Problem Installing OS! on raid 0

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I have a raid 0 on my pc, after I select the raid drivers for my raid controller, it then loads for a few seconds and gives me this msg;

Please insert the disk labeled
Windows XP Home edition CD-ROM
Into drive A
*Press enter when ready

What am I supposed to do? I do have the win xp home edition in my cd-rom, but what am i suppoed to insurt to the drive A? i dont remember any floppy drives to be with my os...

Thanks
 
You need to slipstream the RAID drivers from the motherboard CD into the XP cd. Look up nLite for an easy way to do that.
 
Carefully bend the cdrom into a taco shape. If it snaps in two, that is OK. Then carefully insert the CD into the floppy drive. If the pieces do not go all the way into the drive, kick it hard with your foot until the CD pieces are flush with the floppy drive bezel. Then get out your digital camera and post a picture of you handiwork for us to enjoy. ;)

Just when you think you've heard it all, Microshaft pulls this one on us. :rolleyes: I would try it again. If you created a floppy with the Raid drivers, try it again with a different diskette. If the floppy came with the mobo, try creating one from the driver cd that came with it. For my new Asus mobo, if you boot from the driver CD, it starts a program that will create the floppy for you.

I have had flaky driver diskettes cause weird problems in the past. If it can't find a particular file, it may be trying to get the file off of the Windoz CD.... via the floppy. Nice one Bill!

Don
 
DonDon said:
Just when you think you've heard it all, Microshaft pulls this one on us. :rolleyes: I would try it again. If you created a floppy with the Raid drivers, try it again with a different diskette. If the floppy came with the mobo, try creating one from the driver cd that came with it. For my new Asus mobo, if you boot from the driver CD, it starts a program that will create the floppy for you.

I have had flaky driver diskettes cause weird problems in the past. If it can't find a particular file, it may be trying to get the file off of the Windoz CD.... via the floppy. Nice one Bill!



Don
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Very doubtful it has anything to do with Microsoft. it's been done this way sense NT4, I would more blame user error or the drivers themselves.


Anyways try again to make the disk.
 
No, I do blame Microshaft for requiring the use of the floppy drive when many systems do not come with one anymore. They are too damn lazy to update their installation routines.:mad: Freakin 1U servers still have to squeeze a floppy drive in there to load the disk controller drivers.

But hey, according to them, who would want to use an outdated OS like Windoz XP anyway. Everyone should cough up their 1-2 hundred bux and update today!

Don
 
Thank you all for ur help.

I fixed the problem. I had 2 options for my rraid drivers. The original I i choised was some like "Intel ICH9R raid drivres" and thats when i gat the windoes msg. I then tryed the other one "Intel ICH8/ICH9R" and that one worked.

Cheers
 
DonDon said:
No, I do blame Microshaft for requiring the use of the floppy drive when many systems do not come with one anymore. They are too damn lazy to update their installation routines.:mad: Freakin 1U servers still have to squeeze a floppy drive in there to load the disk controller drivers.

But hey, according to them, who would want to use an outdated OS like Windoz XP anyway. Everyone should cough up their 1-2 hundred bux and update today!

Don
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You must remember that Windows XP is like 8 years old. I am not saying that it should have had other options to load drivers, But, as it is Vista and all "CURRENT" Windows OS's are not strapped to the floppy drive.

*UPDATE,

Still would have not mattered as the end user did not use the correct driver option, still would have not worked in this case...
 
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