K7N2 Delta Sata problem

I know this has been posted plenty of times before but the fixes for those do not seem to be working.
Im running a K7N2 Delta ILSR and have bought myself a Hitachi T7K250 250GB sata2 drive but am having real problems installing it.
I want to run my trusty Win2K
I have done the CTRL - F in bios thing and set my drive as a striped raid, after which i reset and the post states i have a functional drive.
So i boot from my Win2K CD and hit F6 when prompted to do so and insert my driver floppy, i install both the Raid and Storage drivers but when i get to the actual Windows set up it states it cant find a hard disk.
I have tried the SATA drivers from the MSI website, and NVIDIA and am wondering if the promise drivers would be more sucessful.
Does anyone else have any suggestion of what to do next?

I have created and also replied to several posts on a very similar issue. The Delta2 version will NOT work with some SATA II drives. I have found NO fix for this and I have spent a lot of hours on it.
As Stu points out, the two boards have different controller chipsets, but I would guess them to have the same problem. Also, my experience is with Maxtor brand drives. Different products, but likely the same issue.
Try a SATA I drive to test. My experience with jumpering a SATAII drive into SATAI mode resulted in total failure.

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