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Re: Windows 7 drivers/support for 82801ER RAID controller

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:51:37 GMT

Hi WaterOz

Every motherboard is different - and very often the BIOS too..

Best guess is to find (or download) the manual for your motherboard, and follow the guidelines in there.

As for the drives - you could remove one of the drives - so you're no longer in RAID setup.

(you will still have to change the settings in BIOS though).

If it's IDE hard drives - remember to set the dip switch to master (or CS - cable select).

Wish you luck

Message was edited by: steyrs

Re: Windows 7 drivers/support for 82801ER RAID controller

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:38:20 GMT

Hi there blend.

Here you go - I've uploaded the driver files to megaupload

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IRBK6D51

Let me know if it fails to work

Re: Windows 7 drivers/support for 82801ER RAID controller

webadmin@intel.com — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:58:23 GMT

Installed Windows 7 recently.

The motherboard is an Abit IS7 with 82801ER RAID controller.

Followed dlewisfl' instructions - downloaded the drivers that he linked to.

Booted with my Windows 7 DVD - and after loading the RAID drivers - was able to see all my previous partitions under XP.

Deleted my boot partition but wasn't able to install Windows 7

Rebooted - and booted the Windows 7 DVD once again - chose the correct RAID driver - and now I was able to install Windows 7 on my previous XP partition.

Voila!

Everything works - and I am a happy camper ;-)

Definitely worth it - give it a try! (if you are worried about your current partitions/files - backup is probably a good way to go - better safe than sorry )