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NVRAID floppy and Windows Setup

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Speedler

Junior Member
Hello all,

Trying to get into Windows setup with a Nforce4 Raid (the black ports from a A8N-SLI) of 2 250GB WD Caviars. The drives are detected fine by the BIOS and RAID utility and I've set up a striping array with the two drives. When I boot up, it displays the array as healthy.

So I went ahead and made the preinstall setup disk for Setup
The problem is when I try to install the preinstall drivers from Windows setup. I made the driver disk with the makeboot.exe program from the ASUS CD for Windows XP 32.

After starting Windows Setup, I pressed F6 and after a while, the prompt to add the drivers came on. I pressed S and put in the floppy, the floppy light comes on, and the computer reads it for about 5 seconds. But it gives me the same prompt "Please insert the disk labeled Manufacturer-supplied hardware support disk into drive A:"

Any ideas on what could be wrong? Maybe the drivers on the ASUS CD is out of date?
 
Don't have this board so I can't be an instant help, but nobody else is yet.

I'm not sure what the makeboot.exe program was making a disk for. Makeboot is used primarily for making bootable disks, but it's really just writing a disk image. What folder on the CD was it, and what file was being used for the image? Drivers ought to be able to just be copied to a floppy. Did you look at the disk to see what files were on it?

The drivers being not-so-new should not prevent it from being usable for Windows Setup. It's possible you may just have a bad floppy disk, they aren't exactly the most reliable products ever.

You can get the most recent drivers here: http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=A8N-SLI

I just downloaded the drivers. That's a REALLY stupid way to provide drivers to people. You can only create a floppy using the makeboot program, instead of being able to just see the drivers.

Anyway it sounds like perhaps you used the wrong set of drivers. There's a set for SATARAID and PATARAID. Make sure you used makeboot for the proper one. If not that, then I would say maybe a bad floppy.
 
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