Problem setting up Raid

[bizquik]

I'm having problems enabling RAID in bios to set up 2 new hard drives for a Raid 0 Array.

My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3. I have 3 Hard drives in my system a 250GB drive which has Windows Vista x64 installed on it and working, and two empty 500GB drives. I also have a DVD drive and a DVD Burner they are all SATA.

Everything works fine until I try to enable Raid in the BIOS. Once Raid is enabled Windows will appear to start then blue screen for a flash and restart the system. there are 6 SATA headers on the motherboard the BIOS gives me the option to set the last 2 as IDE or Raid. I set them to IDE for the Optical drives, otherwise they wont be recognized.

Is there anyway I can get this to work with my current set-up?

 

[DonDon]

If you installed the OS to the one drive in IDE or Non RAID settings, it does not have the proper drivers to boot once you change the BIOS settings. You need to find out if there are separate drivers for the RAID controller at Gigabytes website, install them, then reboot and change the BIOS settings to enable RAID. You should then be able to setup your new RAID array, and install Windows on the New array, and be able to dual boot between the 2 installs.

Don

 

[bizquik]

Thanks, you were exactly right, it is the lack of a driver. I'm not trying to dual boot just wanted to make a raid array for media storage. Looks like I may have to reinstall Vista, to get the drives on there properly, unless there is a way to do it while in vista in IDE mode.

I tried booting to the install disk loading the drivers and running the windows repair but that did not fix it.