Installing RAID drivers for floppy-less ASUS M4A79XTD EVO

[PansitPalabok]

I just bought an ASUS M4A79XTD EVO which doesn't come with a FDD header. I didn't know this when I bought the mobo. I usually use the FD to load RAID drivers for XP.

I found this article http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=916196 saying that XP can only recognize select USB floppies that will respond to the "press F6 to load mass storage drivers". I'm cool with that.

But I couldn't find any articles that refers to loading RAID drivers in VISTA using floppyless-mobos.

Has anyone loaded RAID drivers by USB drives or USB floppies in VISTA and succeeded?

 

[tcsenter]

Vista setup supports using USB flash/thumb drives during the install process, but XP does not. For XP, you can use NLite to integrate the RAID or AHCI drivers (text mode) into a custom install CD.

 

[lopri]

Check this guide. You can use USB thumbdrive or CD-ROM. Don't put anything else other than the RAID drivers. Quick-formatting to FAT32 and copying over the drivers will take care of it easily.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/454/1/

Once the drivers are loaded and the OS recognizes the volumes, make sure to unplug the USB thumbdrive before continuing the installation procedure.

 

[PansitPalabok]

Sweet. Thanks for the tips.