P5B Deluxe Raid with XP or VISTA RC1

[grazzyman]

Hi,

I have just put together my new machine using a P5B deluxe with WIFI and three Samsung 250GB Spinpoint SP2504C drives.

I want a Raid5 system with two partitions (one 64.8MB which I'll use for the OS and a 400GB one for the DATA).

I have created a raid driver disc from the ASUS CD. I have also created one from the intel website using the 'floppy' tool.

I have tried to install VISTA RC1 and also the newer RC1 build that has just released. The VISTA installation recognises my floppy when I select 'load drivers', however it always says that it cannot install VISTA on either of the two RAID5 drives I have created, it recommends activating the raid controller in the BIOS...which obviously has already been done.

I then tried installing windows XP SP2 and using the F6 method installed the raid drivers which windows indicates are newer on the floppy than on the CD. These install, however, shortly after the system BSOD on me during the installation.

I am now left with a system that I cannot use if I want to use RAID. Both will install fine if I do not select RAID in the BIOS.

Does anyone have a solution or some advice?

Regards,

Phil.

 

[grazzyman]

Has anyone got any ideas? btw I have been into the Intel Raid and set up the RAID5 correctly and on startup, the raid5 disc is showing as active.

any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

Phil.

 

[imported_mdc]

Sorry, I haven't any ideas. The following article is about building a Vista system using a P5B deluxe, and they used RAID 5. No mention of driver difficulties.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2015424,00.asp