SP3 will not install on Raid

[swaro2000]

Has anyone also been able to install windows SP3RC1 on a PC with stripped Hard drives?

Installation Disk consists of XP pro SP3 RC1, IE7, .NET3.5, latest Bâshrat drivers among other switchless apps. Disk was slipstreamed using nlite 1.41.

During installation you get an error stating 'Setup did not find any hard drives installed', press F3 to quit. I tried mirroring the drives but got the same error message. I disabled Raid in Bios & the installation with the same XP disk seems to be going ok. As of this posting I have another 10min before the installation completes.

Has anyone else seen this?

[swaro2000]

Installation has finnished. This post is from the PC the installation was done on. So it seems SP3_RC1 has a problem with stripped &/or mirrored (RAID) drives

[Mt.Dew]

I am writing this posting on a SP3v3264 install with raid drivers so my Raptor's run in RAID 0. What I did was, make an nlite install disk that has my key and my SATA/RAID drivers slipstreamed. Then, I took the new image, copied the contents to my hard-drive(F:\XPSP3), extracted sp3v3264 to the folder, then integrated SP3v3264 using command line F:\XPSP3\i386\update\update /s:F:\XPSP3. Then created a bootable .iso from that folder. Rebooted my system, did a fresh install. No troubles at all with finding the RAID during install. Also, I did not have any other SATA drives installed besides the ones in RAID. I plugged them in after the OS was done installing.

NVIDIA STRIPE 138.49G

Partition Partition Type Drive Start Offset Partition Length

#1 (Active) NTFS C: (Raptor-Raid) 0 MB 141808 MB

OS Service Pack Service Pack 3, v.3264

OS Installation Date 12/24/2007

Edited January 3, 2008 by Mt.Dew