SATA Install and RAID driver disk

deepseadeepsea Lancaster, PA
edited August 2004 in Science & Tech
I'm upgrading my OS to XP, and my floppy drive has died. I'm using an Asus K8V SE with the VIA RAID controller. The RAID array dies when I overclock anyway, so I'm thinking about swapping back to two independent SATA drives. Does anyone know if I'll still need the RAID driver disk to use the Windows install? The SATA drives are still tied to the VIA controller rather than to the standard mobo connectors.

thanks.

Comments

  • floppybootstompfloppybootstomp Greenwich New
    edited August 2004
    You should be OK booting from the XP CD and installing the controller drivers afterwards. I've done that before. Does XP see the SATA drives OK during install process?

    If XP has support for your controller it will install it's own drivers to support it intially, but you'd be better off installing the dedicated drivers after install.
  • EQuitoEQuito SoCal, USA
    edited August 2004
    Does anyone know if I'll still need the RAID driver disk to use the Windows install?
    I hardly doubt XP has native drivers for such a new SB (VIA VT8237) so the answer would be yes, you need to press F6 to install the driver.
  • floppybootstompfloppybootstomp Greenwich New
    edited August 2004
    In which case, just try it, if it no work, buy a floppy drive, they're only about a fiver, always handy to have one for situations like this.
  • EQuitoEQuito SoCal, USA
    edited August 2004
    Or he could burn a bootable floppy image and the driver files onto a CD which will be recognized as drive a:\

    This guide is for a bios disk but works for just about evetything else.
  • floppybootstompfloppybootstomp
    bites lip and thinks that really is a rather splendid idea.....
     Greenwich New
    edited August 2004
    bites lip and thinks that really is a rather splendid idea.....
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