RAID Drivers? Intel Matrix? Chipset?

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mooseman99

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I have 2 Formatted Hard-drives in my Laptop, an Alienware m9750. When trying to install Vista on them with my recovery disk, I cannot create a partition in the unallocated space and get an Error: 0x80042453. If
I try to install there it says that there is a problem and I have to enable the drive's controller in BIOS. I have a feeling it has something to do with my RAID drivers or BIOS, as when I boot, ever since the error that made me reformat them in the first place, the Intel Matrix thing never comes up, and I never get an option to press <CTRL+I>.

With RAID disabled, and vista installed, I can access both hard drives fine.

Anybody know what to do? I was thinking of reinstalling the driver, either the Intel Matrix RAID Controller Driver, or the Chipset driver, but i dont know which, or how to install them
How do I even install drivers without installing vista first?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 

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mooseman99 said:
I have 2 Formatted Hard-drives in my Laptop, an Alienware m9750. When trying to install Vista on them with my recovery disk, I cannot create a partition in the unallocated space and get an Error: 0x80042453. If
I try to install there it says that there is a problem and I have to enable the drive's controller in BIOS. I have a feeling it has something to do with my RAID drivers or BIOS, as when I boot, ever since the error that made me reformat them in the first place, the Intel Matrix thing never comes up, and I never get an option to press <CTRL+I>.

With RAID disabled, and vista installed, I can access both hard drives fine.

Anybody know what to do? I was thinking of reinstalling the driver, either the Intel Matrix RAID Controller Driver, or the Chipset driver, but i dont know which, or how to install them
How do I even install drivers without installing vista first?


Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi Mooseman,

Welcome to the forums,

Try booting from the dvd in normal mode and deleting both drives and then try your raid again.

Normally you would also have to set up a raid array in the Bios. It is to my knowledge not just a case of selecting raid over sata, but then your laptop could possibly be different

You should normally install the raid drivers, when vista fails to find your harddrives which would be a part of a normal raid install At this point you would be given the option to install 3rd party drivers

I hope this helps Pooch
 

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I deleted both partitions and nothing. Reinstalled vista and the raid driver (Intel Matrix) wont install, saying that my computer "doesn't meet the minimum requirements", which is odd, as this was the driver provided by alienware.
Flashed the Bios, updated the chipset, and it still won't install. Oh well, I don't really notice much of a difference in performance anyway.
Thanks for the advice though.
 

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Remove the drives from the RAID controller setup. Reboot. Readd them as a new array. Make sure both drives are same size and empty.
 

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  • CPU
    pair of Intel E5430 quad core 2.66 GHz Xeons
    Motherboard
    Supermicro X7DWA-N server board
    Memory
    16GB DDR667
    Graphics card(s)
    eVGA 8800 GTS 640 MB video card
    Hard Drives
    SAS RAID
SCSIraidGURU said:
Remove the drives from the RAID controller setup. Reboot. Readd them as a new array. Make sure both drives are same size and empty.
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This might work, if you are still interested.

I understand how annoying it can be when these things don't work :( Doesn't feel much better if you are to far away to get hands on :p

Happy holidays

Pooch
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self build
    CPU
    Phenom II x4 Black Edition 940-Arctic-Cooling Freezer Xtreme
    Motherboard
    Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe
    Memory
    8 gig Samsung PC800 RAM
    Graphics card(s)
    NVidia 9600gt
    Sound Card
    AD1988b
    Monitor(s) Displays
    22" TFT-MONITOR WIDESCREEN mit VGA/DVI 17" Video7 TFT
    Screen Resolution
    1680 : 1050 1280 : 1024
    Hard Drives
    Drive #1 - SAMSUNG HD252HJ (250 GB) Drive #2 - Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 (1000 GB) Drive #3 - SAMSUNG HD250HJ (250 GB) Drive #4 - SAMSUNG HD103UJ (1000 GB) External eSATA
    PSU
    Thermaltake Toughpower Cable Management 750W
    Case
    Enermax Chakra
    Cooling
    2x 120mm Front and Back 1x 250mm Side
    Mouse
    Easy Line Laser Mouse
    Keyboard
    Standard
    Internet Speed
    16000
    Other Info
    I have also used Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu Linux And all other Windows from 95 to date except ME
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