Just tried installing the Corporate version of XP on my machine (A7V133 which incorporates the Promise Fasttrak100 controller). I have two IBM 75GXP hdds in RAID0, no bad sectors. Running latest BIOS, 1005A,
I tried upgrading from Windows 98SE - install died half way through, giving" unable to read data from drive C" bluescreens then crashing.
Using either the CD or winnt.exe/Smartdrv DOS install trick doesn't work - set-up just won't detect the RAID array - I've tried F6 and given it the Fasttrak100 Win2k driver, and it still won't detect any partitions.
Thinking I'd finally figured it out, I hooked up a spare 20gb HDD to the Via IDE controller - detected fine, but when Setup was beginning it bluescreened.
Does anybody have any ideas? Really stressing me out, since there's no
logical explanation.
All the best, tia.