Need help with win2k install + 2hd RAID

[Charles1986]

Good morning Windows Forums,

I came accross this board as my last hope sadly!

Let me give you a quick backgrournd of what i am trying to accomplish to put you guys in Scene.

I started this new job for a company , the boss would like me to install Win2k on this new machine he got built. Simple so far. But the thing is he has this set up as a Raid with 2 hard drives. Im guessing from what i have read that it is Either Raid 0 or 1... no way to tell for sure... OK. So I start the installation says it cant find a Drive installed. So i start wondering probably i need a boot disk, fine, i get a Floppy ( a: ) pop in the Motherboard cd in another computer and use the Make disk selection, Motherboard= P5LD2 ASUS. I have many options but since its Win2k I basically only have 2 options:

Make Intel ICH7 32 bit RAID Driver Disk

Make Silicon Image 32 bit RAID Driver Disk.

I have tried both and failed. I called up the person who made the comp he said he will e-mail me the boot disk as a zip. Hurray!! I get the e-mail extract to a Floppy now when i press F6 for installation of Raid drivers , i get this option

ITE IT8211 ATA ATAPI Controller Win2k

Still no luck. Comes out with Nothing found.

Now. When i made the disk of ICH7 I was able to get past the installation and actually install windows, the only backdraw with that was that i was stuck with a blue screen saying I had an Innaccessible Boot Device, once I rebooted after doing the regional Settings.

Im really fresh out of ideas and maybe i just need a different perspective on this RAID installation.

Sorry i wrote so much, but there was no other way to explain hehe.

Thanks for your time, and help.

Sincerly

Charles.

Edit: Aswell if i am approaching this raid installation all wrong please tell me, i have never done this before. How exactly do i install Win2k on a harddrive that is raided?

Edit2:

Processor = Pentium D Processor 830+

3Ghz, 800 MHz FSB 2MB L2 Cache... dunno if it helps its that new dual core (hyper threading i believe)

[-pops-]

Hello charles and welcome to WF.

I can't answer your question myself but there are others on here who know about W2K and about RAID so, we most likely will be able to help.

Give us some time as several members are in other time zones and may not have seen you query yet.

[Scarecrow Man]

You are doing everything fine. Your problem lies in your third party RAID or SCSI drivers.

When windows boots, you are asked to press F6 to install third party drivers. Do this and locate your drivers.

As you said, you have tried the drivers, but it did not work.

My next question would be are you using the onboard SATA or a Promise card? If you are using a promise card, the drivers will come with the hardware. If you are using onboard, the drivers will come with the motherboard.

Other than that, I cannot figure out why this is not working. Perhaps you can just delete the RAID and use the drives independantly, and set up Dynamic Disks once windows is installed.

[Charles1986]

Other than that, I cannot figure out why this is not working. Perhaps you can just delete the RAID and use the drives independantly, and set up Dynamic Disks once windows is installed.

How do i do this? Will this be the same thing with the end result?

Well on a side note I used the Motherboards drivers was able to format NTSF , install windows start doing updates then rebooted due to the updates and now i am not able to login anymore i enter Administrator, password and it doesnt load. So basically i ready to throw this expensive , good computer out the window lol...

I think im gonna have to go with removing RAID (dont know how) and just installing windows standard and then with windows installed set up Dynamic Disks... which i have no idea how to do.

Hopefully you experts can help me out hehe :D