Dualboot Vista/XP on Nforce 3 RAID O.

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I have a Windows XP installed on a 10gb partition in a RAID 0 array.

Made a second 20gb partition on same array, NTFS formatted.

I want to install x86 Vista Ultimate on the second partition in the array for dualbooting.
was able to manually select the nf3 raid drivers from my USB Flash Drive.

Note that I'm trying all this from within Windows XP, and the Vista installer was able to copy files and download updates onto the 2nd partition

Problem:
I get blue screens on 1st boot.
I know I'm using the wrong RAID drivers as this was the same problem I used to have with Windows XP when I first installed it on the array, floppy disk problem and all, only worked with the drivers slipstreamed onto my installer.

So my question is can I dualboot XP and Vista on an NF3 Raid 0 Array, or can Vista even be installed on the same at all?

I'm quite sure there isn't an official NF3 Raid driver for Vista, so I'm kinda lookin for a workaround or maybe an unofficial driver that works with Vista.

I've read that Vista supports NF3 Raid by default, yeah it does, but you cannot boot from your RAID array.

Any help appreciated. :)
 
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