Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit Aopen AX4SPE Max- running latest BIOS update RAM 4 GB (Windows only sees 3.5GB which I expected) P4 2.6 GHZ 425 Watt PSU 2- SATA WD 320GB 1- SATA WD 120GB BFG - GeForce 7300 GT (My other headache the 191.07 driver is flaky) DVD-RW drive Tried disabling my anti-virus just to make sure it wasn't something stupid like that but I am scratching my head regarding next steps. I do have an older set up and was considering buying a RAID card and trying that to see if it works. I do not have any luck getting DISKPART to do anything with it either. I have gone to the command prompt as Administrator by right clicking CMD and selecting to run as administrator before launching it. It will not create a Striped Volume or Spanned Volume nor will it format in any of the forms it will let me set it up as. After Installing Windows 7 on the 3rd Drive (Non-RAID) I can see the RAID drive in Disk Management and set it to create a simple volume or make it a Dynamic Disk and create a simple volume.
It is set up in my BIOS, I can get to CNTRL+S and set it up as an array, it shows the set up array after leaving the RAID configuration utility and can get the Windows 7 installation to load the Sil3112A driver for the RAID controller, the drive shows up in the list but I cannot format it, install Windows on it or otherwise access it.
I too had to resort to installing Windows 7 on a drive other than the RAID 0 drive that I wanted to install it on.
My set up: BIOS version 1.9 Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit MSI K9A2 Platinum Phenom II x4 965 (140W) 8 GB DDR 800 Toshiba 300 GB 15k SAS (booting off the Promise controller) 2x Hitachi 2 TB SATA (RAID mirror) PNY 8800 GT ASUS DVD Burner Note: I had problems with a SATA CD/DVD burner (ASUS DRW-2014L1T) reading the install DVD (probably needed the driver above) so I connected an IDE CD/DVD burner and the install worked. I chose folders: Vista_ATI_Chipset, Packages, Drivers, SBDrv, SB6xx, RAID, 圆4, the AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller, and Next I repeated this for the AMD RAID Console In the "Where do you want to Install Windows?" window, I selected the drive I wanted to install Windows 7 on and clicked Next. I repeated this for the Promise Raid console. 47, amd64, OK, the Promise FastTrak PDC42819 Controller, and Next.
Vista Promise SATA Raid Driver "promise_PDC42819_sataraid_vista_mb.zip" ( ) ATI System Drivers for RS690/RD780/RD790/RX780/RX780/RS740/SB600/SB7xx "Vista_ATI_Chipset.zip" ( ) I chose Load Driver on the Install Windows screen and Browse: Removable Disk (F:) (your drive may differ). I unzipped the following files and put the folders on a memory stick I used for the install. In the BIOS: Integrated Peripherals: Extra RAID Controller Integrated Peripherals: On-Chip ATA Devices: On-Chip SATA Controller Integrated Peripherals: On-Chip ATA Devices: RAID mode (reboot after changing RAID configuraton, then set boot order before installing Windows 7) Advanced BIOS Features: Boot Sequence: 1st Boot Device: Advanced BIOS Features: Boot Sequence: 2nd Boot Device: Advanced BIOS Features: Boot Sequence: 3rd Boot Device: Set up your RAID confirguation from the boot prompts (Ctrl-F). I have just completed a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit OEI DSP on a K9A2 Platinum.
Let me know if you need any other information, and thanks in advance for the help. I'm installing Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit from a DVD I burned of a downloaded ISO.
Here's my hardware: MSI K9A2 Platinum Mobo AMD Phenom X4 Radeon Sapphire graphics Seagate Barracuda 500GB x2 WD Caviar Black 640GB x2 (RAID 0) Another two Seagate drives, not sure which.
System BIOS and RAID bios both recognize the discs every time, and when I boot to XP, I can also see every disc. I have also tried changing my BIOS settings from RAID to AHCI, as well as swapping the HDD to various SATA ports on the mobo (1-4 are for either RAID or AHCI/SATA, 5-6 are on a second RAID controller). I have tried grabbing the motherboard's Windows 7 drivers from MSI's website for the motherboard (MSI K9A2 Platinum, ATI SB600 chipset), but the Windows 7 installer doesn't find any "valid signed drivers" and won't proceed.
XP Pro will boot fine from these drives, but Windows 7 setup does not see them at all. These include a RAID 0 setup that currently holds my XP Pro install. I have since tried this with 6 different HDDs to no avail, in RAID, JBOD, and SATA configs. I originally tried to set this up as a SATA drive previous to my Windows 7 install, and BIOS recognized it fine, but when I (finally) get to the step where you pick a drive to install to, nothing appears. The HDD was previously part of a RAID 0 array, but is now an unformatted blank drive. Hello, I am trying to make a clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium on an empty Seagate Barracuda HDD.