x64 Vista ultimate Installation Issue

[cyber2007]

I am building a new system . I am using P5E MB and 2 Seagate barracuda hard drives.
I have setup up RAID0 and trying to install vista ultimate x64.
I am able to boot up and start the installation process . In the 2nd step, it finished copying files,expanding files,installing feature and when doing installing updates i get a message

"windows cannot access the installation sources.Verify that the installation sources are accessible, and restart the installation"

I tried the installation process couple of times and i still get the same error.. Has any seen this issue before ?
thanks

 

[TheKub]

Before the vista install started did you load the raid drivers?

From another site:

On the page where you choose what drive to install to (and in your case you
see no drives) there is an Advanced button. In there you can specify
additional drivers. Use that to load the driver for your RAID controller
and then any volumes you created in the RAID BIOS would be visible as
installable drives.

 

[cyber2007]

yes.. i did load the RAID drivers and i am able to select the drive for installation..

 

[TheKub]

Legit version of vista?

 

[cyber2007]

yes.. its is a corporate version.
Don't know if it matters, but i have a installed 4GB of RAM

 

[TheKub]

Have you tried installing on a single drive.

When it says "windows cannot access the installation sources.Verify that the installation sources are accessible" I dont know if its trying to say the CD or the HDD is inaccessible. Id try just on a plain drive first just so see if the disk is good.

 

[robisbell]

so you had the raid drivers on a secondary cd and chose the option to load then when you started the installation?
when you created the raid 0 did you initialize it and prep it in the BIOS and Raid Utility 1st?

 

[cyber2007]

Originally posted by: TheKub
Have you tried installing on a single drive.

When it says "windows cannot access the installation sources.Verify that the installation sources are accessible" I dont know if its trying to say the CD or the HDD is inaccessible. Id try just on a plain drive first just so see if the disk is good.

No. i did not do that.. I will try that out today..

Originally posted by: robisbell
so you had the raid drivers on a secondary cd and chose the option to load then when you started the installation?
when you created the raid 0 did you initialize it and prep it in the BIOS and Raid Utility 1st?

yes.. i set it up using the RAID utility..
I had the raid drivers in USB thumb drive and chose the option to load the drivers during install..

 

[boomerang]

Originally posted by: cyber2007

Originally posted by: TheKub
Have you tried installing on a single drive.

When it says "windows cannot access the installation sources.Verify that the installation sources are accessible" I dont know if its trying to say the CD or the HDD is inaccessible. Id try just on a plain drive first just so see if the disk is good.

No. i did not do that.. I will try that out today..

Originally posted by: robisbell
so you had the raid drivers on a secondary cd and chose the option to load then when you started the installation?
when you created the raid 0 did you initialize it and prep it in the BIOS and Raid Utility 1st?

yes.. i set it up using the RAID utility..
I had the raid drivers in USB thumb drive and chose the option to load the drivers during install..

Good advice here. To add to it, I guess I wonder whether Vista will look for a flash drive for drivers. I don't know the answer to the question.

You've mentioned having 4GB of Ram. I'm not certain under exactly what circumstances 4GB is a no-no, but I know that it sometimes is a problem. I don't think it's part of your problem here, but it sure wouldn't hurt to cut it down to 2GB for the install.

 

[cyber2007]

I removed the raid array and did a plain drive install and everything installed successfully.
now i have to figure out why it doesn't work with the RAID..
could this happen due to incorrect driver ? I copied the driver that came with the motherboard CD to a thumb drive and used that

 

[sonoma1993]

Originally posted by: boomerang

Originally posted by: cyber2007

Originally posted by: TheKub
Have you tried installing on a single drive.

When it says "windows cannot access the installation sources.Verify that the installation sources are accessible" I dont know if its trying to say the CD or the HDD is inaccessible. Id try just on a plain drive first just so see if the disk is good.

No. i did not do that.. I will try that out today..

Originally posted by: robisbell
so you had the raid drivers on a secondary cd and chose the option to load then when you started the installation?
when you created the raid 0 did you initialize it and prep it in the BIOS and Raid Utility 1st?

yes.. i set it up using the RAID utility..
I had the raid drivers in USB thumb drive and chose the option to load the drivers during install..

Good advice here. To add to it, I guess I wonder whether Vista will look for a flash drive for drivers. I don't know the answer to the question.

You've mentioned having 4GB of Ram. I'm not certain under exactly what circumstances 4GB is a no-no, but I know that it sometimes is a problem. I don't think it's part of your problem here, but it sure wouldn't hurt to cut it down to 2GB for the install.

i think the 4GB of ram is an issue with 4 memory modules are install..

 

[cyber2007]

I tried switching back to RAID and in the screen to select the the drive, i see the RAID array listed..but below there is a message , "This computer's hardware may not support booting to this dis. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer BIOS menu". I have loaded the RAID drivers and enabled RAID in BIOS.. ".

 

[boomerang]

Edit: I mistakenly responded to your previous post, not your last one. I'm sorry, but I'm confused by your last post though. These messages, are they all seen in the BIOS, or some in the BIOS and some within Vista? Kind of confused. What might be going on is that the RAID BIOS has detected that the one drive has boot files on it. You may need to wipe those files. I'm just guessing as I'm unclear on what you're saying. I'll leave my original reply below for what it's worth.



Try the drivers at the Asus site under Chipset. What you want is labeled, Make Intel ICH9 RAID Driver Disk for Windows XP & 64bit XP/ Vista/ 64bit Vista.

Unzip and execute the file and it should prompt you from there.

A question though. Did you have just files on your flash drive or a folder with files? The install routine will not look in a folder, the flash drive must have just files on it. You can probably skip the anguish of the Asus site if you had a folder instead of the files.

If Vista will look for a flash drive, would it also look at a CD? You might be able to just direct it to the CD.

Sorry for thinking out loud. I've done RAID 0 with XP, but not Vista.