I haven't loaded the Win8 dev preview on an M6600 or virtual machine. You have the correct driver, and may need to use a legacy driver if you are using VMware workstation 8.

"I haven't loaded the Win8 dev preview on an M6600 or virtual machine. You have the correct driver, and may need to use a legacy driver if you are using VMware workstation 8."

Thanks Warren,

Now that I've looked closer there are two RST drivers, one says pre-OS and is just of OS. What's the difference between them?

The thing about the "Pre-OS" driver is the name makes it sound like it might do some kind of disk initialization. I just worried I might turn the drives into mush and end up with a long recovery process.

Also I not actually installing in a VM, just using a .vhd file rather than using a actual disk partition then I can dual boot between W7 and W8. BTW I was able to install Windows 7 SP into a .vhd this way without any problems, but the installer for Windows 7 SP is supposed to support Advanced Technology Drives.

Dan

The pre-OS is a subset of the standard RST driver in that it only contains the basic drivers needed when pre-loading them. If you are looking for just the basic drivers then you will get the same thing from either of them.

These drivers do not contain any hard drive initialization processes. They are drivers for the mass storage controller.

Thanks Warren,

That's really helps... I didn't know that AF drives existed 'till I got my m6600. I'll get back after I do the install with how it worked out.