RAID drivers, Windows 7 and Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-DS2

[timj17]

Hi,

I have 2 30gb SSD drives hanging around and decided to create my new PC using them both in RAID 0. That seems to have worked fine through the Gigabyte utility and shows a 54GB disk on startup.

During Windows 7 installation it cannot see any disk. I have downloaded the RAID driver from Gigabyte onto a USB pen, but it shows as empty when I browse for the driver during the Windows installation. The driver I downloaded was an .exe file? Is that correct, or should I be looking for a real driver like a .inf files?

Thanks, Tim

 

[timj17]

Link I used..

GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket FM2+ - GA-F2A88XM-DS2 (rev. 3.x)

 

[RogerR]

Not an expert on your situation, but I think an .exe would be self-installing from a windows environment, and you aren't there yet. 30GB is rather small partition from which to install and run Windows. Are the disks formatted and present in the BIOS setup?

I see where you are going though ...

Feed your greed for speed by installing SSDs in RAID 0 | PCWorld

 

[timj17]

I wasn't really after the speed advantage, just something to do with 2 otherwise useless SSD's. I only need to instal windows and office, no docs will be stored on it. So should be ok for a while, until updates become to large for the disk!

Any ideas anyone?

 

[RogerR]

I wasn't really after the speed advantage, just something to do with 2 otherwise useless SSD's. I only need to instal windows and office, no docs will be stored on it. So should be ok for a while, until updates become to large for the disk!

Any ideas anyone?

Save the driver (.inf file) on a USB drive and load it when asked during Windows install.

 

[timj17]

But there is only an exe file on the gigabyte website. How do I get the inf?

 

[RogerR]

Did you try F6 during the install and prompt for the USB drive?

Update: The Gigabyte .exe appears to facilitate booting from USB/floppy.

 

[pbcopter]

But there is only an exe file on the gigabyte website. How do I get the inf?

If you are using the AMD RAID drivers (version 6.1.3.35) from the Gigabyte site you listed,
run the exe file (double click on it), it will extract the drivers to a place you designate.

 

[timj17]

Thanks, that worked eventually. I had another issue as well, setup was saying it needed dvd drivers for my external drive. Solved by cancelling to the blue windows 7 screen, swapped drive to another USB port, then instal again, worked fine.

 

[pbcopter]

You're welcome.
Glad it worked