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-toobsock-
01-13-2006, 10:51 PM
Alright here is the setup, I have 4 WD Raptors set up in a raid using a Promise Fasttrak sx4-m. My motherboard is the Elitegroup Nforce3 a939. The fasttrak bios, and my motherboard bios are set up properly for the drives. I have one more IDE drive that I am using for my windows partition, and It is working fine.

The problem is this:

When I boot to a windows cd, hitting f6 to install my raid drivers, I am able to install the drivers, but the raid doesnt show up in the drive list that follows the install. I have tried using the floppy that came with my raid card, and the floppy that came with my motherboard. Nothing.

When I am booted into windows, I have the Fasttrak drivers installed, but in my harddisk manager, the raid never shows up at all.

I have tried everything I could to fix this but have seemed to hit a dead end.

Any help would be great!
Thanks

Crosshairs
01-13-2006, 11:11 PM
Not familiar with that card, but dont you need to go into the cards BIOS and create the array first???

-toobsock-
01-13-2006, 11:38 PM
I already have created the array and it says its functional