Windows 7: RAID 1 Gigabyte SATA Cannot find the array during Windows 7 install

Hello,



I have just bought two brand new WD 500 GB RE4 HDD's and connected them coorectly for RAID 1.
I have changed the BIOS and Pressed Ctrl+F to create the RAID and this has been successful.
When installing Windows you obviously get to the aprt where you need to load the floppy drivers to locate the drives...

I have downloaded ever driver from the Gigabyte support drive and loaded them onto a USB, not one driver can be seen when the USB is "Browsed" too...

How important is it that the drivers are on a floppy, as I do not have a floppy drive or access to a floppy and drives.

Also what driver should be downloading as I tried the 3.2.1540.17 one and that was not seen, so I just downloaded them all in an attempt for success.

Any one with any advice its greatly welcomes thank you in advance

Hi and welcome,

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Golden

Heya Golden sorry about that, just setting up my profile now as it goes, but I copied the post from another forum but changed the title, apologies;

The motherboard is a Gigabyte MA790FXDQ6, I hope this helps and Thank you

GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket AM2+ - GA-MA790FX-DQ6 (rev. 1.0) <-- This is the Gigabyte support site for my motherboard, hope this helps

Yep, I was just looking at that - and it seems you have the correct driver.

Is this a brand new installation of Windows 7, or are you reinstalling?

A brand new legit installation

Ok,

In your manual pg.91 it specifically refers to a Floppy Disk for the driver (its quite an oldish motherboard), so unless someone can work out how to do that from a USB, then I'm not sure how else to do it......

Something to check : in your BIOS, is the "USB Legacy" setting or similar turned ON?

Not necessarily. There are 2 distinct SATA storage interfaces on that motherboard, one provided by the South Bridge (which is the driver you've tried), and the other by a Gigabyte SATA2 chip. Try the GIGABYTE SATA2 RAID Driver.

ahh lame, if I aquired a USB external Floppy drive would that work do you reckon? and I shall just exit the set up and check that for you right now, thank you for your help btw

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