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I realize this is a very old post, however I was having trouble getting my 1210SA SATA RAID card working for Windows 2003 installation, and thanks to this page I was able to piece it together. And there was much rejoicing. So, for anyone else who might be searching for this bit of info, I have outlined what worked for me. I copied everything from the Windows 2003 CD-ROM (disk 1) into a new folder on my C: drive called 2K3_FILES. Then I copied the files from my driver folder downloaded from Adaptec - the one that worked for me was called w2k-xp-2k3_drv_bld10. The link is here: http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/speed/raid/aa...v_bld10_exe.htm From the download link there download aar1210sa_w2k-xp-2k3_drv_bld10_exe and run that, it will extract the following files to c:\adaptec\raid. Make sure this folder is empty first, if it already exists. Here are the files: HRAIDSK1 TRANS.TBL TXTSETUP.OEM WIN2000\AAR1210.CAT WIN2000\AAR1210.SYS WIN2000\ADHRAID.CAT WIN2000\ADHRAID.INF WIN2000\OEMSETUP.INF WIN2000\TRANS.TBL Now create the folder structure $OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\RAID\AAR1210 inside the I386 folder which is inside c:\2K3_FILES (or wherever you copied the CD-ROM files to). Also copy the files within the $OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\RAID\AAR1210\WIN2000 folder directly into $OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\RAID\AAR1210, just in case (I did, and it worked for me after many, many failed attempts). Then, add the following entries under each of the 4 headings HardwareIdsDatabase, SourceDisksFiles, SCSI.Load, and SCSI (THESE HEADINGS ALREADY EXIST IN THE FILE, SO JUST ADD THE ENTRIES) to TXTSETUP.SIF, which is also in the I386 folder in c:\2K3_FILES (or wherever you copied the CD-ROM files to): [HardwareIdsDatabase] PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_0240 = "aar1210" [SourceDisksFiles] aar1210.sys = 1,,,,,,_4,4,1 [SCSI.Load] aar1210 = aar1210.sys,4 [SCSI] aar1210 = "Adaptec SATA RAID 1210SA" My WINNT.SIF (also in the I386 folder) was like this (replace product key with your own, or else remove the [userData] section completely): [UserData] ProductKey="XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX" [Data] AutoPartition=0 MSDosInitiated=0 UnattendedInstall=Yes [Unattended] UnattendMode=ProvideDefault OemPreinstall=Yes OemSkipEula=Yes DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore OemPnPDriversPath=drivers\RAID\AAR1210 Then I used n-lite to create an ISO image from the installation directory c:\2K3_FILES (again, you can call this folder whatever you want). I burned the ISO to CD, booted and let me tell you when it saw my hard drive it was truly a wonderful sight. I was at it all day before I finally got it working. You could also use ISO BUSTER to extract the boot image from your original Windows CD, then use Nero to create a new boot CD using the extracted image and the adding all the files and folders in c:\2K3_FILES to the CD. That would work too.