Not recognizing raid once installed

[cerupcat]

I'm sorry if this is a repeat question. I tried searching and see the raid topic below but think my issue may be different.

 

I loaded a Vista x64 to a non RAID drive, but also have a RAID drive with partitions. I installed Vista, but the RAID drive won't show the partitions and asks to reformat. I know it's a driver thing, does anyone know which drivers I need to install. I know how to do the F6 thing when installing the OS but am not positive how to install the driver AFTER installing an OS.

 

Any suggestions on how to load and/or where to get the right x64 driver?

 

 

P.S. - It's a dual boot system (Vista and XP) and my RAID drive is obviously still fine under XP in which it was originally.

[uneedav8]

With the OS already installed that may be tough unless the raid array are on different hard drives. You can try to install the drivers by add new hardware--> SCSI or RAID controller--> have disk--> select the RAID driver inf file.....maybe it will work.

 

 

http://www.diy-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73919

[cerupcat]

That was a good Idea, but it didn't work unfortunatley. I think maybe I need a different driver (s). It won't let me even update to those drivers since it vista already detects a RAID controller.

[Redbeaver]

have you set your RAID on Boot? my array on Vista 32 was detected but becoz its not on boot it wont install there...

[cerupcat]

I'll check that, but is it needed if I'm not booting to the array? I'm booting Vista on a non-RAID drive, but also have a slave RAID drive. It shows in Vista as one Drive that isn't partitioned and needs formatting. It doesn't need to be formatted since information is still on it when I enter XP.

 

Therefore, this is probably a driver issue and I don't know what drivers I need. I'll check the BIOS boot though and see if that changes anything.

[Redbeaver]

if ur not booting to the disk/partition/array ur going to install Vista to, then Vista have to be able to recognize there exist another partition (RAID or not) that is bootable... seems like u can install Vista just fine, so theoritically it should recognize the array that is the main bootable partition that has XP on it....

 

but since ur on 64, u definitely should check on the RAID drivers from nforce/silicon...

 

but dont format it

[cerupcat]

if ur not booting to the disk/partition/array ur going to install Vista to, then Vista have to be able to recognize there exist another partition (RAID or not) that is bootable... seems like u can install Vista just fine, so theoritically it should recognize the array that is the main bootable partition that has XP on it....

 

but since ur on 64, u definitely should check on the RAID drivers from nforce/silicon...

 

but dont format it

 

Yeah, Vista is installed and everything. When I go to "my computer" it shows the Raid Drive as one drive, but there should also be a bunch of partitions. I tried installing by "adding new legacy hardware" a sata controller by nforce since known shows up, but that didn't seem to work.

 

None of the drivers I tried work. So I was looking to see if anyone knew what I'm missing. Hmm....

 

P.S. - Yeah, I definatley won't format them haha. That wouldn't be pretty.