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Windows 7 raid drivers?

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gkorjax

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Hi, I've tried searching through the forums but I am not having much luck about this issue.

I'm currently using xp. I have a gigabyte ma790xt-ud4p motherboard , an am3 board.

I have purchased windows 7. I should receive my two samsung spinpoint f3 in the next few hours. I want to set up windows 7 in a raid 0 with these two disks. I've watched quite a few videos about setting it up and have read through my motherboard manual quite a bit. I have seen videos that indicate that the windows 7 raid drivers perform much better than the gigabyte ones, and that the intel drivers do better as well. So, I'd like to use the windows 7 drivers ( I assume the intel drivers are a no go, seeing as its an amd board?).

I have seen instructions saying to put the drivers on a thumb drive, suggesting that the dvd won't be accessible when I'm queried for the drivers. Does anyone know if this is the case? If so, how would I go about getting the windows drivers onto my thumb drive? I've explored the win7 disk and didn't see anything that was jumping out at me as a driver folder. I also can't seem to find them on microsoft website.

Anyone able to help me out on these issues? Thank you.
 
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Win7 can read a CD/DVD for drivers during install.

All drivers have to be in the format where there's multiple files and an ".INF" file. This is the same format used for a floppy-disk install in XP. You can't just have a single .EXE installation file like you might run inside of Windows to install a driver.

I know zilch about AMD drivers and chipsets, so I can't help you with driver specifics for an AMD-based board.
 
I have a gigabyte ma790xt-ud4p motherboard , an am3 board.
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You're not going to be using any Intel disk drivers on that board and the Gigabyte drivers are for a different (GIGABYTE SATA2) chipset.

Good luck on the install!
 
Try installing Win 7 on your RAID array first. If it doesn't work, then start looking for drivers. I've been running my OS on RAID 0 disks for years, and pretty much since Vista came out the drivers have not really been an issue. XP required installing the drivers via the floppy/F6 method.

Gigabyte has SATA RAID drivers for your board, I'm sure they are just the drivers straight from AMD hosted by Gigabyte for your convenience.

32-bit: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/...?ProductID=3010&ost=windows+7+32bit#anchor_os

64-bit: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/...?ProductID=3010&ost=windows+7+64bit#anchor_os
 
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