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How can I boot Windows from a drive or RAID set connected to a Silicon Image controller?

April 26, 2017boot connected controller drive image raid Silicon Windows

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How can I boot Windows from a drive or RAID set connected to a Silicon Image controller?

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In order to boot from a SATA drive or RAID set attached to a Silicon Image controller, you must add the driver for the controller when prompted during Windows setup installation so the OS bootstrap process can load the driver to access the attached drives or RAID set during boot. Windows setup prompts with something like “Press F6 to install SCSI/RAID controller driver” Setup only checks the floppy diskette for drivers. To create a driver diskette, download and extract the driver contents from Support Copy the extracted contents to the top level folder of a formatted diskette. Be sure to get the type of driver that matches your BIOS. Get a SATARAID or SATARAID5 driver if you have RAID BIOS or IDE/nonRAID driver if you have “SATALink”, IDE BIOS. Some of the newer drivers have a multi-level structure to support multiple OS variants. If you have problems loading the driver from the driver diskette, make sure the extracted contents on the diskette match the locations specified in the txtse