Hello everyone, I've never heard of this forum before but found it about 2 hours ago after I realized I have a problem. My name is Charlie and I am an alcoholic...wait, wrong support group. My new computer parts are coming tomorrow, I went out of the way to buy a floppy drive just for the RAID driver installation. However, I forgot to get a disk...haha...A simple solution would be to go to the store tomorrow, but thats a last resort if I can't figure out this slipstreaming thing. I read the guide here about adding the .sys file and editing some of the other ones but my RAID drivers have 2 .sys files so I became confused. I ended up finding out about nLite and its "Integrate Driver" feature. I *think* I did it correctly but am not certain and thats what brings me here. I copied the contents of my XP Pro SP2 CD to my hard drive and ran nLite. On Task Selection all I chose were Drivers & Bootable ISO. The other features seem interesting but for now all I'm trying to do is to find a way not to go out and have to buy a floppy tomorrow. When I clicked Next, I clicked Insert then clicked Single Driver. It wanted an .inf file and there was only one in the folder of RAID stuff..."graid_f.inf", so I selected that and a new screen came up. Storage Device Textmode Driver Choose the exact type of hardware and OS if listed. Then it asks for Mode, choices were... Regular PNP driver & Textmode driver. It was preset to Textmode driver so I left it like that. Underneath it listed 8 different items. GIGABYTE GBB360 AHCI Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003) GIGABYTE GBB360 RAID Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003) GIGABYTE GBB361 AHCI Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003) GIGABYTE GBB361 RAID Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003) GIGABYTE GBB363 AHCI Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003) GIGABYTE GBB363 RAID Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003) GIGABYTE GBB366 AHCI Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003) GIGABYTE GBB366 RAID Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003) I just highlight them all figuring it couldn't hurt since I didn't know exactly which to use. Was this the right setting to leave it as? My hardware won't be here till tomorrow so I couldn't test it, but I burned it like this and said the installation grew by 0.20ish MB so I don't know. I'm installing 2 Western Digital Caviar RE WD1600YS 160GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives on a GIGABYTE GA-965G-DS3 Socket T (LGA 775) Intel G965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard. I've never used RAID before, kind of a newbie at this stuff as you can see. I've read through a lot of posts and still wasn't certain so I decided to make my own. Great site BTW. So should I do something different or is what I did good enough that I should have no problems installing SATA RAID drivers tomorrow?
