Windows Installer Can't read partitions

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nzkronic

6 posts

Wannabe Geek

#69027 1-Oct-2010 23:19

Evening all,

Having a little bit of trouble trying to fix up my flatmates computer,(have formatted HDD) after booting from a windows vista and win 7 DVD It does not seem to "find a suitable partition " for the install.

The comp is setup with a RAID 0 stripe to make a 140 Gig drive, I have managed to install Ubuntu 10.04 which reads this space fine and have manged to resize Ubuntu Partition to 20 gigs. (Using live CD)

Have tried leaving the remaining space as empyy and also tried formatting it as NTFS. but still no luck detecting any drives with win installer.

Figureed there is something up with the RAID controller, but odd as Ubuntu reads the full HDD.

I also have no access to the BIOS as the password was not passed on from the previous owner, (figured if i have access to this i may be able to turn the RAID off) so any ideas how to do this (have removed battery from motherboard with no luck, not sure if this is because it has a backup Bios

Mother board is:
gigabyte ga-k8ns pro

Any help is would be much appreciated no fussed about what is stored on HDD already so anything can be wiped.

b0untypure1

1427 posts

Uber Geek
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#388509 5-Oct-2010 22:00

for your RAID setup, a driver would have been installed to operate the RAID array.
when your computer starts it should show all your hard drives, and what type of raid array they are configured to.
in my case, the first thing i see is my motherboard brand, then it says all my raid information (this is before windows loads or attemps to install) it should be a hotkey to enter the RAID config utility. for example mine says "push control+ F to enter raid configuration"
yours might be the same combo or not.
then once in the raid config you can disable the raid and attempt to install your windows 7 from there.

nzkronic

6 posts

Wannabe Geek

#388569 6-Oct-2010 01:08

thanks for the help, did not seem to find the section where I could disable the Raid controller using the Raid config when i looked earlier.

The bios setup was blocked by a password which I did not know, ended up just taking the battery out and disconnecting MB from power to reset this. Turned of the Raid controller in the BIOS and now the hard drives are read seperatley. May have another go at trying to create a RAID array to improve the perfomance a little, already installed OS so just a bit reluctant to wipe again.

b0untypure1

1427 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 18

#388779 6-Oct-2010 15:29

to find the raid drivers, it will be on the manufacturers website of your motherboard. however drives need to be formatted prior to a raid setup