MSI RAID on K8N Neo2 Motherboard - Please Help!

I need to install the windows raid drivers for this motherboard.
I have 2 x 200gb HD's both full of identical stuff (they were previously mirrored).
My drivers disks are miles away in another part of the country. I have searched the internet for hours, searched the MSI site and downloaded hundreds of drivers which claim to work, but some of them don't even run and have no instructions what-so-ever.
I have checked all the other forum posts, but can't make sense of them. I need a simple step-by-step installation guide.
Does anyone know what to do?
I would deeply appreciate some help.
Windows XP
1.5GB RAM
AMD64 3000 fx
K8N Neo2 MS 7030 Motherboard

That's much better , post a new thread and descibe your problem.
There no MSI staff here , so complaining of the product should be done through the MSI customer service www.msi.com.tw .
Before throwing up eventually right/wrong solutions for you to try please update your post with detailed spesifications of your system and components.
You say you have Neo2 and at the same time ms-7030 .
Important we get this straight in case someone recommends a certain bios update for you.
Neo2 is socket 939 dual channel motherboard and has code name ms-7025.
K8N Neo Platinum (also called neo1 after neo2 was released) has code name ms-7030 .
Witch one do you have .
Harddisks , it's known that certain new disks from maxtor with 16MB cache has problems with all nforce3/4 chipsets.
What type do you have .
Bios version ( essensial to know with what revision of nvraid.rom you used on your raid)
What version are you on , eventually what version have you updated to (if any) .
OS version are you using and what servicepack level.
What nForce chipset version you are on ( 5.03 / 5.10 /5.11 ?)
If you get winrar you can easily make a driver disk from the unified nvidia archive executable by right click on it and select extract .
Then you have the drivers under the ...\winxp2k\ide folder that can be put on a "nvide/nvraid floppy driver disk" if you like to.
Does one of your mirrored disks have errors ? , try them seperate as single disks and boot test apps etc.
If one has errors , format it and recreate the array as mirrored might be the best/easiest solution .
Don't use sata port1/2 if you overclock fsb beyond 225 , it will corrupt the disks . Use sata port 3/4 .

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