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Windows XP/2000 - [Fixed] Alienware hard disk boot problem posted in the Operating Systems forums; Do they charge you for accessing drivers and downloads on their support site?? Or is that just for "live Support". You don't need a live chat session-- you just need ...

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Do they charge you for accessing drivers and downloads on their support site?? Or is that just for "live Support". You don't need a live chat session-- you just need to log on and download files.

I am afraid Iam not an expert on RAID arrays ... so maybe you'd be better of with Garhar or Madgamer.


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Hi Markey,

Try these Via VT6420 Serial ATA RAID Controller 220d Driver Download


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Thx will give it a go :-)
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Originally Posted by GaRHaR
Right i managed to download the above and have my Raid driver disk now thanks to GaRHar above, But now it is not detecting my hard drive after that stage of windows XP installation. It states "It cannot be found please make sure all wires are secure" which they defo are :-(

The hard drive is a Seagate ST380819AS 80GB SATA NCQ 7200rpm,
This was bought off ebay a few days ago to replace my faulty hard drive but will not detect i have used Seagate disc wizard and a number of other programs without luck is there something i am doing wrong ???

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Hrmmm...
Are you pushing the F6 button at the start of windows install?


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Yes buddy it then asks me for my raid disk which i have done another copy of thanks to yourself, I select the xp version goes to windows setup then say Windows could not detect a Storage device press F3 to restart ?
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Hrmmm....perhaps it's the wrong driver? *hits head on back room wall*


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