Hard drive setup on raid with XP
Ok, My motherboard is the kt3 ultra aru. I have just added a third hard drive onto ide # 3. Raid is set to on in the bios. The machine dual boots with win98 and xp.
Everything is working fine with win98 and the drive shows up and has a drive letter assigned.
In xp, when it comes to new hardware found and it asks for the raid driver it also says it needs a file from online and when I connect it pauses for a while then continues to ask for the driver, which it installs from the floppy.
I then get the message that the installation has failed and the drive doesnt show up.
Device manager shows a yellow question mark.
Anyone had this happen ??
Any ideas ?
cheers bluedog
Yes I have read that post and understand it.
As I said, the installation into win 98 went without a hitch. But the problem arises when trying to install the promise driver for win xp and it asks to go to the windows update.microsoft.com and get a file.
I have tried to find an updated promise driver with no joy, they dont list one on the promise site.
i'm stuck ;(
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