Comments on: How to Enable Intel ICH RAID After Installing Windows Vista

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:29:02 +0000

Perfect. I was just about to sit down and re-install Windows. Now I can go and have lunch with the family!

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:28:46 +0000

Amazing!

I got a bsod after trying to enable raid on my intel dg33tlm motherboard. I already hade the storage manager and iastor.sys installed since I hade the controller in sata mode.

So I only applied the registry hack and voila! it worked like a charm.
Thanks alot!

By: DrNathan

DrNathan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:58:55 +0000

Argiris,

Glad to hear it. There’s nothing like getting your computer up and running again.

If I am ever in Thessaloniki (yes, I know where it is on a map) I will be sure to look you up!

By: Argiris

Argiris — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:52:13 +0000

Dr. Nathan, you saved my life!

Well, not literally but set me free from the pain/agony and frustration that I’ve been facing for 2 days now.

I was JUST about the re-format and start over, when your registry “hack” did the trick.

If you ever come by Thessaloniki, Greece I’ll buy you dinner! :o)

Thanks a lot!

By: Harito

Harito — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:01:06 +0000

Many thanks for this workaround.

By: torin

torin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:04:24 +0000

amazing, thank you

By: DaveK

DaveK — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:43:13 +0000

Thank you!!

By: Patchu

Patchu — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:47:43 +0000

Oh god this guide was a lifesaver. I didn’t bother reading up on it beforehand, assuming it’d be fairly straightforward. Ended up wasting about 4 hours trying stuff like running the windows 7 repair utility on the installation disk, trying to load the RAID drivers into the windows setup and trying a repair after that, and other such things to no avail.

Thanks a bunch!!

By: Joey

Joey — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:21:35 +0000

Worked perfectly for my Windows 2003 Server installed under IDE on a TYAN S7002 motherboard with ICH10R. Thanks!!!

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:08:30 +0000

i spent 4 HOURS looking for a solution, THANK YOU .. YOU ARE GOD!!!!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:22:36 +0000

Peregrinus – could not get Raid ‘on’ but sorted thanks to simple change in registry. You have saved me a lot of time……cheers.

I am running Windows 7 64 and GA-EX58 UD5 MoBo and was trying to get Raid 1 storage drives set up……

Thanks

By: AB

AB — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:17:42 +0000

you are a genius!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:24:59 +0000

Thanks so much, this solved my problems with Windows 7 64-bit. Installed my windows with the harddrive set to IDE by mistake. Installed Linux but the bootloader failed.

Worked out that the bootloader required the harddrive to be set to SATA RAID in the bios which in turn broke windows!

Good work.

Thanks again!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:29:13 +0000

Thank you so much DrNathan and all the posters. This worked like a charm and saved a huge headache of the endless toil of windows updates and backing up. I actually found this easier than dealing with the RAID setup during the OS install.

Cheers!
Nathan

By: DrNathan

DrNathan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:25:49 +0000

Jim,

Thanks for the follow-up, I am glad you got it worked out.

When you say that the driver was incorrect, you mean the driver provided by RAIDFix? If so, can you provide a link to the driver you used?

I was pretty positive I had the most recent driver, but if not, I want to get it squared away asap.