K8N Neo4-F (PCB 3.0); RAID drivers refuse to install = Me going crazy

Alright first off, this is my first post. :D Hello MSI forums!
I have put this issue on a couple sites so far, and no one has provided anything close to help, so I'm hoping people here will be more knowledgeable.
The steps I take:
1. I am doing a fresh and full install of Windows XP Media 2005. I have made a RAID0 out of two IDE (not SATA) drives. I have set it to boot.
2. Upon loading Windows Install, I press F6 at the appropriate time, and everything is smooth with loading the two (2) drivers needed.
3. Windows finished loading and get to the screen where you see the list of your drives. I take a look and everything is normal. It sees my RAID0, and it is the size it should be.
4. I select it, do a quick format of it. It does this and continues.
5. Now here is the problem; Immediately after step #4, like it should, it access the floppy to load everything it needs for XP. Except it wont load anything. It damned refuses to load anything at all. It doesnt even try to really access the floppy! Meaning the floppy itself doesn't give a read error, it simply gives me a screen telling me "cannot be read" when it didnt even try and read the floppy.
I hope Im explaining this well, some people think that perhaps the floppy is damages or something. I assure you it aint the floppy or the drive. I have used several different disks, I have tested each one to make sure they work and there are no errors whatsoever. The issue is literally Windows Install for whatever reason is refusing to take the files off the floppy, thus I have to 'skip' them all, yet remember, the initial two (2) drivers loaded perfectly fine without fuss in Step #2. ???
I have been at this for two (2) days now. I have used the nVidia RAID drivers as well as the RAID drivers provided by MSI on their site for my motherboard. But I do noth think that makes a difference, because even if I had teh wrong drivers on the floppy, Windows wont load them to even find that out.
My Mobo is an nForce4 ... 7125-60.
Anyone have any idea? I DID get the drivers to load properly with an old Win XP Pro CD, but I want Media edition, and there seems to be no logical reason why the Media instal would simply refuse the files on the floppy while they were accessed without trouble just fine (in the same day same floppy) by XP Pro. :(
Any help is appreciated!

Quote from: Bigglesw0rth on 16-December-07, 09:48:28
The system stats are irrelevant. The mobo is in the subject. 7125-60 is the exact model.
Windows install (the whole XP line) only needs two files in the initial phase of install (after F6). This is simply so the installer itself can see the RAID. After that (directly after the format if you choose to format) and right before the install starts loading all the files it needs before the first restart, it will access teh floppy to get the rest of what it needs for XP itself to be able to see the RAID. That is what is not happening.
In Xp Pro (non Media Center Edition), the second access of the floppy after the format goes though perfectly fine. In Media Center Edition it tried to access teh floppy, then simply refuses to load the files off teh floppy.
Its pissing me off at this point. Right now my theory is that some sort of asinine protection Microsoft "protection" (possibly driver sig) is blocking the drivers from loading, and XP MCE is loading its own non-working retarded drivers.
Ive tried slipstreaming and it didnt work the first time. I dont have vmware to test it on and I dont want to screw up too many DVDs, and simply using XP Pro is not a solution, its a 'i give up' stage.
Hi,
A couple of thoughts:
1) When you load the initial driver floppy (F6), does it give you a choice of which drivers to load? Typically, when I've had to do the F6 thing, there'd be multiple sets of drivers, and I'd get a menu and have to select the correct one. If so, was there a menu item specifically for XP Media Edition (or whatever it's called)?
2) Are you by any chance using a USB floppy drive? There's a reference here to an MS KB article (916916) about compatible USB floppies:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.intel/msg/df7b2411c347566f
but, I searched the MS KB, and couldn't find that article.
Jim

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