Installing Windows 7/8 to 3TB HDD with RAID IRST SSD 64GB, problem UEFI and drivers

[vedranius]

Hi all, I spent 4 days with this, from reading many many many threads, forums outthere, trying different Windows releases, windows 7 64bit and Windows 8 64bit from professional to ultimate...

So what I want is to install Windows 7 or 8 x64 to my 3TB drive using RAID because of IRST connected with my 64GB SSD.
My MBO is Asus P8Z77-V, with latest BIOS.
I'm failling when I want to install Windows, as for example, I do everything in diskpart for converting to GPT, and OK it shows my HDD as 746GB volume, but I click install, Windows 8 installs to it, and reboots, but it doesn't goes to next part of installation, and in bios I can't choose to boot into Windows Boot Manager, or my hard drive...
Yes, I booted with UEFI and everything...
Not really sure what's going on... I asked this on overclock.net, so if you guys have some time to see that posts, and maybe you could have some ideas what to do it would be nice.
Here: http://www.overclock.net/t/1227655/...onse-technology-ssd-caching/200#post_19580490
Thank you all!
And sorry if missed some stuff here, because I'm becoming pretty crazy about this all after being awake for hours and hours trying all combinations to see if it'll work or not... :/

 

[vedranius]

SOLVED:
The problem was that I only had one HDD connected to my PC. I forgot to connect my SSD drive, and it's logical that it won't work in RAID if you only have one HDD...
So I have installed Windows 8, and everything is working fine, installed IRST, recognized the whole 3TB, and caching on SSD is working too...

But the problem is that I reconnected my other two hard drives, 1x 500GB and 1x 640GB, and Windows 8 won't boot, it's standing at black screen.
Does all hard drives needs to be formatted in GPT or? Because I think that one of the two drives is in MBR and other might be in GPT, not sure yet...
So, any suggestions?

 

[vedranius]

And, solved that problem too!
When I set up that two HDDs to be hot swapable, Windows 8 booted instantly, showing up all HDDs and all partitions that I had before!
That's it xD