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Hi all!

I'm trying to setup my computer to use two Hitachi Deskstars (SATA, 80gb) to work in Raid0. The system worked perfectly before and I've made no hardware changes.

I've succesfully managed to setup the raid0 in the bios, however during windows install, in the part where you can create/delete partitions it says: "Unknown Disk (There is no disk in this drive)" So the two hdds are recognised as one disk, but I'm not able to install windows on them.

I've searched the internet and I think the problem has to do with the SATA/Raid drivers. I have a floppy with SATA/Raid drivers and I press F6 during the start of the installation, but I've experienced during previous installations of Windows that they are installed after the part where you can create/delete partitions. So that's the problem. How can I make the windows installation recognise my raid0 setup? Could slipstreaming be an option? Maby an easier/quicker solution?

Some specs:
MSI k8n SLI Platinum mobo
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
2 MSI Geforce 6600gt's running in sli
2 gb ram
2 Hitachi Deskstars 80gb (SATA)

Thanks in advance!

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Deathstars!!

Go to a working computer- download the drivers and have them in a folder. Now open Nero or another CD burning program.

Read this: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/H [...] stallation

Install Windows as normal.


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