for XPx64 and storage. I cant see these due to driver failure.
Anyway thanks I will keep a lookout for news but will try the XP drivers
again.
Roger
>