Windows 7 - Windows 7 64bit new install problem

GM gentlemen,

I’m trying to do a new install of windows 7 64bit on a Raid 0 setup.

I connected the two 1GB drives to ports 6 and 7 and the bios shows me that they are connected to ports 4 &5. I went ahead and followed the MOBO manual and enabled Raid and USE AS SATA in bios for ports 4 &5 and then went into GSATA and did a virtual drive and the setup worked ok. This way seems to bypass having to setup the Array after reboot. I tried it and it did not work where you would hit “CTL F” and choose 1 to 4.


Only button 4 responds. Anyway I’m not sure if this is the right way to do this with this new MOBO.

I move on to installing windows 7 and I had previously downloaded Windows 7 version of Raid driver and SATA3 driver from Gigabyte and stored them on a floppy.
After reboot windows setup starts from a DVD and goes thru language select and so on then it asks for the “drivers” so I tell it to go to the floppy but it can’t find any on it.

I do not know where to go from here.

Your help is appreciated!


Gigabyte MA790FXTA MOBO
memory modules OCZ3P1866LV4GK
video card, ATI 5770 PPG 1GB.
PCS 850W
Hitachi 2x 1TB drives setup as Raid 0