loading sata raid drivers boot

I cannot find where to specify drivers for my Nvidia SATA RAID Controller when booting from my Windows Vista Beta 2 x64 DVD.
Where can I specify these drivers when booting form the disc? The drives are already formatted (NTFS) and the array is set.

When Vista presents the drives\partions available to load the OS to this is when you can insert the RAID drivers. It's been awhile so I don't remember exactly the procedure. Possible just the refresh selections.
"John" wrote in message

I cannot find where to specify drivers for my Nvidia SATA RAID Controller when booting from my Windows Vista Beta 2 x64 DVD.
Where can I specify these drivers when booting form the disc? The drives are already formatted (NTFS) and the array is set.

It never gets to that point. All I get is the error that it cannot read my drive information (or something like that, I can't remember specificly).
"Mark W Scheidell" wrote:

When Vista presents the drives\partions available to load the OS to this is when you can insert the RAID drivers. It's been awhile so I don't remember exactly the procedure. Possible just the refresh selections.
"John" wrote in message I cannot find where to specify drivers for my Nvidia SATA RAID Controller when booting from my Windows Vista Beta 2 x64 DVD.
Where can I specify these drivers when booting form the disc? The drives are already formatted (NTFS) and the array is set.

John wrote:

It never gets to that point. All I get is the error that it cannot read my drive information (or something like that, I can't remember specificly).

You may be having the problem I've been having (although I've been trying to install the 32-bit version). I boot from the DVD and I get to the Screen with "Install Windows" in the Title bar. In the middle of the screen it says Windows Vista
Install now
And on the bottom there are two choices:
What to know bewfore installing Windows
System recovery options.
As soon as I click Install now, I get the message "Setup could not get information about the disks on your computer."
May I ask what motherboard you have?
-- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup

"Mark W Scheidell" wrote:
When Vista presents the drives\partions available to load the OS to this is when you can insert the RAID drivers. It's been awhile so I don't remember exactly the procedure. Possible just the refresh selections.
"John" wrote in message I cannot find where to specify drivers for my Nvidia SATA RAID Controller when booting from my Windows Vista Beta 2 x64 DVD.
Where can I specify these drivers when booting form the disc? The drives are already formatted (NTFS) and the array is set.

That is exactly what happens for me as well.
I have eVGA's 133-K8-NF41-AX (nForce4 SLI chipset).
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

You may be having the problem I've been having (although I've been trying to install the 32-bit version). I boot from the DVD and I get to the Screen with "Install Windows" in the Title bar. In the middle of the screen it says Windows Vista
Install now
And on the bottom there are two choices:
What to know bewfore installing Windows
System recovery options.
As soon as I click Install now, I get the message "Setup could not get information about the disks on your computer."
May I ask what motherboard you have?
-- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup

That is exactly what happens to me.
I'm using EVGA's 133-K8-NF41-AX (nForce4 SLI Chipset)
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

John wrote:
It never gets to that point. All I get is the error that it cannot read my drive information (or something like that, I can't remember specificly).
You may be having the problem I've been having (although I've been trying to install the 32-bit version). I boot from the DVD and I get to the Screen with "Install Windows" in the Title bar. In the middle of the screen it says Windows Vista
Install now
And on the bottom there are two choices:
What to know bewfore installing Windows
System recovery options.
As soon as I click Install now, I get the message "Setup could not get information about the disks on your computer."
May I ask what motherboard you have?
-- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup

"Mark W Scheidell" wrote:
When Vista presents the drives\partions available to load the OS to this is when you can insert the RAID drivers. It's been awhile so I don't remember exactly the procedure. Possible just the refresh selections.
"John" wrote in message I cannot find where to specify drivers for my Nvidia SATA RAID Controller when booting from my Windows Vista Beta 2 x64 DVD.
Where can I specify these drivers when booting form the disc? The drives are already formatted (NTFS) and the array is set.

John wrote:

That is exactly what happens for me as well.
I have eVGA's 133-K8-NF41-AX (nForce4 SLI chipset).

My motherboard is a different one (MSI K8N Neo4) but it has the same chipset. The people I've been talking to about that I trust think it's an issue with the motherboard/chipset. I've also tried installing Vista from within Windows XP on a separate partition ins a dual-boot scenario, but that doesn't work either. Everything seemed to be going OK. It accepted the driver diskette, then gave me a message about a missing SCSI driver. Since I have no SCSI devices, I told it to go ahead anyway. It went through copying files, then rebooted. But rebooting resulted in a blue screen, which repeated when I tried rebooting again.

