Hi
I'm having problems installing windows 7.
The problem I'm having is this. I want to install it using a RAID 0 confiuration. I have created my Raid 0 Drive using GRAID option on my Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 Motherboard.
I get all the way through (past the language/keyboard options) to where it says no drive can be found, it then gives me the option to search for the drivers. I then select 'Browse' and look for the drivers that I have saved to a USB Drive and all seems to go smoothly and my RAID drive of two 80GB Samsung drives show up as a single 149GB drive with the following info 'Disk 5 Unallocated Space' (Not sure why it is called Disk 5 as that doesn't match the name I gave to my RAID setup, I also read when searching google for this problem that Windows 7 doesn't like drives named above 4 but they didn't expand on this and as I said I don't know why it's allocated this number).
At this stage it says that it is unable to install Windows to this drive, when I click on more details it gives an error code of 0x80300001
I can only at this point choose NEW from the options (or refresh or load driver), as all the others are greyed out, If I selct NEW at this point it gives me the warning about the 100mb partition. This goes well and creates the 100mb partition as well as the remaining free space as a seperate partition labelled as before and marked Primary. I can now select either partition to be formatted or deleted.
Deleting works as you would expect, however if I click format the blue circle cursor spins for no more thane a few seconds and then stops(disappears), it doesn't say if the format was successful or not but I'm guessing not.
If I try to reload the raid drivers (either the same ones, or different ones, as unfortunately the zip file for the drivers that you extract has various different ones, I chose the drivers within a folder marked W7, seemed logical) then invariably I get a dialogue box saying no drivers were found??? (I have tried every driver by the way not just the one in the W7 folder, I get the same error message and problems with them all, and or some just aren't recognised).
If I click refresh nothing happens, just refreshes with the same error.
I have tried the following solutions from searching google, alas none have worked.
1) I have made my RAID array as the primary boot option.
2) I have checked that HDD is the first boot option.
3) It's been suggested the error code is related to simply being down to the fact that people who try to install the raid drivers are forgetting to put the install DVD back in the drive after inserting a driver CD. They suggest doing this and clicking refresh and all is solved, many people have claimed it was as simple as this for them. However in my case I never removed the DVD as the drivers are on my USB drive. Out of desperation I unplug the USB device, ejected the DVD and reloaded and clicked refresh, didn't work though.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
I'm having problems installing windows 7.
The problem I'm having is this. I want to install it using a RAID 0 confiuration. I have created my Raid 0 Drive using GRAID option on my Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 Motherboard.
I get all the way through (past the language/keyboard options) to where it says no drive can be found, it then gives me the option to search for the drivers. I then select 'Browse' and look for the drivers that I have saved to a USB Drive and all seems to go smoothly and my RAID drive of two 80GB Samsung drives show up as a single 149GB drive with the following info 'Disk 5 Unallocated Space' (Not sure why it is called Disk 5 as that doesn't match the name I gave to my RAID setup, I also read when searching google for this problem that Windows 7 doesn't like drives named above 4 but they didn't expand on this and as I said I don't know why it's allocated this number).
At this stage it says that it is unable to install Windows to this drive, when I click on more details it gives an error code of 0x80300001
I can only at this point choose NEW from the options (or refresh or load driver), as all the others are greyed out, If I selct NEW at this point it gives me the warning about the 100mb partition. This goes well and creates the 100mb partition as well as the remaining free space as a seperate partition labelled as before and marked Primary. I can now select either partition to be formatted or deleted.
Deleting works as you would expect, however if I click format the blue circle cursor spins for no more thane a few seconds and then stops(disappears), it doesn't say if the format was successful or not but I'm guessing not.
If I try to reload the raid drivers (either the same ones, or different ones, as unfortunately the zip file for the drivers that you extract has various different ones, I chose the drivers within a folder marked W7, seemed logical) then invariably I get a dialogue box saying no drivers were found??? (I have tried every driver by the way not just the one in the W7 folder, I get the same error message and problems with them all, and or some just aren't recognised).
If I click refresh nothing happens, just refreshes with the same error.
I have tried the following solutions from searching google, alas none have worked.
1) I have made my RAID array as the primary boot option.
2) I have checked that HDD is the first boot option.
3) It's been suggested the error code is related to simply being down to the fact that people who try to install the raid drivers are forgetting to put the install DVD back in the drive after inserting a driver CD. They suggest doing this and clicking refresh and all is solved, many people have claimed it was as simple as this for them. However in my case I never removed the DVD as the drivers are on my USB drive. Out of desperation I unplug the USB device, ejected the DVD and reloaded and clicked refresh, didn't work though.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.