quick question about windows 7 builds

I'm finally upgrading my computer to windows 7 and I was under the
impression that I did not have to install raid drivers from a floppy during
the initial windows 7 install like I did with XP but when I go to my
motherboard's website and select my OS to download drivers it gives me the
RAID drivers with just that explination. I am assuming that this is a catch
all for anyone running XP but it has me concerned, will I have to find a
floppy to start the install?

 

Never mind.. I found where I can load it from a flash drive.. but I do have
another question, my motherboard (MSI K9A2 Platinum) only has drivers for
one of the raid controllers... should I assume that windows 7 has the
promise raid controller already installed on the disk? I asked promise and
they had no idea, but assumed that this particular controller was no longer
supported.

 

Try breaking that up into smaller parts.

Which motherboard? Post a link to your motherboard's website. Is RAID
working?

 

RAID's definitely working because I can see it in the bios... but I've hit
another snag as it won't load from a SATA CD drive (says it's missing
drivers) and I don't have a older drive handy...
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/K9A2 Platinum.html#/?div=Driver&os=Win7 64

 

Before you start a project like that, you have the option to run the
Upgrade Advisor and see what it says.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/upgrade-advisor

During the install process itself, it is possible for an installer
to use BIOS calls to access hardware storage devices. That is why
sometimes, you can have an installer process work, and yet upon a
reboot, the OS won't start (because when the OS runs, it stops using
BIOS calls and uses the drivers the OS owns).

See what the Upgrade Advisor reports first. The Upgrade Advisor
may require .NET libraries, and the last couple of times I used
advisors, I needed to do additional downloads to meet the requirements
of running it. The Upgrade Advisor also doesn't support older
Windows OSes (which is stupid), so if say, you had a Windows 98 machine
and wanted to query whether the computer could run Windows 7,
the Advisor could not help. You need a relatively recent OS, to
get the Advisor to work.

Paul

 

Well the urge to upgrade to windows 7 was prompted by my main system drive
failing after 5 years of service. I guess I could install XP first then load
everything and run the advisor then just do a reinstall with Windows 7...
Thanks for the link and advice, I'll definitely look into it!