XP Fundamentals, nVidia RAID, and you

Hello everyone,

I've been having some problems installing Windows XP Fundamentals on one of my computers due to its refusal to acknowledge my RAID array. Whats odd, is that no matter what I do it doesn't detect the nvraid.sys file, and as a result of this halts the install and reboots.

I've obviously put the files on a floppy disk, even using different floppies just in case one was bad, and when that failed I even slipstreamed the driver into the fundamentals disk. Yet it still fails to find the "nvraid.sys" file, even though its right there.

I've never encountered a problem like this, and my sadly, my Google skills have failed me. So really, at this point, I have no idea what exactly is causing this problem or even how I should begin to fix it.

I'm trying to install it on a system with a Biostar nVidia nForce550 with two 160 gigabyte SATA drives in a RAID 0 array.

Any ideas, comments, or suggestions?

 

I came across a FLP post where the individual had to remove the RAID array before FLP would install. Perhaps that's one of the limitations of the scaled down version of XP.