Vista & nVRaid - installation guide and troubleshooting

[axelscorpio]

I installed vista on an old disk (40gb), then I plug in the two raid disk but vista read as they are two disk not formatted.. I try to load the hwti driver (raid controller) but the situation is the same.. nvidia package is not yet compatible

[Fernando 1]

I installed vista on an old disk (40gb), then I plug in the two raid disk but vista read as they are two disk not formatted.. I try to load the hwti driver (raid controller) but the situation is the same.. nvidia package is not yet compatible

Vista will not automaticly detect the RAID.
I assume, that your nForce RAID hdd's are connected to the nForce4 S-ATA ports.
Have a look into the device manager:
1. If you see an unknown device, it probably will be the nForce RAID Controller. Let Vista search for the drivers. If Vista don't find them, point to HWTI's driver package.
2. Then have a view into the section IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller. If you have more than 1 entry named "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller", try to update them ("have disk" method, let Vista show all compatible hardware, choose "NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller").

[brut7]

NVIDIA Corporation - Other Hardware - NVIDIA nForce(tm) RAID Class Device

Uh-Oh,

Windows update wants to install a new driver!

I'm afraid it will crash my RAID array so I've hidden it.

Anyone have any info?

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Download size: 71 KB

You may need to restart your computer for this update to take effect.

Update type: Optional

NVIDIA Corporation Other Hardware sofware update released in December, 2006

More information:
http://winqual.microsoft.com/support/?driverid=20027995

More information:
http://support.microsoft.com/select/?target=hub

[namedkwon]

brut7,

i downloaded and installed that new driver thing but it doesn't work. at least for me when i installed vista x64 rtm with drivers from here. when you restart after it asks you to, when windows is right about to boot up, it crashes and restarts again. i had to do "Last Known configuration" to get back to windows. it'll say that i has been installed fine until the next day, it'll ask you to update that driver again

[Fernando 1]

NVIDIA Corporation - Other Hardware - NVIDIA nForce(tm) RAID Class Device
Windows update wants to install a new driver!
Download size: 71 KB
You may need to restart your computer for this update to take effect.
Update type: Optional
NVIDIA Corporation Other Hardware sofware update released in December, 2006

As long as you have no problems with your RAID system, I would not install this update.
Wait until the end of January, when NVIDIA will release new or updated nForce Vista drivers.

[brut7]

Thanks namedkwon and Fernando 1,

Thats pretty much what I expected and what I'll do.

Even if Nvidia never gets on the ball the drivers from this thread are just fine and will be fine for the life of this mobo and vista.

My sincere thanks again Fernando, you guys really helped out of lot of people.

All the best,

brut

[barrrrt]

... installing an SATA driver from this page. After this driver, i was able to find my hdds and to install Vista x64

Maybe it helps u http://www.siliconimage.com/support/index.aspx?pid=0&cid=0&

[Fernando 1]

... installing an SATA driver from this page. After this driver, i was able to find my hdds and to install Vista x64
Maybe it helps u http://www.siliconimage.com/support/index.aspx?pid=0&cid=0&

If you don't have an nForce RAID system, you can't use my guide.

[MrMosis]

I did the Windows Update driver....bad idea. I can no longer boot.... and I as of yet have been unable to recover. I ought to be able to trust Windows Update... especially with Vista and Vista drivers.

Man I am pretty mad about it!

Update: I used the drivers from here (the same ones I got Vista x64 RTM to install with) to try to do a repair or restore point or something from the Vista DVD. But it just won't see the RAID 0 drive, and therefore it won't see the Windows installation.

Another potentially pertinent piece of information: For some reason Last Known Good Configuration would not work for me.... Seems like that should work. Instead it just does the same thing... restarts the system after i believe drive.sys and crcheck.sys load, or something real close to that.

Any idears?

[Fernando 1]

I did the Windows Update driver....bad idea. I can no longer boot.... and I as of yet have been unable to recover. I ought to be able to trust Windows Update... especially with Vista and Vista drivers.
Another potentially pertinent piece of information: For some reason Last Known Good Configuration would not work for me.... Seems like that should work. Instead it just does the same thing... restarts the system after i believe drive.sys and crcheck.sys load, or something real close to that.
Any idears?

That's really annoying!
Other users reported, that they were able to rebuild the "Last Good Configuration" by typing F8.

Update: I used the drivers from here (the same ones I got Vista x64 RTM to install with) to try to do a repair or restore point or something from the Vista DVD. But it just won't see the RAID 0 drive, and therefore it won't see the Windows installation.

Did you use the correct 64-bit drivers? Try to use this patch instead of the drivers.