Installing Mass storage RAID drivers. -How to-


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As you have probably noticed, Windows Vista doesn't reconise the current mass storage drivers (or at least most of them). To fix this is pretty simple.

Take your driver disk (the one you usually use when F6'ing) and copy it to a folder somewhere.

open the folder and look for your specific drivers. Take the .sys, .cat and .inf file and copy them back to a blank floppy (or cd/dvd/usb flash drive)

Vista doesn't use the TXTSETUP.OEM file which our drivers use at the minute, and also doesn't appear to check within folders on your driver disk so just make sure the drivers are on the root of the disk in no folders.

Its that simple, windows vista will now recognise and list all the different devices contained within your drivers, just select the correct one and install.

note: i can't guarentee it will work for you, but it certianly works for my intel 82801ER ICH5R controller (onboard Abit IC7-max3 mobo's) and is likely to work for any.

(Doesn't appear to work with nvidia drivers, they like to make things more complicated :p)

Edited by rovman
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i already tried it that way with nvidia raid. but setup keeps telling me then after i try to load the driver (it gave me the list and i click next) that msimg32.dll was missing and the driver could not be installed. any ideas?

i have to use the driver as i have a raid 0 running on my a8nsli mobo

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Is there any chance somebody could upload their current nvidia RAID drivers.

Just the disk that you would have previosuly used in the F6 portion of windows XP setup.

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I need a favour from someone running a Windows XP system with an nVidia RAID controller (and is actually using the RAID functionality).

Could you open regedit and do a search for this string

{4D36E97B-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

When you find it export that whole key, then open the reg file you exported and post it on here.

Thanks if anyone can do it.

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I run XP with raid 0 drives nvidia with A8N-SLI . Here's the whole .reg file , converted to .txt :yes:

Very interested about the result !!!

rovman save our lives !!!! .... :woot:

regards , anael

nvidiaraid.txt

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Damnit, they just had to be different :/ I needed the PCI Identifier strings but nvidia decided to use a different method rather than storing the strings in the registry.

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You know I can also post the exact content of the A:\ Floppy I used to install on XP .

Here is it ... copying A:\ ... zipping file ... joining ... humm , zip is too big , splitting in 2, you have to get the 2 files , replace .bmp by .rar , then join the 2 rar . Inside are the drivers . Sorry , couldn't have a mirror - unique attachement would fail :crazy:

Good luck with nVidia mass storage ....

Regards ,

nar

Sata_RAID_Drivers.part1.bmp

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How did you get it to work!?

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i have put the cat, sys and inf file on root of a floppy then used the load driver button and choosed VIA SATA RAID

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