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RAID Controller not supported with XP Pro???
Tried clean install of WinXP on the 20GB RAID partition. I do *NOT* press F6 and load the HPT370 drivers, because that always freezes the setup and I know XP should have HPT370 drivers built in. The DOS part of setup completes but after it reboots the computer just freezes right after the BIOS information screen

8PE667 Ultra and RAID card not playing nice
I get the following error when trying to load the raid drivers on pressing F6: File txtsetup.oem caused an unexpected error (1024) at line 1747 in Any help with this will be much appreciated as I need to access some of the data on the raid 5 array which did not backup correctly. Thanks in advance "If you always

Enabling ICH5R SATA ctrlr in RAID mode on an IC7-G???
You will need to do the F6 driver install during XP installation IF your SATA drive is on the Silicon Image RAID, OR you are using the GigaRaid controller (aka ITE). There are 2 separate drivers, and you can install both at the same time - in two motions. If you are not using either of these you will not need to.

Cannot install raid drivers via F6
I would do it the MS way and not the dell way.........do you have a driver for that raid? Hit F6 at the initial booting sequence when it tells you to....and feed that driver in. See if that will "find" the disks without first loading the dell thingy If at first you don't succeed.....start over and reinstall.

Can not configure NIC = no domain
Greetings, Building a new box with W2K, A7v133 and 2 WD hard drives not Raid. I put one on the Via primary and the second on the Promise primary. I loaded cruised by the F6 so I had to load the Promise drivers from Device manager and it shows the SCSI controller and the additional hard drive as working.

raid 0 and xp not starting
If RAID is to be the OS,disconnect the solo,press F6 while booting to xp cd,install xp.You'll find RAID 0 would be the best for the OS,see the specs:http://www.intel. com/performance/desktop/platform_technologies/storage_performance.htm "NiteLife" wrote: I have installed 3 hard drives: set them up as 1 to boot to

logo_saver in VESA 800x600 mode - syscons kbd freeze
Still Learning and Always gratefull for the help "meterguru" wrote: Trying to install Win XP 64 with 4 SATA drives installed but when I get to screen asking to press F6 key to install third party drivers Windows just continues on then finally states I have not hard drives. Changed key boards but still doesn't

New Raid 0 Install From CyberPower XP Pro Recovery CD Not Working
As soon as the first disk begins to load, you will see a prompt that tells you to "Press F6 if you have a bootable device driver to load". Typically, with a RAID controller, you must do this. Assuming that you have previously run the hardware portion of the RAID setup and have a RAID volume created, then you will

creating an F6 RAID disk question.
I decided to go with an Adaptec 1200A RAID card instead of using the on-board RAID. snip < I pressed F6 and installed the correct array drivers. Then When I get to the partitioning part, XP recognizes the drives as one big drive also. I created the partition, formatted and prceeded to install XP.

RAID drives not found
If your HDD's are not formatted, you'll do it later from XP setup. Then ,( i assume you'll install XP) - insert XP cd, restart and boot from CD. Setup will begin. at begginning, when prompted, press F6(when says press F6 if you want to install third party RAID drivers). Then setup will continue and after a while it

Need advice: Install RAID drivers or not
The current OS is WindowME and I proceeded to install WindowsXP; everything went well until I rebooted and pressed F6 to install the needed Promise drivers for XP. The drivers used are those found at PROMISE for my GA-7DXR motherboard(on board raid) since Giga-byte has not released there own.

Installation with RAID
Install the CD, boot the server from the CD and do the F6 to load the raid controller. It loads a bunch of drivers and eventually asks for your Raid floppy. Remove the second nic and you are guaranteed it is not jamming you up. A successful installation of SBS is illustrated by clicking on the start button.

F6 key not recognized during XP64 install of RAID host drivers
Mandrake 8.2: Works like a champ for me and I have the same RAID controller that you do. Not booting from CD sounds like something else altogether. **** Windows 2000 Hit F6 at the beginning of the install in order to load the drivers for the HPT-370 prior to install (WindowsXP doesn't need this step).

RAID Controller died... new controller will not boot hard drive...
You should only run into boot problems with software raid. As for power supplies, you're right, they never go bad. My 2500 has not two but three. out there) It drove me mental trying to get that one working. just bung the disk in boot the machine F6 to load the dell raid drivers and off you go redundancy,

XP install corrupted my RAID drives!
I would love to try loading XP without the Intel RAID driver on my system. SATA should always work since it has BIOS support... provided the BIOS options are correctly set.........and certainly for those with only ICH5, loading the F6 RAID driver does not make logical sense at all !!! However, I do not have the

Not getting success with RAID set up
Third, if you have a newer keyboard with a "F Lock" key, ensure that it is active so F6 transmits as F6. RAID 1 Support Yes, the ICH5R does support RAID 1, but only if the BIOS does. Chaintech stated that at time of press, they did not have the development overhead to implement RAID 1. Instead of stating it as a

New Raid 0 Install From CyberPower XP Pro Recovery CD Not Working
Hello, The driver file hptpro.sys which is enclosed in "WIN XP" folder out of High point Tech's RAID driver collectoins is not loading during windows XP professional install. When you press F6 during windows XP driver install requests and, specify the drivers included in the floppy for RAID controller,

SBS2003 does not see Promise Fasttrack Raid 1
I need to load RAID drivers and after hitting F6, I realize that it's expecting a floppy drive? Is this for REAL? I can only use a floppy to do this? This server is floppyless as most Those are not a rarity. Workaround 2 could consist of adding the driver to a slipstreamed CD. Best greetings from Germany Olaf.

ICH5 SATA base driver
For typical PCs, the F6 key is not needed during Setup. But for those computers that boot from something other than the "standard" IDE controller, it might be needed. Many new computers boot from SCSI or SATA drives, or from a RAID setup. Drivers for many of these devices are not on the WinXP CD-ROM,

Inaccessible_Boot_Device. Say What?
Thank you for the info on RAID IDE, but how do I introduce these drivers to WIN2K during installation? I want to install it on one of these drives which it can't yet Then boot from the Win2k CD, press F6 when it says so on the status bar, insert the floppy and press [return], select the correct driver and press