Controller Card Drivers?

[Seekermeister]

My controller card finally arrived, and I have scanned the manual, and browsed the CD. Installing the card and it SATA/RAID drivers seem straight forward enough, but the CD contains alot of other folders, which seem to deal with various forms of USB, Bluetooth, Irda, etc., this confuses me somewhat. Do I need these to simply install MCE or x64 on the new drive?

There was also a file that appeared to be for cloning a drive, but no information about it in the manual. Can cloning software only clone a partition...not the entire drive? I would like to clone x64 to the new drive, but do a clean install of MCE.

 

[themisfit610]

What kind of controller are you talking about? You're being pretty vague

 

[DaveSimmons]

A manufacturer may sell 20 different items that need to include a driver CD. They will often make 20,000 copies of 1 shared CD instead of 1,000 copies each of 20 different CDs.

 

[Seekermeister]

Not that I imagine that it will tell you much, but it's a Creative VIA-150R SATA/PATA.

Another item that I'm unsure of, is that it says that the driver software first, if I want to include an existing drive as part of a bootable mirrored raid 1 on the controller card. The CD doesn't autorun, so you have to select from the folders what to install. The only thing that I saw that I was sure of, was a VIA folder, but that only included the VIA Raid Tool, which I do have installed previously, but of an older version. I checked add/remove programs, and it is not listed, so I don't know if it would install over the older version, or what?

This is an area that I found confusing while installing x64, because it required creating a floppy to use at F6, but the manual hasn't said anything about that. It would be simpler to figure out, if there was only one OS, but my dual boot seems to make for dual confusion.

 

[Seekermeister]

I've got the controller installed, and it appears in the Device Manager, after having the New Found Hardware wizard search for a driver. I found one already on the system, which I assume is from the onboard raid. However, the new harddrive does not appear anywhere. I haven't installed anything off the CD which came with the controller, but I think that is the next step. But, before going ahead, I would like to have confirmation of the correct procedure. I would have thought that if Windows saw the controller, that it would also see the harddrive, but I guess not.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Did you check in Admin Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management?

 

[Seekermeister]

Yes, it's not there either.

 

[Seekermeister]

Nevermind, the power plug had fallen out. I'm going to have to get some new cables with locking clips.