Intel Communities: Message List - Windows 7 drivers/support for 82801ER RAID controller

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 — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:10:12 GMT

I'm too running into the issue with Windows 8. Fortunately, I'm installing it on a computer I don't really use anymore and I don't mind wiping all content on the drives. So my issue is that I'm trying to disable the RAID drive completely and use the hard drives as just normal SATA drives; I thought that this would allow me to install them without having to go through that problem.

Here's the deal though, I went into the Storage Manager and told it to remove them both from RAID (erasing data... which was fine). However, it's still giving me issues because of the RAID. If I disable the RAID in BIOS, I don't have the drives show up at all. I realize this is probably just me missing something, so I'm hoping someone can help me out here - in a typical BIOS, how would I disable RAID and get the drives to just show up in SATA? I know every BIOS is slightly different, but what should I be looking for? I know that the drives will likely need to be formatted again - is their some sort of utility that I should run before Windows 8? I assumed Windows 8 could format them (previous versions of Windows could) but it won't do me any good if they don't show up at all.

I guess the other thing I might be missing is in the way the drives are hooked up internally. Are there cables that I should be switching internally to get them to run as normal SATA instead of off the RAID? I wasn't thinking there would be, but honestly I'm not ultra familiar with RAID setups (I'm pretty computer-literate past that, but I've not really messed with RAIDs a whole lot).

So... any help you can get is very much appreciated!

Thanks!

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, 11 Dec 2011 12:20:20 GMT

Hi,

I tried to use the utility to create the driver files to a floppy disk. Unfortunately I could not get the tool to work. I keep getting various errors about not supported structure. I tried formatting the disk couple of times, but no help there. I even tried mapping a network folder as A:, but that didn't help either. Would somebody be so kind as to put the files up somewhere for a little while so I could give Win8 a try on my old PC. Thanks.

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

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:30:14 GMT

dlewisfl, tanks!

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

scdhernandez@hotmail.com — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:57:48 GMT

Excelente!!! despues de dias sin exito, encontre tu post y funciona a la perfeccion

¿por que intel no pone esto en la placa D875PBZ?

te felicito y mil gracias, ya estaba a punto de rendirme

instalacion exitosa windows 7 32 bits en mb intel d875pbz raid 0 de 1 tb 4 gb ram

saludos

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

arshy2@hotmail.com — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:19:59 GMT

dlewisfl...after 8 hours of troubleshooting, your post saved me!!!!!!!!! Thank you....and then because of my graphics card, I spent another 3 hours diagnosing a framebuf BSOD error....but it's now working!!!!

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 )

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

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 29 May 2010 23:24:01 GMT

This is a little late but I was able to get RAID to work on my Dell XPS Dimension Gen 2. The drivers are not Windows 7 drivers, but they work. I downloaded the '32-bit Floppy Configuration Utility for Intel® Matrix Storage Manager version 5.5.0.1035' from the Intel site, located here:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=2101&DwnldID=15599&strOSs=44&OSFullName=Windows*%20XP%20Professional&lang=eng

After creating the floppy disk, I set up a RAID0 array using CTRL-I at boot time (since I installed two new drives) and booted from the Win 7 DVD. It looked like the install was going to hang as it sat on the Win 7 dove wallpaper for a few minutes with just a mouse pointer, but it eventually got going. When the installation started, it informed me it could not find the driver for the RAID controller and prompted to search for one. I put in the floppy and it showed one SATA RAID controller in the list. However, it showed the wrong one so I unchecked the box that limits the display to showing what Win 7 thinks is compatible. With the full list of controllers displayed, I picked the 82801ER and off it went, nice clean install with no problems.

FWIW, I have the latest BIOS installed (A06).

Hope this helps anyone still looking to put Win 7 on their XPS Dimension Gen 2 with RAID enabled. It's worth it.

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

webadmin@intel.com — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:07:37 GMT

Thanks, JimG. I'm on my way.