Successful Windows 7 Install on Qosmio G25?

Has anyone successfully installed Windows 7 on a Qosmio G25 yet. I understand it's not supported by Toshiba and there is a RAID driver problem. Has the latter been resolved one way or another?

I don't recall where I found the RAID drivers I used, but I keep them on a thumb drive so I just zipped them and uploaded for you guys.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nwmmfiyeymj
All I did to CLEAN INSTALL Windows 7 was the following:
Unzip the files to a thumb drive any folder name or root directory will do.
Begin Windows 7 install.
When you get to the point during install when Windows 7 cannot find the HDD simply pop in the thumb drive, click the Load Drivers option, and point the installer to the thumb drive directory to which you unzipped the files.
It will give you a list of drivers. The first one should work fine.
You can also burn the files to a CD and use that in place of a thumb drive.
I have used these files several times and they work flawlessly. I replaceed the primary HDD with an SSD and even that works fine with these drivers and Windows 7. As for compatibility, I have not gotten the top buttons to work, I don't use the TV tuner, so that may not work, and the volume knob doesn't have a readout on screen anymore, but does still work.
I also ran into a situation where Windows 7 wouldn't boot anymore, but I used startup recovery and reinstalled the RAID drivers and it boots just perfectly again.

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