P370EM Windows 8 not detecting RAID 0 Hard Drive

I just got my new Clevo and I'm giving my old P370EM to a friend. I just reformatted the hard drive and now I'm trying to install Windows 8 but it's not detecting the Hard Drive. It asks me for drivers without telling me what the drivers are for . I worked out it was the RAID0 drivers when I noticed the disk isn't listed. The RAID and Hard Drive appear fine as they are working on the boot disk I used to format the hard drive in the first place. The disk is set to GPT and I'm booting in UEFI mode. Going into the command line in Windows 8 setup and using diskpart and list disk says that there are no fixed disks.

From some looking online I understand that pointing it at the drivers for the raid should get it working however when I bought this it had Windows 7 installed and my clevo CD has windows 7 drivers on it.

Can someone point me at the appropriate drivers to get this working ? And ideally the latest windows 8 drivers to install once I've got things going.

Thanks

 

The regular intel raid drivers should be present but you can get them straight from intel if you want to give them a shot.

 

Thanks. Grabbed the last Chipset driver from Clevel and the latest RST driver from Intel and will give them a shot.

If these still fail to work would you have any insight on what might be going wrong to cause this?

 

I would try formatting them again, I take it you formatted them while they were in the array?

 

Yes. Was doing a secure wipe since there was business information on them, and the software I used recommends that drives that were used in RAID 0 or 1 be wiped in RAID.

I'll give this a go and try doing a manual format with a linux disk next then. Won't that stop Windows 8 setting up the Recovery / MSR / EFI partitions though ? Or is there a windows rescue disk you could recommend that will handle that properly for me (preferably one with a little customization, I need to leave an extra 32 GB partition for Rapid Start) ?

 

Try breaking the array, re-creating it and seeing if the installer will see the un-formatted volume.

 

It turned out to just be the RAID driver. Guess the included one just wasn't new enough. Thanks for your help. Is there an online copy of the manual with the driver installation order around somewhere ? Don't want to bollocks everything up after all this.

 

Chipset then vga and the rest don't matter I'm glad it's sorted.