Windows 7 - trouble loading 1st driver needed - Mass Storage Driver

This is what I written down for Gigabyte Tech Zone but I don't want to wait a month or 2 for the reply.

I used to have used Vista 64bit before with Hard Drives in Raid0 and I am trying to load Windows 7 64bit with just 1 hard drive. In the Bios I have disabled SATA RAID/AHCI Mode & changed Onboard SATA/IDE Device to enabled & changed Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode to IDE. On boot it finds the Hard Drive but when I install it gets to the Load Drivers section and when I scan or Browse for the drivers it doesn't find any drivers for it using all the Gigabyte drivers that are loaded on a USB thumb drive (latest Gigabyte Windows 7 drivers included). I imagaine it is probably looking for the Intel ICH9R/ICH10R Driver or Intel ICH9R/ICH10R SATA RAID Driver or the Mass Storage Drivers and as there were no Windows 7 available on Gigabyte I tried the Vista ones with no success. Could you advise what is needed to get it running again. Whether I missed something it the BIOS etc.... Thanks

Drivers are loaded on a USB Thumb Drive but I did try a floppy disk at one stage but may not have had the correct drivers on the floppy drive. The USB Thumb Drive had all Vista & Windows 7 Drivers available on Gigabyte Website on it.

Also if I use any of the Vista 64-bit drivers it comes up with the warning as follows:
To continue installation use the 'Load Driver' option to install 32-bit and signed 64-bit drivers. Device Driver is not supported and might result in an unusable Windows installation.

I am just not sure what driver it is looking for, as none of the new Windows 7 drivers from Gigabyte website are useful. Thanks

OK, I just found that it is looking for mass storage driver for installation and looking where i want to install it to. It could be that the system is still looking for a RAID ARRAY drivers as I think in boot up it still says there is no drives for the RAID ARRAY but I am not sure as it is so fast I cant even pause it in time.

I did redo the RAID setup in the BIOS and then went into the RAID ARRAY setup and deleted the RAID0 setup there. Then I tried to load the Mass storage Drivers again when installing Windows 7, but still no luck.

This is basically as far as I can get and there is no Hard Drive like there is shown in this picture, so this leads me to believe I need to still dispose of the RAID ARRAY setup from the previous Vista install in the BIOS possibly. But I am not sure what to do as I thought I would just Disable RAID in the BIOS.

(picture courtesy of Brink Administrator Windows SevenForum)



System Specs
OS : Window 7 64-bit
CPU : Intel LGA 775 2.83Ghz
Motherboard : Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6
Memory : G Skill 1066Mhz DDR2 4Gb - 2 x 2Gb Dual Channel
Graphics Card : ATI 3870
Sound Card : Realtek ALC889A codec
Monitor Displays : Dell 24" LCD
Screen Resolution : 1920 x 1200 pixels
Hard Drives :Samsung 750Gb
PSU :Thermaltake 850w

Does anyone have any ideas on what to do. Thanks

Can you not use the restore BIOS to default settings options then use the windows setup options to delete any possible boot partitions holding information regards booting raid 0 from your drives. You should then be able to install windows 7 normally and install your drivers once windows is installed.