DVD Driver Issues

[A_Wild_SkyBear]

I'm trying to install windows 7 on my computer after I replaced the two Samsung 840 Evo SSD's that originally had windows 7 installed on them in raid 0. Now all the hardware is exactly the same so here's my issu . I popped in the windows 7 disk into the driv . The motherboard boots into the DVD drive and brings me to the windows installation screen. After I click "Install Windows" it loads for a few seconds to bring up an error message telling me that I am missing important CD/DVD drivers. I found this strange as it had to read from the windows disk in the first place to even show this screen. So I went online and grabbed every driver I would need for the motherboard and the DVD drive, right down to the chipset. Then put them into a USB and popped it into my build. When the message popps up telling me I have the option to scan for drivers I click that and it tells me it could find nothing. Then I go to browse and the computer says the USB is empty. I know the drivers are there but they won't show.

I don't know what is going on as the first time I installed windows on this machine this never happened.

If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. I have no clue what's going on anymore.

[toggleguy]

I had a similar problem a while back, it turned out that i had a faulty dvd drive, so i got it RMA'd and after it worked perfectly.

[Godlygamer23]

RMA the optical drive.

[Robin88]

you need the SATA/RAID drivers for your RAID array, go to your motherboard manufacturers website and download the pre-installation RAID driver, extract and copy the driver to a USB flash drive and plug it into your PC, and when it asks for that driver, navigate to your USB drive and select it, and it should allow you to install like normal.

[A_Wild_SkyBear]

you need the SATA/RAID drivers for your RAID array, go to your motherboard manufacturers website and download the pre-installation RAID driver, extract and copy the driver to a USB flash drive and plug it into your PC, and when it asks for that driver, navigate to your USB drive and select it, and it should allow you to install like normal.

I thought I downloaded them and the post shows that it recognizes the raid as a driv . Its strange but I'll give it another shot and tell you the result .

[Robin88]

I thought I downloaded them and the post shows that it recognizes the raid as a driv . Its strange but I'll give it another shot and tell you the result .

Ah, I see. I am probably wrong then if the drives are showing up in the drive selection screen, but still, test it anyway and see what happens.

And also, which SATA port are you using for the DVD drive? Are you using the built in Intel/AMD SATA ports or any secondary ports that are from add-in chips? If it's a USB DVD drive, are you using USB2 or USB3? If you're using USB3 then switch back to USB2, USB3 has some weird issues with booting Windows, so try switching to see if that helps.

[A_Wild_SkyBear]

Fixed! The problem was a mix of two things. First off the motherboard manual aks that a Raid 0 array be used in Sata ports 4&5. Then I tried using the updated drivers drom the gigabyte website but to no luck. I tried using the disk that came with the motherboard (last resort) and the os couldn't read anything from it. The problem was that I needed to use another computer to grab all the files from the disk, then put them onto a USB. The scanning for drivers wouldn't work, so I had to fish around for the driver for the raid controller. Oddly enough it was hidden in a folder for AHCI, but the driver was for a raid array.

Thank you everyone for your help!