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Trying to Dual Boot inspiron 1721 with win 7 64 bit
Hello all,
I've got an Inspiron 1721 with vista 32 bit. I've partitioned the hdd with the intention to put win 7 64 bit on the new partition. When I place the win 7 dvd in and start up, it starts to load the OS, but when it gets to install and I choose custom install, there is no hdd shown, not even the main c drive. It asks for drivers to be installed?? can anybody point me in the right direction to either the correct drivers or how to get round this. The hdd is raid 2+0. Any help is appriciated
Thanks
amit
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October 24th, 2010 11:00
These drivers will work
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-68363.html
You'll need these to get the RAID array recognized at bootup (they should work if you put the extracted files on a flash drive, press F6 when indicated, and install them into the real mode install setup).
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October 24th, 2010 05:00
Hi Amitsharma2010,
Go to Downloads on the main Support site and locate the RAID drivers for installing the OS. They should be labeled pre-OS install or something like that. When you start the installation, you should see a prompt to install the RAID drivers. You'll need either a floppy diskette or flash drive to install them.
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October 24th, 2010 10:00
Hi
Thnks for the quick reply. I've found the driver my laptop driver by entering in the service tag, but how do you download it from the dell wbsite. Everytime I try it wants to install the driver. I've managed to get the ftp site ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/SATA/R167809.EXE, but it doesn't open in IE or Firefox. Any suggestions please.
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Amit