If you, or anyone else here, has any other suggestions for me to try, I'm all ears.
-- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
You may be having the problem I've been having (although I've been trying to install the 32-bit version). I boot from the DVD and I get to the Screen with "Install Windows" in the Title bar. In the middle of the screen it says Windows Vista
Install now
And on the bottom there are two choices:
What to know bewfore installing Windows
System recovery options.
As soon as I click Install now, I get the message "Setup could not get information about the disks on your computer."
May I ask what motherboard you have?
-- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup

I finally got Vista x64 going by installing WinXP Pro x64 first with nLite (http://www.nliteos.com/). I had to use nLite with Pro x64 becuase of problems with the RAID drivers being replaced by older drivers when the XP install rebooted. After installing Win XP Pro x64, I installed Vista x64 using this walk through: http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/vista-beta2-and-nforce-sataraid-an-installation-guide-vt66299.html?sid=a1c81053a03f1d8105500dfd10ae7215
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

John wrote:
That is exactly what happens for me as well.
I have eVGA's 133-K8-NF41-AX (nForce4 SLI chipset).
My motherboard is a different one (MSI K8N Neo4) but it has the same chipset. The people I've been talking to about that I trust think it's an issue with the motherboard/chipset. I've also tried installing Vista from within Windows XP on a separate partition ins a dual-boot scenario, but that doesn't work either. Everything seemed to be going OK. It accepted the driver diskette, then gave me a message about a missing SCSI driver. Since I have no SCSI devices, I told it to go ahead anyway. It went through copying files, then rebooted. But rebooting resulted in a blue screen, which repeated when I tried rebooting again.

If you, or anyone else here, has any other suggestions for me to try, I'm all ears.
-- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
You may be having the problem I've been having (although I've been trying to install the 32-bit version). I boot from the DVD and I get to the Screen with "Install Windows" in the Title bar. In the middle of the screen it says Windows Vista
Install now
And on the bottom there are two choices:
What to know bewfore installing Windows
System recovery options.
As soon as I click Install now, I get the message "Setup could not get information about the disks on your computer."
May I ask what motherboard you have?
-- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup

John wrote:

I finally got Vista x64 going by installing WinXP Pro x64 first with nLite (http://www.nliteos.com/). I had to use nLite with Pro x64 becuase of problems with the RAID drivers being replaced by older drivers when the XP install rebooted. After installing Win XP Pro x64, I installed Vista x64 using this walk through: http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/vista-beta2-and-nforce-sataraid-an-installation-guide-vt66299.html?sid=a1c81053a03f1d8105500dfd10ae7215

Thanks. I'll look at this.
-- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
John wrote:
That is exactly what happens for me as well.
I have eVGA's 133-K8-NF41-AX (nForce4 SLI chipset).
My motherboard is a different one (MSI K8N Neo4) but it has the same chipset. The people I've been talking to about that I trust think it's an issue with the motherboard/chipset. I've also tried installing Vista from within Windows XP on a separate partition ins a dual-boot scenario, but that doesn't work either. Everything seemed to be going OK. It accepted the driver diskette, then gave me a message about a missing SCSI driver. Since I have no SCSI devices, I told it to go ahead anyway. It went through copying files, then rebooted. But rebooting resulted in a blue screen, which repeated when I tried rebooting again.

If you, or anyone else here, has any other suggestions for me to try, I'm all ears.
-- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
You may be having the problem I've been having (although I've been trying to install the 32-bit version). I boot from the DVD and I get to the Screen with "Install Windows" in the Title bar. In the middle of the screen it says Windows Vista
Install now
And on the bottom there are two choices:
What to know bewfore installing Windows
System recovery options.
As soon as I click Install now, I get the message "Setup could not get information about the disks on your computer."
May I ask what motherboard you have?
-- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup

I have the exact same problem but I have an Abit AW8-MAX 3rd Eye II. With an Intel 955x Chipset. So it can't be about just the chipset/mainboard. I am not using any RAID arrays and I have three drives only one of which is partitioned right in half. I read in some forums on the internet people mentioning that the setup spits out the "setup could not get the information about the disks on your computer" error when you have partitions. This is extremely frustrating because its obvious that lots of people have this problem but I have yet to find one with a response from Microsoft in these forums.
Whats going on guys. How about some help. 1/2 of the user base for this operation will probably have some form of SATA/RAID/ or partitions on their computer. If this is a common problem than it needs to be remedied.
"John" wrote:

That is exactly what happens to me.
I'm using EVGA's 133-K8-NF41-AX (nForce4 SLI Chipset)
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
John wrote:
It never gets to that point. All I get is the error that it cannot read my drive information (or something like that, I can't remember specificly).
You may be having the problem I've been having (although I've been trying to install the 32-bit version). I boot from the DVD and I get to the Screen with "Install Windows" in the Title bar. In the middle of the screen it says Windows Vista
Install now
And on the bottom there are two choices:
What to know bewfore installing Windows
System recovery options.
As soon as I click Install now, I get the message "Setup could not get information about the disks on your computer."
May I ask what motherboard you have?
-- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup

"Mark W Scheidell" wrote:
When Vista presents the drives\partions available to load the OS to this is when you can insert the RAID drivers. It's been awhile so I don't remember exactly the procedure. Possible just the refresh selections.
"John" wrote in message I cannot find where to specify drivers for my Nvidia SATA RAID Controller when booting from my Windows Vista Beta 2 x64 DVD.
Where can I specify these drivers when booting form the disc? The drives are already formatted (NTFS) and the array is set.