[HELP ME~!] SATA vs. Windows

OK,

So I just got my brand new 74gb raptor shipped to me yesterday. So I eagerly pop the bad boy's box open, and pop it insite the case, connect all cables, etc. and boot up.

I get to the point where there is an option with fasttrak to create an array, so I do that, and it is all reading the drive fine. I go to bios and the drive's array is there under boot devices. Now I plop in a windows CD, boot up, and it says it can't find any harddrives. WTF?

So, I tried putting the promise drivers on a floppy and inserting them when it asks if you wish to install 3rd party RAID drivers, still no deal. I made a CD with windows on it, and integrated the drivers in to that. I saw it loading the promise drivers as it loaded everything on the blue screen. Still doesn't see it.

Any clue how I can get this freakin thing to work?

Specs:

AMD 64 3500
1GB corsair pc3200
6800 GT
ASUS a8v deluxe

Halp!

Ok, you have one hard drive, correct? Why are you creating an array? And did you slipstream/floppy the RAID drivers, or the SATA drivers? They might be the same, not sure, but you definitely need to make sure you're getting your SATA drivers on there.

I had the same problem, you need to install your sata drivers with a floppy at some point at the startup, at least thats what I had to do.

Also, If your motherboard came with a driver cd, the sata drivers will probably be on there.

I agree with 'Ix', as long as your Mobo is SATA capable, you just had to connect the SATA cable to your Mobo and that is it ====> load-up the OS... When you say array, that means 2 or more equal and same Hard-drives that you are configuring in RAID set-up and when you say you "pop it in" and loading OS, sounds like your Raptor is the only Hard-drive.... Are you talking about partitioning??

when windows setup starts you have to hit F6 to install a 3rd party driver for the sata controller, windows doesn't know anything about them until you give it that info, and it has to be done from that menu.

CandyMan knows it all.. ( just playing. )

But yea windows doesn't have any drivers for sata drives so you must add the drivers before windows will see the hard drives.

you have to use floppy drive because windows does not have drivers for SATA