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

[RKEdwizzle]

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

 

[Golden]

Hi and welcome,

We need a bit more information about your hardware, especially the motherboard - there are many models of Gigabyte motherboard. Please follow the instructions in this tutorial to populate your profile with the relevant information, and I'll see what I can find for you:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/180324-system-info-see-your-system-specs.html

Regards,
Golden

 

[RKEdwizzle]

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

 

[RKEdwizzle]

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

 

[Golden]

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?

 

[RKEdwizzle]

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

 

[Golden]

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?

 

[Dwarf]

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.

 

[RKEdwizzle]

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?

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

 

[Golden]

Good pick up Dwarf - RKE, please try Dwarfs suggestion.

 

[RKEdwizzle]

Thank you very much, I shall try these now, also yes the legacy is on as I am booting my Windows from a USB thank you!

 

[RKEdwizzle]

hello, i have just plugged both the drives into the purple slots (the G,SATA ports) and now it comes up:

"NO Araray Defined...

Press CTRL+F to enter FastBuild Utility"

I press this and now only number 4 - "Controller Config" is working, I cannot press 2 - Define LD to set up the array :s
So now the HDD's are not RAIDed, shall I skip past this and still try the install by pressing F6 during the Windows setup?

 

[Golden]

OK...it really should be able to read the driver from a USB - copy to driver to separate FAT32 formatted USB (not the one you are installing Windows from!)

 

[RKEdwizzle]

ok I shall change the USB format froM NTFS to FAT32, it is on a seperate USB btw

So should I not worry about the Array at this point

 

[Golden]

^^ Nope, you have to build the array first. What options do you have under Controller Configuration?

 

[RKEdwizzle]

oh, there are no options it simply states the model build and another number, no more options other than Esc - taking you back to 1,2,3,4, and then when you press 1,2,3 nothing happens;
I have seen many people with this problem before on forums but cannot follow up with any more info

 

[Golden]

On pg. 78 of the manaul - did you choose RAID SATA type?

 

[RKEdwizzle]

On pg. 78 of the manaul - did you choose RAID SATA type?

In the BIOS, yes, it kept the same settings as before and I checked, if not the BIOS where should I be looking for this option thank you

 

[RKEdwizzle]

okay i apologise, I have now set up the array witht eh CTRL+G option through Gigabyte, I am so stupid for not seeing this before... Though as they say dont count your chickens before they hatch, thank you for your help in advance though... I shall update this thread when I have an update, cheers

 

[RKEdwizzle]

I just tried this, it hasnt made any difference