Please Help, OS not detecting HDD's in Raid

[HK-Viper1-]

Hello,

I just purchased everything new, installed & posted

Asus P5e
CPU Core 2 Q6600 2.4ghz
Corsair Dominator 4gbs 1066
Western Digital Raptors 2 x 74gbs in Raid-0
Western Digital 7200 rpms 2 x 320gbs in Raid-0
BFG 8800GTX OC 768 mbs
PC Power & Cooling PSU 610w
LG DVD Reader/writers 2
OS XP Pro SP2c 32bit
BIOS v0203

I set the hard drives in raid-0 after pressing Ctrl+I. The 2 raptors 74gbs for OS & the 2 320gbs for storage as well in raid-0. I did not know what Volume0 name to give them & if it really mattered so I named the rapters R0 & the 2 storage R01. In the Bios Main Configuration I set the Sata Configuration as RAID. I do not have a Floppy so in the Boot Device Priority Menu I set the Master DVD 1st & the os RAID:Intel R0 HDD 2nd. Everything else is default.

I am trying to install WIndows & after it loads files the Welcome to Setup appears, I hit enter to continue it says Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer.

I later went back in to the BIOS and set everything back to Default and then loaded windows to the 1st unpartioned drive and it took it. I then did the above all over again and it warned me after reconfiguring the drives in RAID-0 that all data would be erased. That is OK because I want these drives in RAID-0 & i knew I would have to reinstall windows.

I checked all connections to drives & MB. I do not know what else to do from here.

Please Help.....

 

[Tigerbiten]

It sounds like you need to load the raid drivers before Windoze will see the hard drives.
You should have a floppy with the drivers on which came with your mobo.
When the install starts hit "F6" when it tells you to so you can load the drivers off the floppy.

Luck ................

 

[HK-Viper1-]

Thank You Tigerbiten,

You were correct. I pulled out a floppy from another pc I have and plugged it in to the P5e. I copied drivers and it is loading windows now.. Thank You for your quick response....

 

[HK-Viper1-]

Ok now that windows is installed I can only see the (C Drive. How can I mak the (D Drive appear....

Thanks again...