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Vista Install Issue

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MoFunk

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I bought Vista home premium to put on my HTPC, but the Nvidia video drivers made me go back to XP on that machine. So I want to load that copy on my main rig. So after backing up all my important data I booted off the dvd to do my fresh install. But I am running a raid0 drive setup and Vista only saw one drive. So I pop in the raid drivers to load them and Vista still only sees one drive. So I decide to just try and do an upgrade; cant do that either because I am running XP pro and I can upgrade from that to Home Premium.

Sheesh, what are my options. The motherboard is a DFI lanparty with nforce raid controller. I tried looking for updated drivers but they are either not out there or I totally overlooked them, It was late last night so I am pretty sure I just didn't look long and hard enough.

Anyway, anyone have any idea's? I don't want to have to buy Vista Ultimate after I have purchased home premium. I also don't really want to lose the ability to run my drive in raid0.
 
The "one drive" that Vista saw with the RAID drivers wasn't the whole RAID0 array, by any chance?

If not, try the "RAID Floppy Disk Install" link on this page to extract nVidia's SATA RAID drivers from the driver package also available there.

Any good? 😕
 
That is correct, it saw only one drive in my raid0 array. I will give this a shot, but my board is an nforce3 board, which I failed to mention. But I will see if this works anyway tonight when I get home.

Thanks.
 
Tried these drivers and Vista still only sees one drive in the array.

Will this work - I attach a single drive to my system, use that as my boot drive and install vista to that, make an image with true image, then restore that image to my raid0 array and make the array my boot drive again. Kind of a pain in the butt, but it seems like it should work no?
 
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