I recently decided to play around with a RAID setup on my EP45-UD3P but for the life of me nothing is working. When using the ICH10R (yellow) in RAID mode in the bios and the Gigabyte onboard (purple) disabled I create a new raid volume from two Western Digital 500Gb drives (same models). Everything goes fine here.
When I start to install Vista and I get to the drive selection screen my raid volume is there. I then "Load Driver" from a Western Digital 320Gb Passport USB HDD and the driver shows up in the list just fine. Hitting ok and the Vista install does it's green little loading bar and goes back to the drive selection screen without complaining. I then create a new partition out of this raid volume and format it. But when I hit next to continue on the install spits back "Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation." This is where I've hit a brick wall.
I've used the drivers from the install CD provided with the motherboard, I've downloaded the drivers from Gigabytes website and used those, and I've gone directly to Intel's website and grabbed the latest drivers there as well. It's always the same result. I've also verified time and time again that I'm using the correct 64-bit versions of them as well.
Any advice?
I suppose that I should note I've also attempted using the Gigabyte onboard chipset in RAID mode. When I do the raid volume doesn't show up when the drive selection screen first appears. Using the drivers on the install CD they provide Vista reports that the drivers are for a JMicron JMB36X Controller. The manual says it should be showing up as a "Gigabyte GBB36X Controller" so I'm guessing it's some rebranded junk. And of course Gigabyte provides no drivers for this chipset on it's website.
When I start to install Vista and I get to the drive selection screen my raid volume is there. I then "Load Driver" from a Western Digital 320Gb Passport USB HDD and the driver shows up in the list just fine. Hitting ok and the Vista install does it's green little loading bar and goes back to the drive selection screen without complaining. I then create a new partition out of this raid volume and format it. But when I hit next to continue on the install spits back "Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation." This is where I've hit a brick wall.
I've used the drivers from the install CD provided with the motherboard, I've downloaded the drivers from Gigabytes website and used those, and I've gone directly to Intel's website and grabbed the latest drivers there as well. It's always the same result. I've also verified time and time again that I'm using the correct 64-bit versions of them as well.
Any advice?
I suppose that I should note I've also attempted using the Gigabyte onboard chipset in RAID mode. When I do the raid volume doesn't show up when the drive selection screen first appears. Using the drivers on the install CD they provide Vista reports that the drivers are for a JMicron JMB36X Controller. The manual says it should be showing up as a "Gigabyte GBB36X Controller" so I'm guessing it's some rebranded junk. And of course Gigabyte provides no drivers for this chipset on it's website.